[Ads-l] Coxsackie screw-in grasslands preserve

[George Thompson]

Peter seems to have the answer.  Still, going from "creek" to "screw-in"
seems a pretty outlandish computer misapprehension.

GAT


On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 3:11 PM Peter Reitan <pjreitan at hotmail.com> wrote:

> auto-fill error for creek?
>
> The poster saw a hoary redpoll in the Coxsackie Creek Grasslands
> Preserve?
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Andy Bach" <afbach at gmail.com>
> To: ADS-L at listserv.uga.edu
> Sent: 2/5/2019 11:26:16 AM
> Subject: Re: Coxsackie screw-in grasslands preserve
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> >A type of bird?
> >and at least one Hoary Redpoll in the field north of the SaveALot in
> >Coxsackie, NY
> >(Greene County.). This area is part of the Coxsackie screw-in grasslands
> >preserve.
> >
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.mail-2Darchive.com_nysbirds-2Dl-40cornell.edu_msg25367.html&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=v2Wtu7DQZxSBMSJv-oEMNg&m=as-VlntpGjc0eah2nmpMNThtbnNwHQS396z-DlTM92U&s=OYC8zVq8I9m3o_QiP3f46SbDeabqle59CYBWB8PvUT0&e=
> >
> >or a small mammal
> >"after hearing my descriptions of the animal and the habitat, gave me 3
> >species to google- 2 voles, and a screw."t
> >
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.mail-2Darchive.com_nysbirds-2Dl-40cornell.edu_msg04333.html&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=v2Wtu7DQZxSBMSJv-oEMNg&m=as-VlntpGjc0eah2nmpMNThtbnNwHQS396z-DlTM92U&s=eHh-Sq0aqVd8U9ZfCNLagvtGmhwl0hqVYTPuld-Gwyg&e=
> >
> >Perhaps it's a typo for "screw-stem"
> >
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__gobotany.newenglandwild.org_species_bartonia_paniculata_&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=v2Wtu7DQZxSBMSJv-oEMNg&m=as-VlntpGjc0eah2nmpMNThtbnNwHQS396z-DlTM92U&s=kUC2Hl_4G6lg3iQMiyBcfNoIDrxNEK4OYxolf1MCV4A&e=
> >
> >There's screw fern, but that's Australian
> >
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__grasslands.ecolinc.vic.edu.au_fieldguide_flora_screw-2Dfern&d=DwIGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=v2Wtu7DQZxSBMSJv-oEMNg&m=as-VlntpGjc0eah2nmpMNThtbnNwHQS396z-DlTM92U&s=VUw22tPXkFZkMgD-BNPDfTPrSMaH7Kme60nnG9Y12U4&e=
> >
> >and "screw bean"
> >
> >
> >On Tue, Feb 5, 2019 at 12:23 PM George Thompson <george.thompson at nyu.edu>
> >wrote:
> >
> >>  What the hell can a "*screw-in* grasslands" be?
> >>
> >>  There's at least one, in Coxsackie, Greene county, New York.  I may go
> up
> >>  there soon to check it out.
> >>
> >>
> >>
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George A. Thompson
The Guy Who Still Looks Stuff Up in Books.
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)
http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851

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