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--_2aa872f9-dad3-4ff7-8b49-caf6609905e3_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all: =20 I noticed after dark last night at the Lunenburg Folk Harbour festival that= there were lots of bird calls showing that migrants were on the move overh= ead. This evening I saw my first flock of about 40 common grackles travell= ing with a huge flock of European starlings. A number of other large group= s of starlings also passed by. =20 =20 Before I mention the next thing I'll need to supply a little bit of history= . For those of you who are Folk music oriented=2C you might not have heard= that Ron Hynes has throat cancer and has had to cancel performances. He w= as part of the Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival line-up this year=2C but due= to the new development he was not able to come. Tonight a lot of the othe= r performers put on a tribute for Ron. It was really great=2C but everytim= e someone would sing one of Ron's songs somewhere throughout the song a mal= e northern cardinal would call a number of times. Now there is always the = possibility that someone hasd an ipod with a bird ap on it and was playing = a joke on me=2C but at this point I believe that it was a real cardinal cal= ling. I thought that this was really neat and likely co-incidental. Altho= ugh maybe some pitch in the instruments might have set the cardinal off to = calling. =20 James R. Hirtle Bridgewater = --_2aa872f9-dad3-4ff7-8b49-caf6609905e3_ 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:Tahoma } --></style></head> <body class=3D'hmmessage'><div dir=3D'ltr'> Hi all:<BR>  =3B<BR> I noticed after dark last night at the Lunenburg Folk Harbour festival that= there were lots of bird calls showing that migrants were on the move overh= ead. =3B This evening I saw my first flock of about 40 common grackles = travelling with a huge flock of European starlings. =3B A number of oth= er large groups of starlings also passed by. =3B <BR>  =3B<BR> Before I mention the next thing I'll need to supply a little bit of history= . =3B For those of you who are Folk music oriented=2C you might not hav= e heard that Ron Hynes has throat cancer and has had to cancel performances= . =3B He was part of the Lunenburg Folk Harbour Festival line-up this y= ear=2C but due to the new development he was not able to come. =3B Toni= ght a lot of the other performers put on a tribute for Ron. =3B It was = really great=2C but everytime someone would sing one of Ron's songs somewhe= re throughout the song a male northern cardinal would call a number of time= s. =3B Now there is always the possibility that someone hasd an ipod wi= th a bird ap on it and was playing a joke on me=2C but at this point I beli= eve that it was a real cardinal calling. =3B I thought that this was re= ally neat and likely co-incidental. =3B Although maybe some pitch in th= e instruments might have set the cardinal off to calling.<BR>  =3B<BR> James R. Hirtle<BR> Bridgewater<BR> </div></body> </html>= --_2aa872f9-dad3-4ff7-8b49-caf6609905e3_--
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