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Index of Subjects --_e81321f5-8799-4ad9-8442-e1d1c8502226_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all: =20 I had one of those puzzling bird encounters that we all run into every now = and then. I was driving along the back way into Lunenburg and just before = the turn off to Corkum's Island a bird came across the road in front of my = car like a bullet=2C going about one foot above the ground. It flew over t= he lawn of the house next to me at a rapid pace and it looked like it went = into a tree on the lawn=2C but I could not locate it so apparently it kept = going. Whatever it was the starling flock took flight as did two mallards = along the two nearby properties right after I saw the bird. At least I'm a= ssuming that's what put them up or it could have been co-incidence. Anyhow= =2C the description of the bird is going to sound odd. My perspective was = not optimal and the look was brief. This bird was elongated with short win= gs=2C so very streamlined and thin. It was a tawny brown color and flew li= ke a bullet or projectile. I distinctly got the impression of a cross betw= een a kingfisher maybe or a woodpecker. It reminded me of a torpedo slidin= g through the air. It definitely was not a kingfisher=2C nor do I believe = it was a woodpecker. It was kingfisher size though. =20 =20 I'm thinking maybe the juvenile shrike that had been in the area=2C as a po= ssibility=2C but I've never seen a shrike move or look like the bird that I= saw. It definitely did not move like the juvenile northern shrike that we= had on the Shelburne Christmas Bird Count. I know the description is not = great but any comments or ideas would be appreciated. =20 =20 James R. Hirtle Bridgewater =20 =20 =20 = --_e81321f5-8799-4ad9-8442-e1d1c8502226_ 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: 12pt=3B font-family:Calibri } --></style></head> <body class=3D'hmmessage'><div dir=3D'ltr'><font size=3D"6">Hi all:</font><= BR> =3B<BR><font size=3D"6">I had one of those puzzling bird encounters= that we all run into every now and then. =3B I was driving along the b= ack way into Lunenburg and just before the turn off to Corkum's Island a bi= rd came across the road in front of my car like a bullet=2C going about one= foot above the ground. =3B It flew over the lawn of the house next to = me at a rapid pace and it looked like it went into a tree on the lawn=2C bu= t I could not locate it =3Bso apparently it kept going. =3B Whateve= r it was the starling flock took flight as did two mallards along the = =3Btwo nearby properties right after I saw the bird. =3B At least I'm a= ssuming that's what put them up or it could have been co-incidence. =3B= Anyhow=2C the description of the bird is going to sound odd. =3B My pe= rspective was not optimal =3Band the look was brief. =3B This bird = was elongated with short wings=2C so very streamlined and thin. =3B It = was a tawny brown color and flew like a bullet or projectile. =3B I dis= tinctly got the impression of a cross between a kingfisher maybe or a woodp= ecker. =3B It reminded me of a torpedo sliding through the air. =3B= It definitely was not a kingfisher=2C nor do I believe it was a woodpecker= . =3B It was kingfisher size though. =3B </font><BR><font size=3D"6= "></font> =3B<BR><font size=3D"6">I'm thinking maybe the juvenile shrik= e that had been in the area=2C as a possibility=2C but I've never seen a sh= rike move or look like the bird that I saw. =3B It definitely did not m= ove like the juvenile northern shrike that we had on the Shelburne Christma= s Bird Count. =3B I know the description is not great but any comments = or ideas would be appreciated. =3B </font><BR><font size=3D"6"></font>&= nbsp=3B<BR><font size=3D"6">James R. Hirtle</font><BR><font size=3D"6">Brid= gewater</font><BR><font size=3D"6"></font> =3B<BR><font size=3D"6"></fo= nt> =3B<BR><font size=3D"6"> =3B<br id=3D"FontBreak"></font><BR> = </div></body> </html>= --_e81321f5-8799-4ad9-8442-e1d1c8502226_--
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