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Greetings birders.=20 Karol Gresser and I refound the eclipse (molting?) plumage Cinnamon Teal = around 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon at 140th Marsh in Dakota County. We = scanned the far (north) shore of the pond for a half hour before we = found the bird. We located the bird only 3 minutes after another = gentlemen (didn't get his name) left after futilely searching himself. A = scope is a virtual necessity.=20 Compared to the Blue-winged Teals, Mallards, Pied-billed Grebes, and = Coots that frequent the pond, the bird is not hard to differentiate: it = is small, still has an entirely cinnamon-hued torso and the unmistakable = Shoveler-like bill. I'll let those more expert than I sort out whether = this bird is a hybrid. We also stopped briefly at the Empire power station on 210th Street in = Dakota County, just west of Co Rd 81. We found Dickcissels, Western = Meadowlarks, and the usuals, but no Mockingbird. Fr. Tom ------=_NextPart_000_077F_01C33401.34A0A220 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type = content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1> <STYLE></STYLE> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2716.2200" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=3DMailContainerBody=20 style=3D"PADDING-LEFT: 10px; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; = COLOR: #000000; BORDER-TOP-STYLE: none; PADDING-TOP: 15px; FONT-STYLE: = normal; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; BORDER-RIGHT-STYLE: none; = BORDER-LEFT-STYLE: none; TEXT-DECORATION: none; BORDER-BOTTOM-STYLE: = none"=20 leftMargin=3D0 topMargin=3D0 acc_role=3D"text" CanvasTabStop=3D"true"=20 name=3D"Compose message area"><?xml:namespace prefix=3D"v" = /><?xml:namespace prefix=3D"o" /> <DIV>Greetings birders. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Karol Gresser and I refound the eclipse (molting?) plumage Cinnamon = Teal=20 around 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon at 140th Marsh in Dakota = County. We=20 scanned the far (north) shore of the pond for a half hour before we = found the=20 bird. We located the bird only 3 minutes after another gentlemen (didn't = get his=20 name) left after futilely searching himself. A scope is a virtual = necessity.=20 </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Compared to the Blue-winged Teals, Mallards, Pied-billed Grebes, = and Coots=20 that frequent the pond, the bird is not hard to differentiate: it is = small,=20 still has an entirely cinnamon-hued torso and the unmistakable = Shoveler-like=20 bill. I'll let those more expert than I sort out whether this bird is a=20 hybrid.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>We also stopped briefly at the Empire power station on 210th Street = in=20 Dakota County, just west of Co Rd 81. We found Dickcissels, Western = Meadowlarks,=20 and the usuals, but no Mockingbird.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Fr. Tom</DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_077F_01C33401.34A0A220--