As Jim Lind has been informed, about 10 of us saw the Nutcracker this morning
around
8:30 a.m. We first found it in one of the yards just across the street from the
144 Edison
address. It disappeared into the brushy little gully area between the houses so
we went
around the block to the South. C. Schumacher asked the gentleman at the house
on
Lee? if we could walk in along his brown wooden fence line to see better. He
seemed
excited and happy to allow us to do that and about that time his wife called
out that the
bird was in their back yard. We walked along the fence and watched over the
fence for
quite a while. The Nutcracker was feeding on the ground and hopping from the
ground
to the picnic table and back. Carol went back inside the house so the owners
could look
through her binoculars. JT and I left shortly after but the bird was still
there and some
got pictures. He certainly wasn't at all skittish, but we were pretty well
concealed by the
fence. He seemed a darker gray color on the breast and face compared to birds
I've
seen in Montana-probably a young bird. Great looks! Thanks to all, especially
Jim who
kept us posted.
A.L. Evers
