PREVIEW: Spoiler alert! Tad sighting!

Birdchick Blog includes an entry about attending the Connecticut Audubon Society Bald Eagle Festival this weekend in Essex. She was surprised by a few celebrities and a production crew.

Mild Spoiler Alert

Holy Colbert, Batman!
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One of these things is not like the other. Can you tell which one of the people in this photo is in fact NOT a birder but a member of the Colbert Report crew? I’m not sure what the segment is going to be about, but the crew was there ALL day filming all sorts of different segments. Being a ham, I tried to insert myself in the background of some shots, so we’ll see if I’m there or on the cutting room floor. The producers said it should air sometime in the next two weeks. We exchanged cards and she said she would try to give me a head’s up when it was about to air. The guy in the funky stripy hat is on the Colbert crew. At one point I saw the camera crew filming him in a port-a-potty and he would pop his head out with binoculars to watch for eagles.

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Here was another one of the guys that was part of the filming, he was trying to “shoot an eagle” with a gun at the eagle festival. We were all asked to not laugh at whatever he did and to try and look angry, bewildered, confused–anything but laugh. It was hard not to laugh at his antics though, he was funny and weird. Since his bit was about shooting birds, I wonder if there is some chance that this is tied into the whole granny killing a cardinal essay in Newsweek?

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Check out the pictures and see if you recognize anyone – besides Phil Donahue! (But maybe with the same monogram?!?)

I found a few more pictures of this exciting event here; hope you don’t mind my adding the link, Jennie! – Ms I