Subject: midwest list
Date: Jul 2 08:56:35 2000
From: Peter Henrickson - kpeter at earthlink.net




Tweeters,
My wife and I recently put 3,500 miles on a rental car in ten days, which
didn't leave a lot of time for birding. We did stop occasionally however,
and I want to report on what we saw. This was a trip from Dallas to
Toledo, Ohio -- Flint, Michigan and back.

Little Blue Heron
Indigo Bunting
Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
Brown Thrasher
Red-Headed Woodpecker
Baltimore Oriole
East. Meadowlark
Great-tailed Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Common Grackle
Bob White (seen but not heard)
East Blue Jay
Cardinal
Cattle Egret
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Turkey Vulture (one of which lifted a huge unidentifiable snake off the
road as we approached)
Purple Martin
+ non birds
fox
woodchuck
Tortoise
+ other things seen from a speeding car
Armadillo road kill
Razorback road kill

--- Peter Henrickson
--- kpeter at earthlink.net
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