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1. Ok, imagine a balloon, not tied off and you let the air escape by pinching the opening with both thumb and forefingers, stretching it to make the annoying squeak. Now imagine the squeak with a tempo of "ta-daah". Now let's say this sound starts at dusk and lasts all night long, and continues even while a goofy Finlander is stumbling through the woods with a flashlight, trying to spy the culprits. There were at least two, and they let me - I mean that goofy Finlander-to get within a few yards of them but was never able to spy one. They flew from tree to tree. Once I was close, the "ta-daah" changed to an ascending "skwik". I imagine they are young somethings but never got a look. Any ideas? 2. Walking down for the paper yesterday, I was very impressed with the birds. Bay-breasted, Nashvilles, Mourning, Yellow, C.yellowthroat, Ovenbirds, Black-throated green, Blackburnian, Tennessee, Chestnut-sided Warblers, Orioles, RB grosbeaks, Solitary SP. Chipping, Clay-colored, Song and White-throated sparrows, Gold finches, Purple Finches, House Finches, Pine-siskens and hummers by the bushel, as well as the other usuals. I don't recall seeing a Bay-breasted this early or late. 3. I may have a chance next Tuesday afternoon to do some walking around by Onamia. I'm staying north of town. Any thoughts for where I could go for a late afternoon walk? 4. No, really, there were just 3 things. Chris Elmgren Gnesen TWP Duluth -------------------------------1124158814 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" 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=3DUS-ASCII"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1106" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=3Drole_body style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY:=20= Arial"=20 bottomMargin=3D7 leftMargin=3D7 topMargin=3D7 rightMargin=3D7><FONT id=3Drol= e_document=20 face=3DArial color=3D#000000 size=3D2> <DIV>1. Ok, imagine a balloon, not tied off and you let the air escape= by=20 pinching the opening with both thumb and forefingers, stretching it=20 to make the annoying squeak. Now imagine the squeak with a tempo=20= of=20 "ta-daah". Now let's say this sound starts at dusk and lasts all night= =20 long, and continues even while a goofy Finlander is stumbling through t= he=20 woods with a flashlight, trying to spy the culprits. There were at lea= st=20 two, and they let me - I mean that goofy Finlander-to get within a= few=20 yards of them but was never able to spy one. They flew from tree to tr= ee.=20 Once I was close, the "ta-daah" changed to an ascending "skwik". I ima= gine=20 they are young somethings but never got a look. Any ideas?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>2. Walking down for the paper yesterday, I was very impressed wit= h=20 the birds.</DIV> <DIV>Bay-breasted, Nashvilles, Mourning, Yellow, C.yellowthroat, Ovenbirds,=20 Black-throated green, Blackburnian, Tennessee, Chestnut-sided Warblers, Orio= les,=20 RB grosbeaks, Solitary SP. Chipping, Clay-colored, Song and White-throated=20 sparrows, Gold finches, Purple Finches, House Finches, Pine-siskens and humm= ers=20 by the bushel, as well as the other usuals. I don't recall seeing a=20 Bay-breasted this early or late.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>3. I may have a chance next Tuesday afternoon to do some walking=20 around by Onamia. I'm staying north of town. Any thoughts f= or=20 where I could go for a late afternoon walk?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>4. No, really, there were just 3 things.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT lang=3D0 face=3DArial size=3D2 FAMILY=3D"SANSSERIF" PTSIZE=3D"10"= >Chris=20 Elmgren<BR>Gnesen TWP<BR>Duluth</FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML> -------------------------------1124158814--