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. < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Try doing a search using scholar.google.com. It will return only (mostly) > scientific articles. > > ________________________________ > From: Ohio birds <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Bill Whan > <[log in to unmask]> > 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. > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. > Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/ > membership.php<http://www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php>. > Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. > > > You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: > listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. > Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/ > membership.php. > Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. > > > You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: > listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] > ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. 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