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All, Went up to Duluth by way of Mille Lacs today, and ran into almost as many birders as birds (Amazing how one can predict who one will see based on the weekend it is.ran into Jeff Stephenson, Chuck Krulas, John & Chris Hockema, Dedrick Benz, Mike Hendrickson, Jerry Pruitt, Barb & Denny Martin, etc.what a crowd!). 40th was quite nice, with many sparrows represented, including at least 2, possibly 3 separate Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrows. Other sparrows seen included Leconte's, Lincolns, Song, Vesper (By others, not me), Harris (By others, not me), White-crowned, White-throated, Clay-colored and Savannah. Also saw multiple Lapland Longspurs, but no Smith's :-(. Near the SW corner, there was a Buff-breasted Sandpiper and an American Golden Plover. Later on I went up to Hawk Ridge. It was slow, but they had 2 Sharp-Shinned hawks and a Merlin that they had caught/banded, that they brought down to get "Adopted". Merlin's are absolutely spectacular when seen so closely. I wish I could have adopted it, but someone beat me to it. Other hawks overhead included Bald Eagles, more Sharp-shinned. It was rather slow while I was there, so I focused on taking White-crowned, White-throated and Lincoln's sparrow pictures. I also ended up finding out the brand new 2Gb compact flash card for my camera is bad, and I lost a good 50+ pictures including the Nelson's sharp-tailed pics I got (that were probably pretty damned good). So a pretty good day ended on a really sour note. Chris Fagyal --Boundary_(ID_gesTUswBt4/qfhCZ/yzsfg) Content-type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:st1="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40";> <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 10"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 10"> <link rel=File-List href="cid:[email protected]"> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="City"/> <o:SmartTagType namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"/> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:DoNotRelyOnCSS/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:SpellingState>Clean</w:SpellingState> <w:GrammarState>Clean</w:GrammarState> <w:DocumentKind>DocumentEmail</w:DocumentKind> <w:EnvelopeVis/> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> </w:Compatibility> <w:BrowserLevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--> <style> <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Wingdings; 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mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman";} </style> <![endif]--> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:.5in'> <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>All,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Went up to Duluth by way of Mille <span class=SpellE>Lacs</span> today, and ran into almost as many birders as birds (Amazing how one can predict who one will see based on the weekend it is…ran into Jeff Stephenson, Chuck <span class=SpellE>Krulas</span>, John & Chris Hockema, <span class=SpellE>Dedrick</span> Benz, Mike Hendrickson, Jerry Pruitt, Barb & Denny Martin, etc…what a crowd!).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>40<sup>th</sup> was quite nice, with many sparrows represented, including at least 2, possibly 3 separate Nelson’s Sharp-tailed Sparrows.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Other sparrows seen included <span class=SpellE>Leconte’s</span>, </span></font><st1:City><st1:place><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Lincolns</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, Song, Vesper (By others, not me), Harris (By others, not me), White-crowned, White-throated, Clay-colored and </span></font><st1:City><st1:place><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Savannah</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>. <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Also saw multiple Lapland Longspurs, but no <span class=GramE>Smith’s </span></span></font><font size=2 face=Wingdings><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;mso-ascii-font-family: Arial;mso-hansi-font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;mso-char-type: symbol;mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings'><span style='mso-char-type:symbol; mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings'>L</span></span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Near the SW corner, there was a Buff-breasted Sandpiper and an American Golden Plover.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Later on I went up to Hawk Ridge.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>It was slow, but they had 2 Sharp-Shinned hawks and a Merlin that they had caught/banded, that they brought down to get “Adopted”.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Merlin’s are absolutely spectacular when seen so closely.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I wish I could have adopted it, but someone beat me to it.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>Other hawks overhead included Bald Eagles, more Sharp-shinned.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>It was rather slow while I was there, so I focused on taking White-crowned, White-throated and </span></font><st1:City><st1:place><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Lincoln</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>’s sparrow pictures.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>I also ended up finding out the brand new <span class=GramE>2Gb</span> compact flash card for my camera is bad, and I lost a good 50+ pictures including the Nelson’s sharp-tailed <span class=SpellE>pics</span> I got (that were probably pretty damned good).<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>So a pretty good day ended on a really sour note.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'>Chris Fagyal<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> </div> </body> </html> --Boundary_(ID_gesTUswBt4/qfhCZ/yzsfg)--
