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--Boundary_(ID_AN2ESsgFdRMSljIU3LIk9w) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT DEC. 29 (Wed.), 2010 - WEST HANTS CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT -- Like the past couple of days, a stiff north wind of 30-50 km/hr made today quite challenging for us birders, with temperatures from -3 to -1 C. But my walking of the streets of downtown Windsor and being bundled up in hooded coat, tuque, good mitts, and snow boots made my part quite bearable, and my morning was fairly productive, with three personal highlights: a huge flock of 600+ Bohemian waxwings eating snow on the ground all around my car (a vocal and colourful treat, but nobody present with which to share it); a male Eurasian wigeon at the Windsor sewage ponds (I visited the ponds three times to confirm it); and a probable male? Baltimore oriole at a feeder near the old textile factory. My personal hours and kilometres were as follows: 5 hrs. and 10 km. on foot; and 1 hr. and 25 km. by car. Suzanne Borkowski, alone and partly in her monstrous SUV, shared area 4 of Windsor with me. She needed the car because she had a much larger area of Windsor to cover than I did (mostly downtown for me, from the textile factory to the streets surrounding Haliburton House museum). Here are my own species and numbers for the day, including my three highlights above: Canada goose - 54 American black duck - 124 mallard - 8 American wigeon - 25 Eurasian wigeon - 1 male (possibly 2 males, 1 immature??)(not seen well) bald eagle - 2 adults + 2 immatures = 4 total5 red-tailed hawk - ring-billed gull - 1 herring gull - 75 great black-backed gull - 26 rock pigeon - 433 mourning dove - 16 northern flicker - 1 downy woodpecker - 1 hairy woodpecker - 2 northern raven - 3 American crow - 30 blue jay - 18 black-capped chickadee - 18 American robin - 4 Bohemian waxwing - 600 European starling - 160 dark-eyed junco - 7 American tree sparrow - 1 song sparrow - 5 Baltimore oriole - 1 American goldfinch - 5 house sparrow - 13 red squirrel - 2 together (but not chasing one another) in same tree -------------------------- The feeder where the Baltimore oriole was seen is at 390 Nesbitt Street, very close to the old textile factory north of Hwy. 101 -- at the main Windsor exit at the Windsor end of the causeway -- drive north past the tourist bureau and then east and look for the sign for Nesbitt Street. Park at the corner and walk in just 4 houses on the factory side of the road -- Glen Burbidge is the home owner, 798-5248 -- I chatted with him, and ***** he should be recruited for next year as a feeder-watcher for the Count *****. I was one of about a dozen or more participants who repaired to the Brooklyn home of Beth and Frank Woolaver again this year -- THANKS FROM ALL! -- for the post-count warm pot-luck repast and tally after dark. Our preliminary tally had 49 species for Count Day plus one more for Count Week (barred owl)(these totals are sure to grow somewhat with other reports to come), with some selected notes as follows as I recall them: Eurasian wigeon - male seen by myself at Windsor sewage ponds wood duck (Allistons, at Falmouth reservoir) common merganser seen northern harrier seen sharp-shinned hawk seen rough-legged hawk seen no notable gulls American robins seen by several observers cedar waxwings seen (as well as Bohemians)(some with robins) PINE WARBLER (Angela Joudrey's seen and photographed by her and also seen today by compiler Pat Kelly) northern cardinal -- some seen chipping sparrow seen Savannah sparrow seen snow bunting - at least one seen, at a feeder, I think Baltimore oriole - seen at feeder in Windsor by myself white-winged crossbill seen common redpolls seen by more than one group no pine siskins reported yet by tally group evening grosbeaks were seen -------------------------- TWO MORE CURRENT BIRD REPORTS: PINE WARBLER IN WOLFVILLE -- Sherman Bleakney has now photographed his bird, seen off and on since Dec. 16, and lately it has been seen daily at his suet feeder in his back yard, at the top end (last house on west side) of Kent Ave., which goes south from Main St., well west of the Acadia Univ. campus. RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD -- Martin Thomas has a single female at his feeder, north of Port Williams, in a subdivision just east of Hwy. 358 and just south of the Canard River dykelands -- the subdivision used to be appropriately called Canard Acres -- his phone number is 542-4484. --Boundary_(ID_AN2ESsgFdRMSljIU3LIk9w) Content-type: text/html; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> <div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>DEC. = 29 (Wed.), 2010 - WEST HANTS CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT </b>-- Like the past = couple of days, a stiff north wind of 30-50 km/hr made today quite = challenging for us birders, with temperatures from -3 to -1 C. = </font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">But my walking of the streets of downtown Windsor and = being bundled up in hooded coat, tuque, good mitts, and snow boots made = my part quite bearable, and my morning was fairly productive, with = <b>three personal highlights</b>: a huge flock of <b>600+ Bohemian = waxwings</b> eating snow on the ground all around my car (a vocal and = colourful treat, but nobody present with which to share it); a male = <b>Eurasian wigeon</b> at the Windsor sewage ponds (I visited the ponds = three times to confirm it); and a probable male? <b>Baltimore oriole</b> = at a feeder near the old textile factory.</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">My = personal <b>hours and kilometres</b> were as follows: 5 hrs. and 10 km. = on foot; and 1 hr. and 25 km. by car.</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Suzanne = Borkowski, alone and partly in her monstrous SUV, shared area 4 of = Windsor with me. She needed the car because she had a much larger = area of Windsor to cover than I did (mostly downtown for me, from the = textile factory to the streets surrounding Haliburton House = museum).</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">Here are my own species and numbers for the day, = including my three highlights above:</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top:= 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: = normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; = "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Canada goose - = 54</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">American black duck - = 124</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">mallard - 8</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">American wigeon - 25</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Eurasian wigeon - 1 male</b> (possibly 2 males, 1 = immature??)(not seen well)</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">bald = eagle - 2 adults + 2 immatures =3D 4 total5</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">red-tailed hawk - </font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">ring-billed gull - 1</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">herring gull - 75</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">great = black-backed gull - 26</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">rock = pigeon - 433</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">mourning dove - = 16</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">northern flicker - = 1</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">downy woodpecker - = 1</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">hairy woodpecker - = 2</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">northern raven - = 3</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">American crow - = 30</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">blue jay - = 18</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">black-capped chickadee - = 18</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">American robin - = 4</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Bohemian waxwing - = 600</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">European starling - = 160</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">dark-eyed junco - = 7</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">American tree sparrow - = 1</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">song sparrow - = 5</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Baltimore oriole - = 1</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">American goldfinch - = 5</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">house sparrow - = 13</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica"><b>red squirrel - 2 together </b>(but not chasing one = another) in same tree</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">--------------------------</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica"><b>The feeder where the Baltimore oriole</b> was seen = is at <b>390 Nesbitt Street</b>, very close to the old textile factory = north of Hwy. 101 -- at the main Windsor exit at the Windsor end of the = causeway -- drive north past the tourist bureau and then east and look = for the sign for Nesbitt Street. Park at the corner and walk in = just 4 houses on the factory side of the road -- <b>Glen Burbidge</b> is = the home owner, <b>798-5248</b> -- I chatted with him, and ***** he = should be recruited for next year as a feeder-watcher for the Count = *****.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">I was one of about a dozen or more participants who = repaired to the Brooklyn home of Beth and Frank Woolaver again this year = -- THANKS FROM ALL! -- for the <b>post-count warm pot-luck repast and = tally</b> after dark. Our preliminary tally had<b> 49 species for = Count Day</b> plus one more for <b>Count Week (barred owl)</b>(these = totals are sure to grow somewhat with other reports to come), with some = selected notes as follows as I recall them:</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica"><b>Eurasian wigeon</b> - male seen by myself at Windsor = sewage ponds</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">wood duck (Allistons, at = Falmouth reservoir)</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">common = merganser seen</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">northern harrier = seen</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">sharp-shinned hawk = seen</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">rough-legged hawk = seen</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">no notable = gulls</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">American robins seen by = several observers</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">cedar = waxwings seen (as well as Bohemians)(some with robins)</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica"><b>PINE WARBLER (Angela Joudrey's</b> seen and = photographed by her and also <span class=3D"Apple-tab-span" = style=3D"white-space:pre"> </span>seen today by compiler Pat = Kelly)</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">northern cardinal -- some = seen</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">chipping sparrow = seen</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Savannah sparrow = seen </font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">snow bunting - at least one = seen, at a feeder, I think</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Baltimore = oriole - seen at feeder in Windsor by myself</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">white-winged crossbill seen</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">common redpolls seen by more than one = group</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">no pine siskins reported yet = by tally group</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">evening grosbeaks were = seen</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">-------------------------- = </font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica"><b>TWO MORE CURRENT BIRD REPORTS:</b></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><b></b><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>PINE = WARBLER IN WOLFVILLE </b>-- Sherman Bleakney has now photographed his = bird, seen off and on since Dec. 16, and lately it has been seen daily = at his suet feeder in his back yard, at the top end (last house on west = side) of Kent Ave., which goes south from Main St., well west of the = Acadia Univ. campus.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica"><b>RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD</b> -- Martin Thomas has a = single female at his feeder, north of Port Williams, in a subdivision = just east of Hwy. 358 and just south of the Canard River dykelands -- = the subdivision used to be appropriately called Canard Acres -- his = phone number is 542-4484. </font></div> </body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_AN2ESsgFdRMSljIU3LIk9w)--
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