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I was visiting family in Lake Crystal in Blue Earth County for the Holiday. My Aunt and Uncle have had a Brown Thrasher visiting the yard several times a day for the past three weeks or so. (Uncle Dick says the bird has been there all Summer, nesting in a hedge, but Claudia didn't notice it.) The bird forages most actively in the morning under the feeders, picking up bits of suet and sunflower. Most recently it has learned to cling to the suet feeder. The home is in a residential neighborhood about 6 blocks from the lake. I did not see the bird myself, having arrived just 30 min after the Thrasher's late afternoon visit on Friday. After they told me what they thought the bird was I questioned them about it's physical characteristics and behavior. Satisfied with the key field marks they described I retrieved my NAT. GEO FG from the car and had them look at Thrushes and Thrashers. They confirmed that it was a Brown Thrasher, slightly larger than a Robin, having a streaked breast, not spotted and having a longer beak than a thrush. Kelly Larson Bemidji Minnesota Northern Flights Wild Bird Store Just 96 miles from the Canadian border! Or visit us on the Web at... http://www.northern-flights.com Eschew Obfuscation! The middle of Nowhere is Somewhere! --Apple-Mail-1--558719895 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 <HTML><BODY style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; = -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">I was visiting family in Lake = Crystal in Blue Earth County for the Holiday. My Aunt and Uncle have had = a Brown Thrasher visiting the yard several times a day for the past = three weeks or so. (Uncle Dick says the bird has been there all Summer, = nesting in a hedge, but Claudia didn't notice it.) The bird forages most = actively in the morning under the feeders, picking up bits of suet and = sunflower. Most recently it has learned to cling to the suet feeder. The = home is in a residential neighborhood about 6 blocks from the = lake.<DIV><BR class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I did not see = the bird myself, having arrived just 30 min after the Thrasher's late = afternoon visit on Friday. After they told me what they thought the bird = was I questioned them about it's physical characteristics and behavior. = Satisfied with the key field marks they described I retrieved my NAT. = GEO FG from the car and had them look at Thrushes and Thrashers. They = confirmed that it was a Brown Thrasher, slightly larger than a Robin,=A0 = having a streaked breast, not spotted and having a longer beak than a = thrush.<DIV><BR class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> = <SPAN class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; = font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; = -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; = font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; = -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; 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"><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; = font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; = -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; = font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; = -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Kelly = Larson</DIV><DIV>Bemidji Minnesota</DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Northern Flights Wild Bird = Store</DIV><DIV>Just 96 miles from the Canadian border!</DIV><DIV>Or = visit us on the Web at...</DIV><DIV><A = href=3D"http://www.northern-flights.com">http://www.northern-flights.com</= A></DIV><DIV><BR class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT = class=3D"Apple-style-span" color=3D"#4A2FFF"><SPAN = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"color: rgb(74, 47, 255); 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