In sports, we're talking spotted owl rare.
Even as the possibility of war with Iraq looms, Defense Department officials took time out today to talk about spotted owls, red-cockaded woodpeckers and slick spot peppergrass.
As she talked, he spotted Ana in the doorway, listening while trying to appear as if she weren't, her eyes cast carefully down.
It confuses me when artistic leaders talk about spotting the hottest new talent from a scratch night at a hip venue or in Edinburgh, but they don't go to their own youth theatre or local amateur companies to see where the new talent is.
In these parts, they talk of spotting the 'big five' on safari - elephant, giraffe, rhino, leopard and, of course, the lion - and the next day we were delighted to 'bag' a nap hand when I caught sight of the rare black rhino.
Today's appeal follows a series North Yorkshire Police have made relating to men they want to talk who were spotted by members of the public on the early morning of 19 March.
I had to go through the inevitable task of making small talk to whoever spotted me, pretending to be okay.
The May article talked about spotting a market top; the postcrash piece challenged the conventional wisdom.
If things had gone differently, I thought, if Talk had prospered... His former partner Tina Brown was among the first people I spotted, talking with Christopher Hitchens.
But the young bride is spotted talking to one of the I.R.A. irregulars, the brother of the dead boy.
