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I absolutely love Lesley the Bird Nerd........and she even has the humility to call herself a bird nerd. I'm not one to go on bird watching expeditions, but I love observing them while in the field for other reasons, and I love watching Lesley's videos, letting her do all the work, and learning from her experience and teaching. I would love to meet her if I had the opportunity. She's a bird celebrity.

I already knew that.

I learned bird language. Specifically crow. My ex used to speak it all the time to me. CAW CAW CAW usually meant I need to fix something she broke. And that's a great shot of a Northern Flicker, @gigantor - I love those birds.

@BlackRockBigfootand @Huntsterthat IS a very entertaining video. There’s a connection to Sasquatch-study, too. I once went to a birders’ (aka birdwatchers or bird nerds’) conference where the professional ornithologist speaker welcomed all “amateur” or “citizen” birders to contribute their research. By keeping track of the birds they ID’d, including when, where, and what they were doing, they could add vital data to the scientists’ accumulated knowledge. AMATEUR OBSERVERS WELCOME. Does an opportunity like this exist for Sasquatch study? We know who the scientists are, like Meldrum, Sykes (?), Mayor and others. No doubt they are inundated with queries and reports from the most sincere, to the crazies and trolls. HOW CAN emails etc. be vetted to some degree by a trusted middle party (like some members of BFF) and then passed on to scientists? That would mean citizen researchers’ info gets noticed and can help the cause of finding Sasquatch proof. Our SSR already performs that function. @hiflierand others — you’ve already thought about this I’m sure. Lots of negative reasons exist why further work of distilling stuff from random people is fraught with difficulty. And the difference between the topics “bird populations in decline” and “studying Bigfoot” may be too great to make an analogy. But, hey, who says we can’t have more of a link-up between citizen researchers that could add to our knowledge? N