[mou] Re: [mnbird] Sax Zim thought

[Alt, Mark]

I agree. A stopped in the restaurant in Cotton and had a very good pastie,
then when the waitress asked if I was a birder, I had my binos on, she asked
why so many owls around?  WE ended up in a discussion with about 7 people
there about why the owls were here and what the names of the big fluffy grey
one is and the ones with the big black stripes on their head were.  At this
time, we had not seen any of the "Big Black striped ones", so we were
humbled at them claiming they were all over, you can't miss them.  For the
afternoon, that proved to be true.

Mark Alt
Manager of Project Management
Supply Chain Transformation Office
Best Buy Co., Inc.
Mark.Alt@bestbuy.com 
(w) 612-291-6717
(Cell) 612-803-9085
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Subject: [mou] Re: [mnbird] Sax Zim thought

Shaun's comments about wearing binoculars into restaurants and gas 
stations, and also trying to boost the local economy in the Sax-Zim area 
are very important.  And there's more than one reason to let locals know 
you're a birder.  Not only can we give people a good impression of us, and 
let them know that it's in their own self-interest to maintain bird 
habitat, but also we can get good tips about where birds are.  Once when I 
was in the grocery store in Meadowlands, and mentioned to the cashier that 
I was there birding, she told me about a Great Gray Owl that had been 
frequenting her property, and gave me precise directions.  And several 
times when I've been in the gas/station-coffee shop, people sitting around 
have started asking questions and telling their own owl stories.  It's a 
great way to build bridges that will help us all in the long run.  And it's 
good for the birds as well.

Laura Erickson
Duluth, MN

NOTE address change: bluejay@lauraerickson.com

Producer, "For the Birds" radio program
<http://www.lauraerickson.com/>

There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of 
birds.  There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of 
nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the
winter.

                                 --Rachel Carson


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