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I was very sorry to hear that Brian Dalzell had died. Linda and I came
to know him quite well during the first breeding bird atlas, when he was
the Coordinator of the project.
During the final field season, there was still a lot of New Brunswick
which had inadequate coverage, so Brian agreed to spend the summer
surveying in NB. The Atlas rented a van for him, and he lived out of it
all summer, driving around the back roads and logging trails. He got the
data the atlas needed, and at the end of the breeding season returned
the van to the rental agency and came back to the office in Halifax to
begin the task of processing the data for the final year.
He was amused to discover that at some point in the summer he had driven
over a live rifle bullet and gotten it embedded in one of the tires, and
that for some months he had been driving around with the bullet just a
few feet away from him. Apparently it was safely extracted.
On another occasion, Brian, Linda and I went to Cape Breton very early
in the year looking for Boreal Owls. At 2:00 am on a frosty morning we
left our warm motel and headed off into the unknown, armed with a ghetto
blaster and a Boreal Owl tape. Apparently at random, he said, "This
looks like a good spot." We parked, got out, set up the tape player in a
clearing and played a few seconds of owl calls. Nothing. We tried again,
and just as we were getting back in the car, we heard a very faint
reply. Returning to the clearing we played the tape again, and within a
few minutes there was a very irritated Boreal Owl mobbing Brian there in
the moonlight. It was quite a sight to see him happily waving his arms
above his head in self-defense as we ticked the first record for Boreal
Owl in the atlas project.
Peter Payzant
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was very sorry to hear that Brian Dalzell had died. Linda and I
came to know him quite well during the first breeding bird
atlas, when he was the Coordinator of the project.<br>
<br>
During the final field season, there was still a lot of New
Brunswick which had inadequate coverage, so Brian agreed to
spend the summer surveying in NB. The Atlas rented a van for
him, and he lived out of it all summer, driving around the back
roads and logging trails. He got the data the atlas needed, and
at the end of the breeding season returned the van to the rental
agency and came back to the office in Halifax to begin the task
of processing the data for the final year. <br>
<br>
He was amused to discover that at some point in the summer he
had driven over a live rifle bullet and gotten it embedded in
one of the tires, and that for some months he had been driving
around with the bullet just a few feet away from him. Apparently
it was safely extracted.<br>
<br>
On another occasion, Brian, Linda and I went to Cape Breton very
early in the year looking for Boreal Owls. At 2:00 am on a
frosty morning we left our warm motel and headed off into the
unknown, armed with a ghetto blaster and a Boreal Owl tape.
Apparently at random, he said, "This looks like a good spot." We
parked, got out, set up the tape player in a clearing and played
a few seconds of owl calls. Nothing. We tried again, and just as
we were getting back in the car, we heard a very faint reply.
Returning to the clearing we played the tape again, and within a
few minutes there was a very irritated Boreal Owl mobbing Brian
there in the moonlight. It was quite a sight to see him happily
waving his arms above his head in self-defense as we ticked the
first record for Boreal Owl in the atlas project.<br>
<br>
Peter Payzant<br>
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