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<p class="ydp952b0e8dMsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;">Hi All,</p>
<p class="ydp952b0e8dMsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;">Those of us who remember back to the first days of the
Bluetail stakeout recall a skittish bird, empty-handed birders and some angry
neighbors. Nancy Morrison stepped in and made changes in the stakeout design
and her approach had a method: address the bird’s needs first.</p>
<p class="ydp952b0e8dMsoNormal" style="">As Frank Caruso wrote to me, “Nancy<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 34, 40); background: white;"> </span><font size="3"><span style="line-height: 107%; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 34, 40); background: white;">certainly gets as much credit as possible for being the most
gracious of hostesses. She should also get credit for being an excellent
problem solver. She realized that the hordes of birders roaming around the
yards and neighborhood were negatively impacting the behavior of the bird and
some of the neighbors. She fixed the problem by keeping birders out of the
neighboring vacant lot. The bird then returned on a regular basis to her yard.
When that happened, she created the area where we saw the bird yesterday. That
resulted in increased reliability in seeing the bird and birders only parking
by her house and going into her yard. She totally solved all of the issues.</span>”</font></p>
<p class="ydp952b0e8dMsoNormal" style=""><font size="3">In the ensuing days the LFP Bluetail stakeout became
arg</font>uably, in the limited memory of Delia and me, a stakeout for the ages. It
didn’t hurt that this bird may actually hold the title of “World’s most
adorable bird.” We know it has a ton of competition, but it’s in the hunt for
sure.</p>
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<p class="ydp952b0e8dMsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;">Nancy has put her link to her blog which includes one movie
of the Bluetail which we thought was far superior to "The Godfather" or
even “Citizen Kane” and doesn’t take as much of your precious time. If anyone
hasn’t gone to this link and watched this movie, it is here:</p>
<p class="ydp952b0e8dMsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;">https://naturebynancy.zenfolio.com/blog/2022/3/red-flanked-bluetail---her-final-days-in-lake-forest-park</p>
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<p class="ydp952b0e8dMsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;">So thank you Nancy! Delia and I are standing and clapping,
here in our living room.</p>
<p class="ydp952b0e8dMsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;"><span> </span>And thanks to the enchanting
little blue-tailed bird from Asia—Good Luck!!! </p>
<p class="ydp952b0e8dMsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;">Ed Newbold and Delia Scholes</p>
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<p class="ydp952b0e8dMsoNormal" style="font-size: 16px;">PS. Still unresolved is how to monetize a stakeout. We can’t
in the future expect that every homeowner is going to be a brilliant, committed
Nature-lover who incidentally has control over her own schedule like Nancy. If we
can hold ourselves open to any ideas involving remuneration of hosts, it might
be to our advantage in the future. Duck hunters have lost some of the high
ground in recent times but their original idea of stepping up and making
themselves pay to enjoy their sport led to them to become an extraordinarily effective
group of conservationists. If we could give private landowners an incentive to
have rare birds on their land, birds and birders could both be the
beneficiaries in the long run.</p>
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