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I reported a first time Oriole hanging out at my feeders after our big = snow in Rochester on Nov. 10th and was totally surprised. But, I looked = out the window today and what was digging in the rocks below my feeders = eating sunflower seeds was a male Oriole! An Oriole in MN at the end = of December! It appears to be holding a wing a little differently but = seems to fly short distances pretty easily. It also let me get close = enough to get some very good pictures. Bummer that we didn=E2=80=99t = see it last weekend at the Xmas bird count here in Rochester! Bill Kass ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C72696.766B4580 Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; = charset=3Dutf-8"> <META NAME=3D"Generator" CONTENT=3D"MS Exchange Server version = 6.5.7036.0"> <TITLE>Male Baltimore Oriole!</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <!-- Converted from text/rtf format --> <P DIR=3DLTR><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"><FONT = SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">I reported a first time Oriole hanging out at my = feeders after our big snow in Rochester on Nov. 10</FONT></SPAN><SPAN = LANG=3D"en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"><SUP><FONT SIZE=3D2 = FACE=3D"Arial">th</FONT></SUP></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"></SPAN><SPAN = LANG=3D"en-us"><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial"> and was totally = surprised.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"></SPAN><SPAN = LANG=3D"en-us"> <FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial"> But, I looked out = the window today and what was digging in the rocks below my feeders = eating sunflower seeds was a male Oriole! An Oriole in MN at = the end of December! It appears to be holding a wing a little = differently but seems to fly short distances</FONT></SPAN><SPAN = LANG=3D"en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"> <FONT SIZE=3D2 = FACE=3D"Arial">pretty easily. It also let me get = close</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"> = <FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">enough</FONT></SPAN><SPAN = LANG=3D"en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"><FONT SIZE=3D2 = FACE=3D"Arial"> to get some very good pictures. Bummer that we = didn</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"><FONT = SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">=E2=80=99</FONT></SPAN><SPAN = LANG=3D"en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"><FONT SIZE=3D2 = FACE=3D"Arial">t see it last weekend at the Xmas bird count here in = Rochester!</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"></SPAN><SPAN = LANG=3D"en-us"></SPAN></P> <P DIR=3DLTR><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"></SPAN><SPAN = LANG=3D"en-us"></SPAN></P> <P DIR=3DLTR><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"><FONT SIZE=3D2 FACE=3D"Arial">Bill = Kass</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG=3D"en-us"></SPAN><SPAN = LANG=3D"en-us"></SPAN></P> </BODY> </HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01C72696.766B4580--