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Note: originally sent yesterday at 4:15 but bounced back. Hello Birders, About 15 minutes ago (4pm) my wife and I were out with our daughter; it was=20 her first time facing forward in the stroller.=A0 We were on Avalon, a small= =20 street parallel to and just north of Lone Oak, a few hundred yards east of P= ilot=20 Knob. A bird was flushed out of some tall spruce/pines by some crows and we though= t=20 it was a hawk.=A0 It seemed to be awfully 'bouncy' in it's flight.=A0 I thou= ght=20 owl and got quite excited.=A0 We got the binoculars on it and watched for cl= ose=20 to 10 minutes as it flew, 'moth like', around, stopping once in the same bun= ch=20 of trees for less than a minute but otherwise at the perfect viewing height. We were quite excited.=A0 Once last year and once this year we had gone to=20 Salem Corners in the hopes of seeing the short-eared but didn't.=A0 Who know= s, maybe=20 this was the same guy (it seems the one we saw was a male due to it's=20 coloration)! We still have red- and white-breasted nuthatches and juncos at the house and= =20 are just seeing the first robins, starlings and red-winged black birds passi= ng=20 by. Happy Birding, The Zajics Eagan, Dakota County=20 --part1_78.5220c260.2d8480d5_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><FONT FACE=3Darial,helvetica><HTML><FONT SIZE=3D2 PTSIZE=3D10 FAMILY= =3D"SANSSERIF" FACE=3D"Arial" LANG=3D"0">Note: originally sent yesterday at=20= 4:15 but bounced back.<BR> <BR> <BR> Hello Birders,<BR> <BR> About 15 minutes ago (4pm) my wife and I were out with our daughter; it was=20= her first time facing forward in the stroller.=A0 We were on Avalon, a small= street parallel to and just north of Lone Oak, a few hundred yards east of=20= Pilot Knob.<BR> <BR> A bird was flushed out of some tall spruce/pines by some crows and we though= t it was a hawk.=A0 It seemed to be awfully 'bouncy' in it's flight.=A0 I th= ought owl and got quite excited.=A0 We got the binoculars on it and watched=20= for close to 10 minutes as it flew, 'moth like', around, stopping once in th= e same bunch of trees for less than a minute but otherwise at the perfect vi= ewing height.<BR> <BR> We were quite excited.=A0 Once last year and once this year we had gone to S= alem Corners in the hopes of seeing the short-eared but didn't.=A0 Who knows= , maybe this was the same guy (it seems the one we saw was a male due to it'= s coloration)!<BR> <BR> We still have red- and white-breasted nuthatches and juncos at the house and= are just seeing the first robins, starlings and red-winged black birds pass= ing by.<BR> <BR> Happy Birding,<BR> <BR> The Zajics<BR> Eagan, Dakota County <BR> </FONT></HTML> --part1_78.5220c260.2d8480d5_boundary--
