[mou] Bloopers

[Adele Binning]

My favorite story of that sort is this: Once on a canoe trip with a  
bunch of botanists we were slowly paddling up the Wawiag River in the  
Quetico Provincial Park. This river feels like the one in African  
Queen....natural levees on each side with brush that obscures your  
sightline to what's behind the levees. Anyway, our three canoes were  
slowly, quietly padding on a still, hot day when the first canoe  
spotted a large, motionless figure among the alder on the levee. We  
were all alerted to it. 9 sets of eyes slowly drifted stealthily  
closer, whispering things like, "What is it?"  "A moose?" "I can't  
tell....but its looking at us, I think." When we got about 15 feet  
away, we suddenly and simultaneously realized it was Shan Walshe, the  
legendary Canadian botanist, dressed in a mosquito net hat and other  
protective clothing. It was very weird to realize that we had been  
stalking a wild animal that turned out to be a human.

Anyway, that's my story.
Adele Binning
St. Paul

On Jul 24, 2006, at 11:05 AM, Pastor Al Schirmacher wrote:

> Sometimes ID'ing a bit early leads to interesting bloopers:
>
> This morning Mark Junghans and I were birding the Prairie Wildlife  
> Drive portion of Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge near Princeton,  
> MN.  As we sighted the final pool,  I remarked about the commotion  
> in the water: "There's the loon family we missed earlier."
>
> Would have been a great call, except as we drew much nearer, the  
> loons morphed into otters.
>
> Sigh.
>
> Must admit I've never completed missed on the type of mammal before.
>
> How about the rest of you - ever humorously call too early or miss  
> one?
>
> Humbly submitted,
>
> Al Schirmacher
> Princeton, MN
> Mille Lacs & Sherburne Counties
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