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Our backyard pond is about 3/4 open water and has attracted dozens of = mallards and geese. The surprise of the morning was a pair of pintail = that remained about half an hour. This was the first time we have seen = them in the pond. The first male red-winged blackbird showed up about = the same time, and the yellow variant house finch was back at the = feeder. Don Starkweather Northfield ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C40691.7598F6C0 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 6.00.2800.1400" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Our backyard pond is about 3/4 open water and has = attracted=20 dozens of mallards and geese. The surprise of the morning was a = pair of=20 pintail that remained about half an hour. This was the first time = we have=20 seen them in the pond. The first male red-winged blackbird showed = up about=20 the same time, and the yellow variant house finch was back at the=20 feeder.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Don Starkweather</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Northfield</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01C40691.7598F6C0--