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Speaking of Washington County Bird spots, I was enjoying Grey Cloud = Dunes SNA on Sunday afternoon (sorry for the late report). Entered off = of 110th. The bird was down by the railroad tracks, several hundred = yards from the parking area. The highlight of the visit was a @ Spotted Towhee=20 (lifer for me), repeatedly admonishing me to "drink your tea", = interspersed with a buzzy tanager-like "jheer". At first I thought it was an eastern, but it gave me a good look at its = back, which showed white tertials, scapulars and coverts, just like the = plains variant shown on pg 474 of Sibley 1st ed. =20 I also saw: @Song Sparrow @ Field Sparrow @Vesper Sparrow @ Am. Goldfinch @ R-T hawk @ G B Heron @ B-C Chickadee @ Catbird @ Cedar Waxwing @ E. Kingbird @ Empidonax Flycatcher (silent) @ Cowbird (immature with Vesper sparrow nearby - Foster parent??) Jim in St. Paul ------=_NextPart_000_005A_01C35ADE.CA7DFDC0 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=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1170" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Speaking of Washington County Bird spots, I was = enjoying Grey=20 Cloud Dunes SNA on Sunday afternoon (sorry for the late report). Entered = off of=20 110th. The bird was down by the railroad tracks, several hundred yards = from the=20 parking area.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>The highlight of the visit was a</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>@ Spotted Towhee </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>(lifer for me), repeatedly admonishing me to "drink = your tea",=20 interspersed with a buzzy tanager-like "jheer".</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2> At first I thought it was an eastern, but = it gave=20 me a good look at its back, which showed white tertials, scapulars and = coverts,=20 just like the plains variant shown on pg 474 of Sibley 1st=20 ed. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>I also saw:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>@Song Sparrow</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>@ Field Sparrow</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>@Vesper Sparrow</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>@ Am. Goldfinch</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>@ R-T hawk</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>@ G B Heron</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>@ B-C Chickadee</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>@ Catbird</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>@ Cedar Waxwing</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>@ E. Kingbird</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>@ Empidonax Flycatcher (silent)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>@ Cowbird (immature with Vesper sparrow nearby = - Foster=20 parent??)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Jim in St. Paul</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_005A_01C35ADE.CA7DFDC0--