Hi John, Re: My "PFW - unusual Downey WP count" I sent you an e-mail via "reply to sender only" (Netscape) because it was totally OT and non-newsgroup. You received my e-mail and asked me a question. My attempts to reply to your message were greeted with the dreaded "Undeliverable" message. Very strange. My reply was to suggest subscribing to the rec.birds newsgroup. It's mostly North America, but we do have contributors from the UK and other parts of the world. There are a lot of very helpful and knowledgeable folks here and I think your question about book suggestions for BC and Alaska might bring some good results. BTW: I was going to suggest that if you couldn't access the rec.birds newsgroup, I would post the question for you and forward any posts, but that might not work.
Anyway, that's why you haven't heard from me.
Dick (very puzzled) in the USA