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This morning I encountered a pair of Eurasian Collared-Doves in Traverse Co= unty at the boat ramp on Lake Traverse that is by the town shown on my DeLo= rme as Dakomin(I didn't see much evidnece of a town there). This is off Hw= y 27 across the road from Co. Rd. 3. One of the birds was very coooperativ= e and called several times when I first arrived. Yesterday I encountered a pair of flickers along Co. Rd. 4 west of Hwy 29 i= n the afternoon. One was Yellow-shafted and the other Red-shafted, presuma= bly a hybrid but I only saw the bird flying away so could not be certain. = =20 I found large mixed flocks of geese in Grant County(Big Lake just east of H= erman), Traverse County(at the same boat ramp by Dakomin), Swift County(Gri= ffin Lake in the far NW corner) and Kandiyohi County(Lake Lillian). =20 Also yesterday there were 12 Bald Eagles hanging out just north of the town= of St. Rosa in Stearns County which seemed like an odd place to congregate= . =20 Bob Williams, Bloomington --_3445BE46-AC53-4892-AD6E-266AD36230B5_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML dir=3Dltr><HEAD></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#000000 size=3D2>This morning I encountered= a pair of Eurasian Collared-Doves in Traverse County at the boat ramp on L= ake Traverse that is by the town shown on my DeLorme as Dakomin(I didn't se= e much evidnece of a town there). This is off Hwy 27 across the road = from Co. Rd. 3. One of the birds was very coooperative and called sev= eral times when I first arrived.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Yesterday I encountered a pair of flickers= along Co. Rd. 4 west of Hwy 29 in the afternoon. One was Yellow-shaf= ted and the other Red-shafted, presumably a hybrid but I only saw the bird = flying away so could not be certain. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I found large mixed flocks of geese i= n Grant County(Big Lake just east of Herman), Traverse County(at the same b= oat ramp by Dakomin), Swift County(Griffin Lake in the far NW corner) = and Kandiyohi County(Lake Lillian). </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Also yesterday there were 12 Bald Eagles h= anging out just north of the town of St. Rosa in Stearns County which = seemed like an odd place to congregate. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Bob Williams</FONT>, Bloomington</DIV></BO= DY></HTML> --_3445BE46-AC53-4892-AD6E-266AD36230B5_--
