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From: daleh@tekcae.UUCP (Dale Henrichs)
Newsgroups: net.rec.birds
Subject: A bird in hand...
Message-ID: <74@tekcae.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-May-84 00:53:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: tekcae.74
Posted: Mon May 28 00:53:56 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 26-May-84 11:52:51 EDT
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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I got my first pair of binoculars last November, and ever since then
I have spent almost every weekend wandering around our two acres of
woods watching the birds and lately watching spring arrive.

Within the last few weeks, I've seen:
	rufous hummingbird	(bzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzZZZZZZZZZZ)
	purple finch		(while staring at a family of finches in an 
				 oak tree, I got buzzed by a hummingbird, 
				 and had the sh*t scared out of me - he flew 
				 within an inch of my ear!!!!)
	black-headed grosbeak	(looks like an oriole with a finch beak)
	american goldfinch	(noisy little guy)
	western tanager		(saw this one, just this evening.  thought
				 he was a goldfinch, until I saw the red 
				 head)
	yellow-throated warbler	(the lone ranger of birds)
	yellow-rumped warbler 	(both the Audobon's and MacGillivray's)
	orange-crowned warbler	(shy little guy)
	pileated woodpecker	(sitting on a nearby telephone pole - I don't 
				 think he found very many bugs there)
	red-breasted nuthatch	(this guy doesn't know which way's up)

and at the coast:
	cormorants 		(probably Brandt's)
	pigeon guillemot
	white-winged scoter
	common loon
	western grebe

Dale Henrichs
Beaverton, Oregon
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