[mou] Pishing (or is it spishing)

[Chris Benson]

When my daughter was a baby I would pack her
up in a papoose and go birding with her.
When she would make baby noises the birds would
come in close for a better look.
Much better response than pishing,
I had the best looks I've ever had of such rarities as
Prairie Warbler and Summer Tanager,
not to mention all the more common birds.

So instead of pishing take a baby along,
from my experience it worked much better.

Looking forward to next spring when I'll have
a baby around to attract birds.

Chris Benson
Rochester
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pastor Al Schirmacher" <pastoral at princetonfreechurch.net>
To: <mnbird at lists.mnbird.net>; <mou-net at moumn.org>; <wisbirdn at lawrence.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 11:33 AM
Subject: [mou] Pishing (or is it spishing)


> How effective do you find pishing to be?
>
> Sometimes I think we pish just to keep ourselves busy while waiting for
the
> target bird to pop up - seems like we can go days without the desired
> response - then there are days like today, when casual pishing drew in
> Mourning, Golden-winged, Blue-winged, Chestnut-sided Warblers with little
> effort (latter three in same tree).
>
> Which leads to the questions of:  How much should we pish?  Are there
times
> when pishing should be avoided?
>
> Wondering while working on Sunday's message about prayer,
>
> Al Schirmacher
> Princeton, MN
> Mille Lacs & Sherburne Counties
>
>
>