Until two days ago, we were having occasional, small flocks of redpolls
at our feeder, and I was jealous of others with consistent, nice-sized
flocks. Starting on Tuesday, we have had a flock of about 150 birds
that come in to feed (largely on sunflower seeds) about 3 times a day.
It is neat
Hi Folks,
I have talked with the Game Farm manager. He told me that they try
to release about 130,000 pheasant each fall, that the captive flock
starts in fall at about 35,000, and that they loose about 7000 to
predation every year. Since the potential for the weight of snow and ice
on
, Profesor Whittaker, the famous ecologist of
the widely-used text, called up the Hawk Barn, while it was still in
Ithaca, to say that they should come and capture the Cooper's Hawk
feeding at his bird feeder or he would take care of the hawk himself.
Yeah, values do change.
Cheers,
John Confer
sitting near jet engines.
For some reason, two pair of Barred Owl were calling throughout the 1.5
hours I visited the nets.
Looks like salamander migration tonight. Spring is so much fun.
Cheers,
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- we could see it
diving, swallowing, bill dipping in the turbid water. The creek is
runoff from the wetland on the west side of Flat Iron Rd, and was high
and rapid from the latest rain storm. John (Confer) visited the loon
several times and notice that when it was flapping its wings, one
together.
No Soras responded to a Sora playback, although the Virginia did respond
to the Sora playback.
So far, I've only heard one meadowlark at a time. It is nice to
hear that others have seen a few bobolinks back on the preserve.
John Confer
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Hi Betsy,
My bet is on chickadees. Check out
http://www.nature.net/forums/load/bird/msg0501291817883.html?12.
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On 10/18/2011 3:02 PM, Betsy Darlington wrote:
What cavity-nesting bird(s) use a lot of moss in their nests? We were
cleaning out our boxes yesterday (we have 14
:00.
Please respond OFFLINE to con...@ithaca.edu. I do need to be able
to control the number of people, should there be numerous, wacko
potential helpers.
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Some of us spent the day, Sunday, standing on windy, snow-swept
shorelines looking through incredibly large flocks for Ross Geese and
Eurasian Widgeon without success (Well OK, there was the Ross Goose
overhead, but you might have seen it while staying in the car.) Others
stayed at home, slept
On 3/5/2012 10:01 PM, Bill Addison wrote:
This has been the winter of finches, flock after flock of them. They are
eating up to 4 litres of black sunflower seed a day, if we give them
that many. These photos have pine grosbeaks, redpolls and pine siskins.
The male pine grosbeaks (red ones)
in this part of Goetchius
this spring. Makes me wonder, coincidence or cause.
Spring is great.
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by the weather condition
and somewhat by the stage of courtship and nest building. In terrible
weather, turn the audible off, and also if it is apparent that the pair
is just forming a pair bond.
Cheers,
John Confer
On 4/9/2012 2:13 PM, geoklop...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Nari,
As John said, it used
now that water level is dropping.
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Some of you youngsters may not know that this bird was once called the
Sycamore Warbler.
John Confer
On 5/7/2012 12:17 PM, Jay McGowan wrote:
Right before the fire department training center, in the tall
sycamores on the golf course.
On May 7, 2012 11:56 AM, Brad Walker bm...@cornell.edu
I believe Paul's observation was based on a Sunday visit. The godwit was
present on Saturday, which may have been its last day at our latitude.
Hopefully, by now is up on the tundra.
Cheers,
John
On 6/3/2012 12:50 PM, p...@grammatech.com wrote:
I tried to find the Godwit at Benning this
forgotten the name of the person who
showed it to us. Let me know, thanks.)
The day and weather was great, especially since the forecast was pretty
bad. Got to enjoy those birds and the help of local birders.
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nemesis bird, even though for me Ceruleans have been a dime for a dozen.
John Confer
On 6/4/2012 11:34 AM, Kenneth Victor Rosenberg wrote:
There was at least 1 CERULEAN on River Rd. near Mud Lock last year,
although I did not hear one last weekend. They seem to still be
numerous in all
the deadline. Comments can be submitted via email to
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evening. For the birds welfare and the accuracy of data
recording, I can not have
unscheduled drop-ins. Please, if you are interested in watching
the banding
process, you must call me first and schedule a time to come out.
John Confer (Home = 539-6308
I think the genetic analyses provide very strong evidence for a lack of
speciation between/among redpolls. Providing additional very weak support, I
have been able to watch 20-100 redpolls on the railing of our deck about 10'
from our dining table. It has seemed to me that there is a
Almost every day around the lake is well spent. This not spectacular
trip had its great moments.
We started at Andy's house near Game Farm Rd and Rt. 366 and counted 47
red-tails at the nearby game farm and continued to see numerous
red-tails during the trip, perhaps 80 or 90 for the day.
I presume the same shrike, still at Goetchius on 12 Feb. in tree top near
parking/bridge area. It is not always readily seen. I see it near the road on
my commute route about 1 out of 6 trips by the Preserve and about 1 out of 3
times I walk around in the
Does it seem to others that the pair of eagles at the lock at the outlet
of Cayuga Lake has moved its nest to the south? I didn't see any
activity at the electric poles at the lock and the nest there seemed
shrunken. And, there is a large pile of sticks farther to the south in a
very large
Of course, you guessed that they were Killdeed (3) and Am. Woodcock.
You've got to like spring.
Cheers, John
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It is so much fun when birds that become fairly regular by summer can give you
a charge when you first ID them for the year.
In our backyard, Karen and I had a Winter Wren trying to do his song, but doing
a poor job of it this morning.
Cheers,
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The Unit Management Plan (UMP) proposes forest regeneration cuts in
areas with moderate density of aspens to create habitat for shrubland
species such as field sparrows, chestnut-sided warblers, blue-winged and
golden-winged warblers, yellow warblers, etc. I have seen dozens of
other
Evening Grosbeak (5), Redpoll (3), Purple Finch (3), Towhee (1), Tree (2), Song
(2), Fox Sparrow (7), Junco (120), Goldfinch (5), very pale and large female
Sharshinned Hawk perched at seed feeder, 30+ Turkey with several displaying
toms, and yesterday, Sapsucker, Downy, Hairy, Pileated and
,
does this make the Goetchius bird better?) Incidentally, this vesper is new to
the cummulative Goetchius list as kept by the Finger Lakes Land Trust.
One of the great things about birding is that you don't know what new
observation may occur anywhere.
John Confer
this morning. Beautiful,
tame little bird.
Cheers, john confer
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Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2013 12:30 PM
to run our dog and fill the feeders. So, maybe 23 April is the
end for lingering Fox Sparrow. I'll miss their beautiful song, but hope
they are fat and healthy when they leave for the northern limits of the
boreal forest.
John Confer
On 4/23/2013 7:41 AM, Geo Kloppel wrote:
6:30 AM; 32 degrees
Goetchius wetlands becoming very shallow to only damp. Wood Frog and
salamander eggs, some with tadpolls already free swimming, in danger of
dessication. Funny sort of forested wetland restoration.
Cheers,
John
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Solitary Sandpiper conviently in east end of new pond closest to parking lot.
Pair of Spotted Sandpiper in west end of new pond to the north of parking area.
I'm still trying to figure out if there is just one or maybe two singing
meadowlarks (You would think that would be easy, buy they/it
Symbolically , we missed staked out brids such as Screech Owl at two
locations, Sora Rail, Black and White Warbler., the Glossy Ibis, or
Tri-colored Heron, Orchard Oriole at two locations, yet we were at 100
species before driving into Montezuma.
Monday, 6 May, was much too early for the
Hi Folks,
It is possible that the same bird is flying around this area. I
didn't see it until about 10 days ago after several scans of the Thomas
Rd wetlands when I spent enough time that I think I would have seen it
if it were there. It was at the Thomas Rd wetlands last Friday at about
The location Jeff mentions for the Sora is the same as where I heard one
about 2 weeks ago. Nice to know it may be staying around. The darn bird
did not respond to playbacks on my Big Day. It certainly is not a bird
that I am very fond of.
Cheers,
John
On 5/16/2013 10:50 AM, Jeff Gerbracht
Karen Allaben-Confer, life member of the Cayuga Bird Club, has a
retrospective art show at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural
History http://www.rtpi.org/ in Jamestown, NY. The show runs from August
9 to October 29 with the opening from 5:00 to 7:00 Friday, August 9.
Karen's work was
else permission to come, if you hope to see our marriage continue, which
was jeopardized last year.
Cheers,
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I have seen Red-headed Woodpeckers caching acorns. At at least one
location, they cached food somewhat as I have seen in videos of Acorn
Woodpeckers, putting them in shallow, tiny holes in the surface of the
tree trunk. This was at Presquille in fall probably a couple decades
ago. so you might
very pleased to meet with us on this matter.
John Confer
Original Message
Subject:FW: Action Alert and Sign on Letter in Support of Plan 2014
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 09:41:02 -0400
From: Andrew Mason andyma...@earthling.net
To: John Confer con...@ithaca.edu, Gerry
The New York State Ornithological Association meeting on 1-3 Nov is at
Long Island this year. Next year we are hosting the meeting. I am going
to go to the meeting, but registered for a motel room at a late date.
Sat field trips go out to Long Island, business meeting (which would be
.
Cheers,
John Confer
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to older
birds was about 6 to 1 and this year it is less than 1 to 6. Great fun
banding, but a strong indication of very low reproductive success this
past breeding season.
Listen for those little owls passing us by during the night.
Cheers,
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Please call numbers below.
Cheers,
John Confer
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to the ambient and metabolism will not slow down enough to make the
body fuel last until spring.
The chance that the bats have rabies, which they do carry, is very
small. They do poop and pee during the winter, which can leave stains
and smells. Otherwise, they are harmless and interesting.
John Confer
of this, and I wouldn't mind someone else doing
part of it.
I've said that misery loves company, and if anyone wants to join me at anytime
between 3:15 and 5:00, we can correspond offline or by phone about where I will
be.
Good Birding,
John Confer 539-6308
PS. So far, all I have heard about means
. It takes about 30 seconds to drive by and
check if he is filling up the hole with fluffy feathers, closed eyes,
and little ear tufts.
Enjoy,
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significant experience for students in the class.
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before
legal sundown, way later than 3:30. I think the Montezuma timing is
based on a lot of previous experience so the short-ears near the winery
seem to be the exception.
Thanks so much to the listserve,
John Confer
I will have my cell phone (607-229-5952) with me throughout the day
seem odd coming from a birder, but my grad work was in
limnology with half the research since grad school was on lakes.)
John Confer
On 2/9/2014 7:20 AM, Liisa S. Mobley wrote:
There's been a bit of discussion about the Finger Lakes freezing over, as
well as the Great Lakes, on the Cayuga Birds
Hi Folks,
The class field trip was postponed from last week to 9 Feb. Of
course it snowed, made roads slippery and we turned around to get home
earlier than intended. But ... .
We go two Snowy Owls, one along Rt 34 just north of Lane Rd and
about 1 mile south of Genoa on a fence
Hi Folks,
The crows have moved their roost to the trees west of Ithaca College campus
between NCR and Longview. A quick scan yesterday suggested about 10,000 crows.
Count from just west of entrance to IC from 4:30 to 6:00.
Please call 539-6308 if you would like to come.
Cheers,
John
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I counted 4549 crows coming to the roost located primarily west of
Rt96B opposite the IC campus with some birds roosting on the east
side of 96B near the circle apartments: Sunday, 1 March, 2014. I
couldn't see if there were any birds coming from the south or west.
On 1
We've had Fox Sparrow singing around our feeder since 1 March, and this
morning (5 March ) a Winter Wren chimed in with its incredibly long
song. Spring is absolutely marvelous. Just pay attention to the
photoperiod and forget about the temperature.
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John Confer
To: Susanne Edwards,
Ontario Ministry of the Environment
cc to above email addresses.
I am a strong
Clearly, the FAA is not acting in a
responsible manner.
The IC campus has numerous ornamental cherry trees, some very
close to the center of campus and in locations with heavy human
traffic. Cedar Waxwing flocks, occasionally as large as several
Two Short-eared Owls flying inside chain link fence at about 7:20 Sunday
evening. First spotted by Bob, eagle eye, McGuire who was still sitting inside
a car after all the rest of us had gotten out of three different cars and did
not notice anything. And the
So, my calendar says I was leading a Cayuga Bird Club trip on Sunday, 9 March.
Knowing my success with owls, this may have been doomed from the start.
Apparently, the entire rest of the world thought I was leading an owl prowl on
Saturday, 8 March. O dear. I'm sorry. Ann Mitchell was kind
Trivia follows
After 65 years of extensive feeding of birds in my yard, (OK, including homes
of parents for Karen and John and our previous homes) and with dispersal of up
to ~100 lb/wk of bird seed when there has been frequent, fresh snow fall, and
after thousands of hours of observation;
Killdeer must have been on the move. I saw 11 Killdeer in half a mile
along flooded fields on Flatiron Rd., Caroline just before it turned
bitter cold with snow. I wonder how many survived.
John Confer
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On Friday afternoon,
Snow Geese: flock near north end of lake, distant view in middle of lake, on
ice, raft more than a mile long
G-w Teal and Ruddy Duck at extreme sw corner of Cayuga Lake.
25 Rusty Blackbird just east
25 Rusty Blackbird just east of Slaterville Springs (50 m) in wet woods north
of Rt 79, between Rt. 79 and Slaterville-Harford Rd.
Birds have been here up to Sunday evening for 3 days. Having said that, they
are sure to fly away over night.
they go
north?)
It does pay to go out on very uncomfortable days.
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7:00-8:00 AM
Aside from one previous report of a calling Am. Bittern for Goetchius, aided by
a very flexible boundary, this was the first AM BI sighting within the
Goetchius and actually this was in the NY DOT portion of the wetland, that I
have heard about.
A female Harrier coursing over
Bald Eagles than Red-tailed Hawks and Am. Kestrel summed together?
Was this a bust day with few species for the effort and time of year, or a
great day? Birding is unpredictably fun
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wildlife for our pleasure. But, I don't think a few minutes of audio
playback by one or two or three individuals makes any difference.
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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Winged Warbler songs
Hi All,
We are fortunate to have John Confer, one of the world's foremost experts on
Blue-winged Warbler and Golden-winged Warbler, in our midst, so I'm hoping that
he can provide a more insightful commentary on this topic than I
up and hope.
Good luck,
John Confer
I think this is entirely appropriate for the list serve.
On 6/29/2014 5:57 PM, Robin Cisne wrote:
I hope you'll excuse this being somewhat off-topic, but I could use
some sage counsel. I have an old mailbox that I was thinking I could
nail up
A couple weeks ago, I went around the main dike auto tour route and saw
two Least Bittern flying by less than 10 yards apart: near the first
segment of the drive that goes north-South just where the dense cattails
open up so that you can see several hundred yards of more or less open
water. I
that are captured are already banded and foreign
recoveries of banded birds are frequent.
Banding must be carried out following specific conditions and
procedures. If interested in helping three or more nights as a BANDING
ASSISTANT, please email off-list to John Confer con...@ithaca.edu
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recollection is that fall Connecticut are more often than not
reported by sound recognition than by sight.
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Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2014 12:00 PM
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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] possible Connecticut
Just a heads up.
I heard out my bedroom window a possible (well, it made my year list)
Connecticut Warbler. It took
And more hawks
A rough-legged hawk flew by the western edge of Slaterville Springs
crossing Rt 79.
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Bob and Joan Horn, Karen and John Confer
Indian Farm Rd: 1 Red-tailed Hawk, junco, tree Spa, and Horned Larks
Poplar Ridge Rd; accipiter and probable N. Harrier
Lake Rd/Long Point Winery: from ~~3:00-3:45 and primarily west or toward
lake from winery, 1 male Am. Kestrel, 1 light
.
I guess comments about where someone does pre-dawn owling are fine
for the listserve. *If some other fool would like to join me at 4:00 AM
at lower Buttermilk Falls St. Pk. please respond to con...@ithaca.edu or
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Hoot,
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On Thu, January 15, 2015 16:03, John Confer wrote:
HI Folks,
The barn door is open or the cat is out of the bag, BUT I HAVE
So we do have global climate change and the photoperiod is getting
longer.. Still, I wonder if the 50+ male red-wings, all of them quiet,
at Montezuma last night are going to pass on any genes for arriving this
early. Surely we'll get at least one big snow storm that would be
potentially
HI Folks,
The barn door is open or the cat is out of the bag, BUT I HAVE A
CONCERN ABOUT DESCRIBING LOCATIONS OF N GOSHAWK WHEN THEY ACT SOMEWHAT
AS IF THEY HAD A TERRITORY. Northern Goshawk are known among banders who
climb to hawk nests to frequently abandon a nest, especially early in
I stop by the Slaterville Springs Dandy store several times a week to
get a newspaper on my way to/from work. I hadn't seen the owl or
months. It really surprised me that David saw it, and also gave me
considerable pleasure. I looked at the cavity at about 11:00 this
morning. It wasn't there
serendipity: the faculty or phenomenon of finding valuable or agreeable things
not sought for, refers to the fairy tale characters who were always making
discoveries through chance.
Cayugabirds-l has carried two recent reports of serendipitous raptor
observations.
A+ ratings: Kevin
I checked Bradfield twice on Sunday, 8 March, once at about 7:45 and
once at about 4:00 with no luck. Whitewash, which I guess was from
Peregrines, was all over the brick walls with a few places of
concentration. One of the three students whom I picked up, Menachem,
said he saw a Peregrine fly
Just ~200 yds southeast of the Triangle Diner is a newly spread patch of
manure. There were ~50 Horned Larks and ~75 Snow Bunting close to the road.
And about a half mile south of there on Center Rd, which has a T-junction with
Lake Rd at the Treleavan Winery, there were ~6 Lapland Longspurs
Do remember to move the time on your clocks one hour forward, i.e., less sleep.
See you tomorrow at 7:45 at the parking lot opposite the Dairy Bar., or at the
Lab before 8:00
Should you forget, our first stop of considerable duration will be at Myer's
Point, but don't forget.
Tufted Duck,
Spring around our house includes Raven courtship. I heard and saw a pair
of ravens flying from _south _of Rt 79 over Goetchius Preserve and up
Hammond Hill and across to Robinson Hollow ( from a field you can see
and hear them from a large distance away). The entire time they flew
very close
, but did not consider
the possibility of many other visitors.
Cheers,
John Confer
On 3/5/2015 9:37 AM, Sandy wrote:
I think the idea of getting permission to bird there is a good idea. Anyone
know who to call? I followed the footprints to the patio and stayed there. I
also drove up
P. Read
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Subject: RE:[cayugabirds-l] SFO learns alchemy - GH Owl nest
John Confer wrote:
We drove over to the golf course and first stopped to see the Great
Horned Owl nest. To our total surprise
Well I'm hopeless looking for raptor nests. I went by Christopher Lane
between 6:30 and 7:00 when I thought would be the best times, and didn't
see the Merlin once. Nice that Mark saw it though. I would like to know
of other Merlin sightings, please. (Not that I'm going to see it.)
John Confer
Ken Kemphues first noted Merlins in the 400 block of N. Titus. At about 7:15, a
pair was sitting in a tree in the middle of the block between N. Titus and
Center Street. I moved to get a better view and the female disappeared as my
view was blocked so I don't have a clue about the nest
,
john Confer
On 4/20/2015 9:59 AM, Gary Kohlenberg wrote:
Hi John,
Yes the nests are very close. From the buss garage the RTHA nest is easier to
see. It is in the tree with the painted 150 yd. marker. It was only after
people reported seeing Owls after I left that I started to get suspicious
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John Confer and I spent the morning helping out
N. Titus x Plain x Center Sts: I watched the male Merlin fly toward,
briefly perch, and fly away from a bundle of sticks in an exceptionally
tall Sycamore along Center St., which parallels N. Titus and is the next
street north. Not proof, but an indication of an actual, active nest.
The nest
What an exceptionally great day. Thanks for taking the time to compile
the observations.
John
On 5/10/2015 4:26 PM, Jay McGowan wrote:
Livia and I had a fun day yesterday. We had a few setbacks: slow
migrant birding in Ithaca; missing some know stakeouts like Upland
Sandpiper, Rusty
.
Cheers,
John Confer
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Bob McGuire described hearing Merlin along Cascadilla Creek between
Aurora and Tioga on 3 May. Since then I have made 6 visits to find the
nest because I wanted to monitor it and determine nesting success. I
heard/saw Merlins on 5 visits in the the block between Aurora and
Tioga. On 5 May,
Sunday, 12 April,
The Wells College boathouse provided:
50+ Horned Grebes close to the dock. Some in breeding plumage and
even began their courtship dance and song. Fabulous.
A Merlin, or possibly two, called off and on for about two minutes
from about 100 yds east of boatchouse and
This is just awesome. I can hardly wait to see the map by you and Karen.
Is there some way we general public could contribute to some guesstimate
of the number fledged from all these nests? And to think, in the middle
of the DDT usage, there were no active Osprey nests in upstate New York.
watched at golf course (Thanks
to whomever for the posting - I've forgotten name).
RT Loon ridiculously close at marina on Sunday sfternoon: best views of
my life, and an incredible treat for a class. (Again thanks for post).
Sunday morning; About 6-7 meadowlark on Burdick Hill Rd.
John Confer
There are four Merlin nests in Ithaca.
The N. Titus St nest, which I thought might have been abandoned, has had
lots of recent activity. Perhaps this change in parental activity
reflects a change in the nest status; maybe the eggs hatched. Please do
not go off the sidewalk along N. Tutus and
the nest vicinity.
John Confer
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