Arkansas Blog

"Kip Davis and Jay Robison
saw what they believed was
an ivory-billed woodpecker
on Thursday, one of
thousands of reported
sightings piling up as leaves
in an east Arkansas swamp
drift down."

Thousands of reported sightings and NOBODY can get a decent photo? That's amazing.

I wonder how many of these birds Don Keyhotay has nailed to the walls of his den.

Well, Spirit, the Game Fish and Wildlife people tell us old mountain people here in the Ouachitas there are no black panthers in this place. I personally have seen one up very close (while wade fishing) and others have seen them. But we have had no cameras with us so that means they don't exist...........

It seems Arkansas who go fishing or hunting or boating or kayaking should all carry a portable GPS, a digital video camera and maybe a satellite telephone. Maybe someone will finally get evidence of one of the many bog monsters that persist in state lore.

Even if 'Pecker's continued existence is never proved conclusively, he has c ertainly successfully re-entered our state lore alongside the Foulke Monster, that creature that's said to haunt some creek near Morrilton, and those mysterious lights that stalk certain railroad tracks and bridges.

I love it.

"But we have had no
cameras with us so that
means they don't exist...........
Posted by: Cato"

I'd think the number of people with cameras in the Big Woods trying to get a photo of the woodpecker is huge compared to the number trying to get a snapshot of a panther, so it just surprises me that out of "thousands" of supposed sightings, not a single decent photo.

I'd love to see a panther. Glad they're still out there...and not in here!

Cato,
Lots of erroneous panther sightings down in this corner, too. Perhaps that's why the Fouke Monster has left home and gone up to Morrilton.
But back to the woodpecker. It's delicious! Tastes a lot like Whooping Crane.

Hopefully, one day very soon, a Huckabee sighting will be equally as rare!

Not everyone that sees one says anything. Some private land owners may not want to have a bunch of people invading their land. I have no doubt at least one male ivorybill exisits. It's not in the areaa where everyone is looking either.

Yummm...

More Ivory Bill Gumbo.

What a treat.

There's always hope... and Mike Beebe will not be beholden to lobbyist buddies, too!

Greater hoax: The ivorybill or the Arkansas offense?