Were y’all just being nice, or are you multitasking? Fortunately, Liz caught it.

Thanks for all the commentary on this one…though Matt, I think you’re making our bromance a tad obvious.

L

Laura – thanks for the compliments about the Cornell days! What a great birding community there! No discussion of the Matts, however, could be complete without Matt Williams, the 4th amigo, he of the engineering persuasion, who after a few years of bird field work in California, actually decided to use his degree to get a “regular” job. Go figure. With two of the original four Matts now back on the Cornell scene, a Matt reunion can’t be far off….

Thanks for the introduction! It’s an honor to be lamented/lauded by such a birding superstar. I should warn your readers that while I try to know a little something about everything in nature, being a jack-of-all-trades has its trade-offs. Those trade-offs are woefully evident when I go birding with one Jeffrey A. Gordon. Fortunately – it’s a great way for both of us to expand our horizons. Jeff helps me improve with things like identifying distant peeps, and I trick Jeff into thinking I’m smart by making up random Latin names for every non-bird organism we see. So far, the collaboration seems to be working nicely. As for the suspiciously tabloid-esque intimations about exactly how I was shanghaied into the shadowy world of 17th-century tallships, I’ll leave that to the collective imagination of the blogosphere.

During his Cornell days, which overlapped mine, he was part of a legendary group of young Ithaca birders all named Matt. As in, the Many Matts Who Bird. Mike Powers helped me piece together the trio, which included Matt Young and Matt Medler. The Matts were all avid, knowledgeable, and enthusiastic birders and contributed much to the Ithaca birding scene.

It’s good to see Matt on the blogosphere and I look forward to reading his blogging adventures.

Thanks for stopping by and for spreading the word about Matt’s blog.

I really appreciate all you do for the bird and nature blogging community.

commented on wrong blog..Sorry Jeff..just doing too many things at once..u can delete that previous comment..
So to you i say..
Thanks for introducing me to The Modern Naturalist..
great blog..
now instead of a blogroll of ten miles long it is ten miles plus!
Seriously though, I am always happy to find new interesting blogs.
Thanks!