Re: [Maine-birds] RE: Wild and in Color

It's hard to know just which people we will enjoy being around unless we reach out to folks we don't know well and find ways spend a little time with them - and inviting someone to join a birding outing is just about the easiest and most natural way to do that.  It is asking a lot of someone who at least at some times in her life has been treated badly b/c of her color to do the reaching.  Joe's right, we should make an extra effort to make people of color feel welcome to join us, and often an invitation is the easiest way to do that.  There will have to be thousands of invites like this before color has a chance of becoming a non-issue. 

As for including someone being just as bad as excluding them, whatever the reason - well, seems to me including always is better, and I usually learn something valuable from someone when I do that, but I may have more to learn than most.   ;-)

Best -

                         Alicia

On 11/11/2013 8:37 AM, Pete wrote:

I also thank you Susan. It was eye opening, but I disagree that we should include someone of color in our birding groups just because they are of color. It's just as bad as excluding them because of color. We should be including people because they are people we enjoy being around and maybe provide a new prospective or are better birders than we are (those are my favorite birding partners). I can't wait for color to be a non-issue!!!!!!

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On Nov 11, 2013, at 7:51 AM, Joe Scott <joescottbsn@hotmail.com> wrote:

Susan, thanks for sharing that article. As individuals, when we see a "colored" person at a group outing we can make sure she is not left of the periphery, that we make an effort to engage her. ...and maybe invite her along on one of the 2-3 person outings that most of us are on most of the time. 

Joe Scott

Chatham, NH

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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 06:36:02 -0500
Subject: Re: [Maine-birds] Biddeford area birds (Cackling Goose)
From: susanguare@gmail.com
To: darkfirefalcon@gmail.com
CC: maine-birds@googlegroups.com

In reference to your paranoid neighbor (and his charming language), I heard this guy interviewed on public radio a couple of days ago:

http://wildandincolor.blogspot.com/2011/10/birding-while-black-does-it-really.html

You should maybe invite him to come see your Fox Sparrows.  I'm sure your neighbor would love to meet him.

On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 5:22 PM, David Rankin <darkfirefalcon@gmail.com> wrote:

It being November yet still pleasant enough to consider venturing outside without 8 layers of clothing, I took to the field today in search of lingering and vagrant insectivores. Thoughts of wandering hirundinidae and tyrannus flycatchers propelled me onward, but the birds themselves remained elusive. Not all was in vain, as I did manage a few good birds:

Biddeford Pool hosted a flock of Horned Larks and Snow Buntings and a few American Tree Sparrows, but little else.

My street in Arundel hosted a few Fox Sparrows (one which earned me the ire of a paranoid neighbor, who kindly instructed me in a loud voice to "get the f*** out of here" and stop looking at his yard), a late Eastern Phoebe, Common Yellowthroat, Yellow Palm Warbler and Eastern Towhee.

The jetty at the end of Well's Harbor hosted a flock of Purple Sandpipers, Dunlin, Sanderlings and Black-bellied Plovers. The Well's Reserve had a single Belted Kingfisher, and a statistically significant number of Eastern Bluebirds (or so says ebird) but not much else of interest. 

Parson's Beach revealed a large flock of Black Scoters offshore, as well as a Common Goldeneye and a Common merganser, unusual to see in the ocean. A few Great Blue Herons lingered in the marsh nearby.

And finally, at Lord's Point in Kennebunk, a flock of Canada Geese loafing in the ocean at sunset today contained a CACKLING GOOSE.

Good Birding

David Rankin

Biddeford

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