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Date Posted: 15:43:24 01/27/02 Sun
Author: Tim
Author Host/IP: dialup-bg-205-023.wcnet.org / 63.174.205.23
Subject: tNa ?

Other web lookers:

There is a certain uniqueness to the TNA. I believe this is again revealed
in the updated web site. You could write TNA as tNa, the Naturalist aspect
is paramount. Its not just birds, its not just conservation issues, its the
whole embrace of nature. What ever part or parts of nature love your heart,
the tNa has some one who shares your love. The expertise runs from "Gee, I
wish I knew" to "Gee, may I help you see". A sense of discovery awaits
around each bend. Those who have just recently passed on to be naturalists
in the heavens gave us good example. I remember spending a whole day with
Lou Campbell, he asked me to I.D. every bird I saw. At the end of the day he
told me I had a good eye and a poor imagination. He explained that when I
knew what I saw, I still looked harder to learn more. He taught me to never
stop learning. I am average at birding & at tree I.D. & at another myriad of
naturalist skills, but there are no bad days in nature, even if you see
nothing, or you miss the rerity everyone else saw. You never really get
"Your list", your list gets you. You're not taking, you're sharing.
Naturalists like Lou Campbell, Harold Mayfield, Miriam Bell, Doc Bill Smith,
Tom Anderson, John Stophlet, Jim & Isabelle Nessle, Neal & Bea Waterbury,
Myrtle Sarver, Lew Klewer, Steve Pollick, and all of the "et ceteras" have
given their knowledge freely. Tha same freedom has been shared with me by
Matt Anderson, Tom Kemp, Eric Durbin, Greg Lincks, Elliot Tramer, the
Shelcastles,Doris Stiffle and many others. I hope I've given a little bit
myself. I been corrected and criticized and questioned and praised, but I
still usually get time to only make two trips to the bird trail each spring,
one is for the birds, and the other is to visit with the birders. Steel
sharpens steel, and the best of this is in the TNA, perhaps there is more
"fun" elsewhere. Perhaps ther is a better blend of personalities. Perhaps
there is a gentler way. But I have never found snobbery in the TNA, though I
have found focus that can exclude the rest of the world in the joy of the
search. Don't confuse one for the other. One other silly aside. I have not
been a TNA member for several years, due to several financial and time
commitment crazies which have kept me from participating, yet the
relationships remain, and I don't even have the secret decoder ring, just a
mutual hunger to keep on learning. Perhaps the Rare Bird Alert should offer
"Have fun & good birdin'", to me the "have fun" was just the blessing I've
always understood.

Thanks for listening

Tim Haney (that guy with the poor imagination who birded @ Woodlawn some
years back).

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