Had a pleasant surprise yesterday morning while pruning the grape vines -- 
a first of the year Field Sparrow singing from the east end of our 
property. And, a little bit later, a single Rusty Blackbird calling from 
the top of a tree at the edge of the neighbor's woods.

Kurt Knebusch
1 mile e. of Nashville, w. Holmes County

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