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Hi everyone, We are standing at 45 species seen on the day of our count, before = feeder results. Overall numbers were much lower than last year, but we = did have a count first, a sandhill crane, which has hung around since = summer and still appears very healthy. Other highlights were a single, = very cold-looking great blue heron and two belted kingfishers. Also seen = were one snow bunting and a flock of around 50 lapland longspurs. A grand total of 6 ring-necked pheasants were observed and no wild = turkeys at all. Most disturbing in their absence were red-headed = woodpeckers which have always reliably been found at Nerstrand Big Woods = State Park. The ranger there hasn't seen them for awhile, and other = birders who have checked on them recently haven't been able to turn up a = single one.=20 All that was seen for owls were barred and great horned. No saw-whets = like we usually turn up. Good birding! Dave Bartkey =20 Faribault,MN=20 deean...@msn.com<mailto:deean...@msn.com> ------=_NextPart_000_00B8_01C4E783.20A17240 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 6.00.2800.1479" 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"><!--[gte IE 5]><?xml:namespace = prefix=3D"v" /><?xml:namespace prefix=3D"o" /><![endif]--> <DIV>Hi everyone,</DIV> <DIV> We are standing at 45 species seen on the day of our count, = before=20 feeder results. Overall numbers were much lower than last year, but we = did have=20 a count first, a sandhill crane, which has hung around since summer and = still=20 appears very healthy. Other highlights were a single, very cold-looking = great=20 blue heron and two belted kingfishers. Also seen were one snow bunting = and a=20 flock of around 50 lapland longspurs.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> A grand total of 6 ring-necked pheasants were observed and = no wild=20 turkeys at all. Most disturbing in their absence were red-headed = woodpeckers=20 which have always reliably been found at Nerstrand Big Woods State Park. = The=20 ranger there hasn't seen them for awhile, and other birders who have = checked on=20 them recently haven't been able to turn up a single one. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> All that was seen for owls were barred and great horned. No=20 saw-whets like we usually turn up.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Good birding!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Dave Bartkey </DIV> <DIV>Faribault,MN </DIV> <DIV><A title=3Dmailto:deean...@msn.com=20 href=3D"mailto:deean...@msn.com">deean...@msn.com</A> = </DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_00B8_01C4E783.20A17240--