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Index of Subjects Hi James, Interesting story, yesterday, about a possibly 17-year old banded goose, but I was intrigued also by the ambiguity in the letter sequence and the supposed two alternatives, which I don't understand, so here's a stab at it. Although it is possible to make an optical system that reflects (flips) an image so that M-2-V generates almost a reversed lateral reflection V-S-M (the '2' would mirror-reflect to look most like an 'S'), simple magnifiers and commercial refracting telescopes don't do this, as far as I know. As you say, the common expression is that they 'invert' the image, but this word itself can be misleading, and what they actually do is to rotate the image through 180 degrees (rotate it through a half circle). This is not the same as mirror-flipping. So if the best first guess is M-2-V, when seen as an image seen through a 'rotating' telescope this would become most like Lambda-Z-W, where Lambda is the Greek capital letter that looks like an A but has no cross-bar. If instead you tried to interpret it upside down 'in your head' but reading now (correctly) in reverse from right to left, you should still come up with M-2-V and never V-2-M. V-2-M would only happen if you tried to interpret it inside your head, incorrectly, from left to right. Does this help resolve which it was, or am I missing something (probably)? I guess the big picture is that either way it is still a rather old banded goose. Reflectively, Steve ******************************** Quoting James Hirtle <jrhbirder@hotmail.com>: > Hi all: > For those interested, I just received a response back on the banded > goose that Dorothy Poole and I saw at Onslo on our visit over the > winter. It appeared as inverted in Dorothy's scope, so we could not > tell for sure the letters on the band. Therefore the goose came from > one place or the other. > > If the collar is M2V, the bird was banded as an after hatch year > female on 06/27/1991 in New York (Lat/Long: 42.91667, -78.41667). If > the collar is V2M, the bird was banded as an after second year female > on 02/05/1992 in Maryland (Lat/Long: 39.41667, -75.75). James R. > Hirtle > Dublin Shore
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