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Index of Subjects --_a4fbfc71-3c01-4bbe-9ad0-cc92531257a5_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Well I finally managed to sneak away for a short trout fishing excursion. = On that particular outing I encountered a pair of palm warblers which were = very aggitated. I also=2C heard a hawk of some sort screeching=2C but it w= as quite far from where I was. Other neat things were a barred owl vocaliz= ing at 19:00 and an American woodcock doing the mating dance in the sky wit= h the dropping down and the tell tale pent call. =20 =20 On the fish end I released five trout=2C which were considered by me as too= small for the frying pan and kept one only. I actually ran out of bait an= d was going to fall back on my fly rod. It is a nice Brown's rod=2C blue i= n color=2C which has done well for the last 20-25 years without any harm. = Well when I put the rod together it sagged and upon inspection was fracture= d. I had been carrying it in the back of the car and gave instructions tha= t it was there and to be careful and mindful of it. From what I can determ= ine it succumbed to a bag of laundry carelessly thrown in on top of the rod= . We won't mention any names as to the infractee. =20 My other disappointment was that I had requested time off on Sunday in hope= s of being able to get to the AGM for part of the day for the Federation an= d also three vacation days thereafter. Somehow=2C they lost my paper work = and therefore I had to work Sunday. Oh well=2C once before I had to ask fo= r photocopies of my requests. It is a sad day when one has to resort to su= ch again. =20 =20 Interestingly enough there have been reports of northern shrikes locally. = One was at Gold River and a suspected other at Second Peninsula. At Second= Peninsula my reportee tells me that he found a bee impaled on a barbed wir= e fence. The only bird that we know that would do such a thing is the butc= her bird or Northern Shrike. Maybe it is the same bird that was at Gold Ri= ver. =20 James R. Hirtle Bayport _________________________________________________________________ Internet explorer 8 lets you browse the web faster. http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=3D9655582= --_a4fbfc71-3c01-4bbe-9ad0-cc92531257a5_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px=3B padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt=3B font-family:Verdana } </style> </head> <body class=3D'hmmessage'> Well I finally managed to sneak away for a short trout fishing excursion.&n= bsp=3B On that particular outing I encountered a pair of palm warblers whic= h were very aggitated. =3B I also=2C heard a hawk of some sort screechi= ng=2C but it was quite far from where I was. =3B Other neat things were= a barred owl vocalizing at 19:00 and an American woodcock doing the mating= dance in the sky with the dropping down =3Band the tell tale pent call= . =3B <BR>  =3B<BR> On the fish end I released five trout=2C which were considered by me as too= small for the frying pan and kept one only. =3B I actually ran out of = bait and was going to fall back on my fly rod. =3B It is a nice Brown's= rod=2C blue in color=2C which has done well for the last 20-25 years witho= ut any harm. =3B Well when I put the rod together it sagged and upon in= spection was fractured. =3B I had been carrying it in the back of the c= ar and gave instructions that it was there and to be careful and mindful of= it. =3B From what I can determine it succumbed to a bag of laundry car= elessly thrown in on top of the rod. =3B We won't mention any names as = to the infractee.<BR>  =3B<BR> My other disappointment was that I had requested time off on Sunday in hope= s of being able to get to the AGM for part of the day for the Federation an= d also three vacation days thereafter. =3B Somehow=2C they lost my pape= r work and therefore I had to work Sunday. =3B Oh well=2C once before I= had to ask for photocopies of my requests. =3B It is a sad day when on= e has to resort to such again. =3B <BR>  =3B<BR> Interestingly enough there have been reports of northern shrikes locally.&n= bsp=3B One was at Gold River and a suspected other at Second Peninsula.&nbs= p=3B At Second Peninsula my reportee tells me that he found a bee impaled o= n a barbed wire fence. =3B The only bird that we know that would do suc= h a thing is the butcher bird or Northern Shrike. =3B Maybe it is the s= ame bird that was at Gold River.<BR>  =3B<BR> James R. Hirtle<BR> Bayport<BR><br /><hr />Internet Explorer 8 makes surfing easier. <a href= =3D'http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=3D9655264' target=3D'_new'>Get it now! = </a></body> </html>= --_a4fbfc71-3c01-4bbe-9ad0-cc92531257a5_--
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