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Joe Faulkner <[log in to unmask]>
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Joe Faulkner <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 9 Mar 2008 09:51:27 -0500
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Fellow trapped birders,

     A Level 3 snow emergency has left me, and many of you, trapped at home
counting yard birds, a fact well documented on this listserve.  The up side
of that is the 40 SPECIES OF BIRDS I saw in the "yard" yesterday.  That's
when I define the entire 60 acre farm as the yard.   When I limit it to the
6 fenced acres, it only 30, with Rusty blackbird, Fox sparrow, Brown creeper
among the best.  A walk in the woods turned up ten more, including EASTERN
PHOEBE, actively hunting in a snow storm, in the wetlands part of the
place.  A year bird, to say the least.

     The down side of being trapped out here was not being able to get to
Somerset  for the paper and a doughnut.   One of the many hardships of
living deep in the woods.  I'm suffering mild withdrawal,  not really helped
by the arrival of  one single House Sparow this morning for a weekend total
of 41, so far.  But, it looks like the doughnut number will not change, and
that is a tough burden to bear.

     If a doughnut does show up, I'll be sure to post it here, and dress it
up with a few bird reports to make it legal.


Joe in the woods
Somerset, Perry County

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