Hi all,
Since there is apparent interest on this list about the activities of
Lawrence Hicks, I offer the following data on Christmas Bird Counts he
participated in.
In total he participated a total of 85 times on 11 different counts of
which he was the compiler for 31 of them.
Up until the time of his death he was ranked as #1 in CBC participation in
Ohio. The next closest person had attended "only" 58 times.
He and his fellow participants recorded a total of 166 species (and races)
of Ohio's CBC birds of the 198 species (and races) seen up to the time of
his death.
*# of counts*
*First Count *
*Last Count*
*Count Name*
22
1935
1956
Ashtabula
23
1934
1956
Buckeye Lake
9
1927
1956
Columbus
9
1924
1933
Fredericktown
1
1956
1956
Hoover Reservoir
4
1953
1956
Indian Lake
1
1953
1953
Marietta
1
1956
1956
O'Shaughnessy Reservoir
11
1944
1954
Sugar Grove
2
1951
1953
Utica
2
1934
1935
Zanesville
Data extracted and interpreted from *Bird-Lore* and *Audubon Field Notes*
as publications of the National Audubon Society
Roger Troutman
Mansfield, Ohio
On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 11:56 AM, Peters, Jeffrey L. <
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> Try doing a search using scholar.google.com. It will return only (mostly)
> scientific articles.
>
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> From: Ohio birds <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Bill Whan
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> Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2017 11:52:04 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [Ohio-birds] Interesting material on the death of Lawrence Hicks
> (long)
>
> Just have to say how bogus the search engines are these days. Polluted
> by advertising. I entered the name of the full title of an article in a
> very well-known journal ("In Memoriam: Lawrence Emerson Hicks") but got
> a long list of crap--flowmeters, public radio, alumni societies,
> appliances--but fortunately I knew where to find it in the archives of
> The Auk in July 1958:279-280.
> Readers of this list will learn a lot by reading that In Memoriam
> at
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__sora.
> unm.edu_node_20668&d=DwICaQ&c=3buyMx9JlH1z22L_G5pM28wz_
> Ru6WjhVHwo-vpeS0Gk&r=EQ35l8j6eH_DAx31GLQzvuEUBjKJvuwB3jijtstP24k&m=
> vsdw7WaQmki3jtBChK2uIZP8JrMN59f6UD_Er6aWqxQ&s=AITfBnNskbPHHcZhpo-
> OD0JmFkJ8R6VPd9sdnpu5gdg&e= . In addition, the keepers of records
> at the West Virginia Archives, recently discussed here, have some less
> formal documents that throw light on the premature death of a fine
> scientist who deserved to live much longer.
> I am offering these hard-to-find informal documents here, as my
> stack
> of submitted but unpublished articles for The Ohio Cardinal grows ever
> larger, and perhaps folks who don't subscribe will find it of interest.
> The following typescript from the folks at the West Virginia archives
> memorializes an informal account of a birding expedition undertaken by
> Hicks and his birding companions ; the name of the reporter ("Tippy") is
> uncertain, but those of the participants are familiar to many of us:
>
> "On Dec. 27, 1956, at Ashtabula, Larry Hicks, age 52, won a coldly
> contested swimming race in Lake Erie with a papa White-winged Scoter,
> age on the quacking side (?) of 50. Larry was nice (?) and pink and
> nekid but it diddent make any difference as everything was excluded and
> deserted. Only a spire-type abandoned warehouse overlooked from a high
> hill. At the 209 foot mark Donald was still gaining. When he tired
> Tippy swam along-side and gave encouraging nibbles. When Larry tired,
> not having Haller swimming at his side to hurl Anserian invectives at
> his opponent, Larry tired.
> Suddenly the old warehouse turned into a converted Port office
> building with side-splitting ravishing office girls hanging from every
> window. All this didn't warm Larry a bit but Donald reared back in the
> water to get a McCarthy stare on the heavenly bodies. At this moment,
> like a Venice postman on his appointed rounds, Larry swished past at the
> speed of a porpoise at 16 below, slurped Donald's toes into his teeth
> and made off for points north like a far-north Labrador retriever, only
> to froth out of the water like a Masstiff.
> Meanwhile Ernie Limes crouched in the end of an old fishing boat
> over a pile of fish and their parts representing every month since the
> last war. After trying out green, yellow and purple for
> appropriateness, Ernie developed a new standard shade of white trying to
> decide in two or three seconds how an Olympic-rated swimmer could rescue
> a sub-adult delinquent while swimming in his hip boots and double deer
> hunting clothes. He kept taking off clothes the rest of the day. Someone
> always misses the fun. Claugus became so absorbed in unsnarling an old
> frozen fish rope as a possible rescue line, that he didn't know anything
> had happened. Anyway it was all Milt Trautman's fault. This is the first
> year he hasn't kept himself immediately between Larry and any H-two-O.
> If Larry survives his social dunking and some 19,843 neck twirlings from
> thissaway birds that went thataway and vece visa, both he and Donald
> will at the M-W meeting. Suh hep me, the above is closer to the truth
> than anything Uppy ever writ--but don't tell Larry. I gotta eat. Tippy H."
>
> A photocopy is attached to the foot of this report, evidently
> handwritten and signed by Hicks himself. It reads "After being sicker
> than in all my life put together for last 10 days and taking more
> punishment than in 30 years of wrestling, I got into the hospital--all
> over a little neck-whip in the auto accident. Hope 1957 is just the
> opposite for you. L. E. H."
> The above manuscript was dated 12/17, and Hicks was to die three
> days
> later.
>
>
>
>
>
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