Re: [cobirds] Thank You and Almost Goodbye Colorado Birders

Wow! Sorry to hear this but Vermont is pretty cool. Thanks for all you've done for the birds of CO.

I for one will miss your hawk (& other bird) reports!

Good luck!

Lisa Carp

Superior

On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 9:27 AM 'The Nunn Guy' via Colorado Birds <cobirds@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Hi all

We are moving to Vermont and our house in Nunn will be listed in next weeks. We expect a quick sale in this "hot" market. I wish I can personally thank many of you for your generosity and enthusiasm about birding. I enjoyed everyone of you who attended any trips I led up here and down in Colorado Springs-area. I appreciated bumping into birders in the field and learning something new about birding, life and yourself. I really enjoyed "passerbyers" and pointing out birds to them and seeing the light "turn on" for birding.

Ten things I'll miss about Colorado

• Pawnee National Grassland--growing up in the most dense state in America (NJ) Colorado taught me to truly appreciated and embrace living on the prairie
• Love the Colorado concert scene-especially at Red Rocks
• Beautiful weather
• Diversity of birds--who knew gulls existed outside a beach
• Scenic drives in the mountains
• Fort Collins
• "Hiding" the last ten years of my Air Force career at the magnificent U. S. Air Force Academy
• Conservation-minded citizenry
• Pikes Peak-in the middle of an Air Force tour in South Korea I received a phone call saying my next assignment was the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs. My initial "Joisey" reaction was "what the heck is in Colorado?" (thinking wild west, wagon wheels, etc ;-) ) When I stepped off the plane in Colorado Springs and saw Pikes Peak I said to myself (and others) "I don't have to go back to Jersey any more"
• Plant-based protein culture and availability

Ten things we love about Vermont

• Did I mention GREEN? We visited last July, everywhere we went (and we traveled the entire state) was GREEN, GREEN and more GREEN
• Billboards are illegal
• Mandatory recycle
• Maple syrup (diners and bakeries!)
• Montpelier is the only state capital without a McDonald's
• Vermont does not have any skyscraper. Vermont is the only state that does not have any buildings taller than 124 feet
  
• Covered bridges
• Farm stands (pay-as-you-go, free, pay-what you can) everywhere
• Second smallest state by population
• Vermont became the last state to get a Walmart store
  

I'll miss the Colorado birding community! Until we meet again ...

Thanks, Gary Lefko, Nunn

https://www.friendsofthepawneegrassland.org/

https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/birds-and-more-of-the-pawnee-national-grassland

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