Date: 10/20/24 6:58 pm From: <WTOWNSEND...> Subject: [Maine-birds] Davis Finch
Steve Myrick mentioned that new birders might not know Davis. He was a major power in the birding world in the pre-computer/facebook age. Davis, Will Russel, the late Ed Thompson and I headed off on the first attempt to tally 100 species in Maine in one day back in the late 60's. Started in Bangor and headed down to Kittery to get both the Cardinal and the House Finch, the only places they could be found at the time. How things have changed. We did many trips on the Bluenose (the old original one) and my memories of Davis are of the end of the trip in the galley, beer, apple pie, and Canadian rat trap cheese. No I-pads then and Davis would print all his notes in a notebook in the most precise hand- written manner. They looked like a printed page. I will miss him and the "old days" of birding.
