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Hi everyone! My mission this evening after work was to finally locate my = first-of-year blue-gray gnatcatcher. My daughter and I headed to birding = hotbed, River Bend Nature Center, for this task. Shortly after getting = out of my car, we were greeted with a mixed flock of ruby-crowned = kinglets, yellow-rumped warblers, and a couple of chickadees. We stopped = and watched the flock feeding and moving around for awhile. Patience = paid off as I found a black & white warbler! We both had great looks and = left before the bird did. We walked along the pond looking for a F.O.Y. = palm warbler, and instead, I found a gorgeous male pine warbler! He even = sang for us a little! He was flycatching quite a bit, and he even drew = close enough to my daughter and I for fantastic looks WITHOUT = binoculars! Once again, we left before the bird did. I'm still looking = for the gnatcatcher, and palm warbler for that matter, but absolutely no = complaints here! Good birding! Dave Bartkey Faribault,MN screech...@charter.net ------=_NextPart_000_00EA_01C668A4.FC7FD880 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 6.00.2800.1528" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hi everyone!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> My mission this evening after = work was to=20 finally locate my first-of-year blue-gray gnatcatcher. My daughter and I = headed=20 to birding hotbed, River Bend Nature Center, for this task. Shortly = after=20 getting out of my car, we were greeted with a mixed flock of = ruby-crowned=20 kinglets, yellow-rumped warblers, and a couple of chickadees. We stopped = and=20 watched the flock feeding and moving around for awhile. Patience paid = off as I=20 found a black & white warbler! We both had great looks and left = before the=20 bird did. We walked along the pond looking for a F.O.Y. palm warbler, = and=20 instead, I found a gorgeous male pine warbler! He even sang for us a = little! He=20 was flycatching quite a bit, and he even drew close enough to my = daughter and I=20 for fantastic looks WITHOUT binoculars! Once again, we left before the = bird did.=20 I'm still looking for the gnatcatcher, and palm warbler for that matter, = but=20 absolutely no complaints here!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Good birding!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Dave Bartkey</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Faribault,MN</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><A=20 href=3D"mailto:screech...@charter.net">screech...@charter.net</A>=20 </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_00EA_01C668A4.FC7FD880--