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Hi everyone! Well, since I couldn't be in Duluth this weekend like I had planned = (best of luck to the birders up there now. I will live vicariously = through you!), I decided to make the best of my weekend here at home. I = birded River Bend Nature Center this morning, first looking for Nelson's = sharp-tailed sparrows (no luck), and then walking along the river seeing = what I could turn up. There were a few surprises in the form of late = fall migrants. Some highlights included: blue-gray gnatcatcher eastern wood pewee Philadelphia vireo red-eyed vireo Wilson's warbler magnolia warbler black and white warbler Arriving to the parking lot after my walk, I noticed there was a very = light breeze blowing in from the north. I figured this might make good = hawk watching weather. I wasn't disappointed as I had 159 broad-winged = hawks, 7 sharp-shinned hawks, 1 Cooper's hawk, and 1 osprey within a = span of two hours. I'm still bummed at not being able to make Duluth, but I was still = able to scratch my birding itch a little bit! Good birding, Dave Bartkey Faribault,MN screech...@charter.net ------=_NextPart_000_0031_01C6DF1F.F50714A0 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 6.00.2800.1555" 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> Well, since I couldn't be in = Duluth this=20 weekend like I had planned (best of luck to the birders up there now. I = will=20 live vicariously through you!), I decided to make the best of my weekend = here at=20 home. I birded River Bend Nature Center this morning, first looking for = Nelson's=20 sharp-tailed sparrows (no luck), and then walking along the river seeing = what I=20 could turn up. There were a few surprises in the form of late fall = migrants.=20 Some highlights included:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>blue-gray gnatcatcher</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>eastern wood pewee</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Philadelphia vireo</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>red-eyed vireo</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Wilson's warbler</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>magnolia warbler</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>black and white warbler</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Arriving to the parking lot after my = walk, I=20 noticed there was a very light breeze blowing in from the north. I = figured this=20 might make good hawk watching weather. I wasn't disappointed as I had = 159=20 broad-winged hawks, 7 sharp-shinned hawks, 1 Cooper's hawk, and 1 osprey = within=20 a span of two hours.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2> I'm still bummed at not being = able to make=20 Duluth, but I was still able to scratch my birding itch a little=20 bit!</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_0031_01C6DF1F.F50714A0--