Whitefish - thanks. I do know Whitefish Point and have an interesting story about it. I started banding saw whet owls in my yard about 10 years ago. Birders in my area said I was crazy because there are no saw whet owls in our area. I banded over 80 that first year much to their astonishment.
One of the first ones I caught was already banded! It was my first foreign recapture in my then-short banding career and it turned out to be banded a year earlier at Whitefish Point. The following spring I attended the annual meeting of the Eastern Bird Banding Association and at the Friday night mixer, I happen to be talking with a guy totally at random in a room full of people that I did not know, but his name was somehow familiar. It turned out to be the guy who banded that bird at Whitefish Point.
I am looking to expand my parker "collection" although I really am interested in them for hunting purposes and not so much collecting. The value to me is in spending time afield with them.
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