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0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "&g This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0028_01C9B862.7B5A96D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I decided to quickly check out the area this afternoon to see if = anytning was attracted to the newly unfrozen ponds. Despite the vicious = wind there is quite a bit of activity. On the shore by the observation area was a BLACK SCOTER, male. The = orange bump on the bill was brilliant. It was feeding and preening and = seemed quite relaxed. It appeared to be cropping the grass almost like a = goose - I thought that was strange for a scoter. HALIBURTON FARM POND 2 Ring-necked Ducks 1 Great Blue Heron 6 Mallard 8 Black Ducks 4-500 Starlings were singing loudly in 3 nearby trees. The variety of = songs was amazing, some were clearly imitating other birds. To make it = more confusing a number of Red Wing black birds were singing and moving = with them. 12 Bohemian Waxwings were attracted to all the noise but I = couldn't tell if they joined in or not. A pair of Downey Woodpeckers = just did their thing. A Red-Tailed Hawk that had been soaring in the area came over and chased = the starlings, landing in one of the trees they had been using and = putting on a vigorous display as if it was challenging them to return. = There were no takers. A pair of Canada Geese have taken up residence in Akins Lake near = Hantsport. John Belbin ------=_NextPart_000_0028_01C9B862.7B5A96D0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META name=3DGENERATOR content=3D"MSHTML 8.00.6001.18372"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>I decided to quickly check out the area = this=20 afternoon to see if anytning was attracted to the newly unfrozen ponds. = Despite=20 the vicious wind there is quite a bit of activity.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>On the shore by the observation area = was a BLACK=20 SCOTER, male. The orange bump on the bill was brilliant. It was feeding = and=20 preening and seemed quite relaxed. It appeared to be cropping the grass = almost=20 like a goose - I thought that was strange for a scoter.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>HALIBURTON FARM POND</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>2 Ring-necked Ducks</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>1 Great Blue Heron</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>6 Mallard</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>8 Black Ducks</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>4-500 Starlings were singing loudly in = 3 nearby=20 trees. The variety of songs was amazing, some were clearly imitating = other=20 birds. To make it more confusing a number of Red Wing black birds were = singing=20 and moving with them. 12 Bohemian Waxwings were attracted to = all the noise=20 but I couldn't tell if they joined in or not. A pair of Downey = Woodpeckers just=20 did their thing.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>A Red-Tailed Hawk that had been soaring = in the area=20 came over and chased the starlings, landing in one of the trees they had = been=20 using and putting on a vigorous display as if it was challenging them to = return.=20 There were no takers.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>A pair of Canada Geese have taken up = residence in=20 Akins Lake near Hantsport.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>John Belbin</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0028_01C9B862.7B5A96D0--
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