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I thought I sent this last night, but I think our server was down. If
you already recieved this just hit the delete botton.

I think we finally found the location where the pair of BLUEJAYS have
been hanging out--below our house near the lake. Got a picture. :-)

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Message-ID: <353AE145.330C at televar.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 22:46:45 -0700
From: Jerry & Sandy Converse <sanjer at televar.com>
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Subject: Still going strong
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Well today we stayed near home for a change and birded locally--if 15
miles is local.

Highlights this morning were:

VESPER, SAVANNAH, and CHIPPING SPARROWS. It took us about one hour
hiking to get close enough to the CHIPPING SPARROW (lifer) to get a
positive ID. They sure don't stay in one place very long. Also saw
SPOTTED TOWHEE, M&F BREWER'S BLACKBIRD, mateing pair of AMERICAN
KESTRELS, TURKEY VULTURES, and one EURASAIN WIGEON.

This evening we drove just past Electric City, across the causeway that
goes over a portion of Banks Lake. on the way back across the causeway
we spotted two birds flying low across the water close to the road. They
landed in a tree on the edge of the lake. Your are not supposed to stop
on the causeway, but I jumped out with the spotting scope and Sandy
drove to the end two hundred yards away and walked (very quickly back)
while I was trying to figure out what the birds were. As soon as Sandy
looked in the scope she blurted out--BLACKED-CROWNED NIGHT-HERON!(lifer)
She remembered seeing them in the field guides. They were in breeding
plummage. They stayed there about fifteen minutes and flew off making a
"quoking" sound like on Peterson's CD.

A good day of birding for us with two lifers right near home. :-)

Jerry and Sandy Converse
Grand Coulee, WA

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