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1. 27 May 2009 at 7:53 pm

   GG says:

   This is as good a place as any to say… last week in the U.P. I saw…

   Golden Eagle
   Immature Bald Eagle
   Osprey
   Broad-wing Hawks
   Sharp Shinned Hawks
   Rough Legged Hawks
   Coopers Hawk
   Swainsons Hawk (probable)
   Turkey Vultures
   Ravens
   Crows

   Great Blue Herons
   Sand Hill Cranes
   Green Heron
   Least Bittern (at Lake Erie three weeks ago)

   Devians
   Piping Plovers (rare and endangered)
   Kildeer
   other sandpipers
   Common Loons

   Canada Geese
   other geese…

   Merganzer Ducks
   Mallard Ducks (of course)
   other ducks

   Double-crested Cormorants

   Spruce Grouse (great pictures!!!)

   Herring Gulls
   Ring Billed Gulls
   other gulls of course
   pretty gulls (girls – chicks of another kind of course)

   Chaffinches (European Stray)
   Least Flycatcher
   Purple Finch
   Goldfinchs

   Gray Cheeked Thrush
   Swainsons Thrush
   Robins (a kind of thrush)

   Thousands of Bluejays in flocks
   Northern Cardinals

   White Crowned Sparrows (male and female)
   White-Throated Sparrrows
   House Sparrows
   other sparrows

   Blackburnian Warblers
   Magnolia Warblers
   Yellow Rumped Warblers
   Black-throated Green Warbler
   Black-and-white Warbler
   other warblers

   Tufted Titmice

   Rose-breasted Grosbeaks
   Evening Grosbeaks
   Baltimore Oriels
   Scarlet Tanagers

   Tree Swallows
   Cliff Swallows

   Black-capped Chickadee
   Nuthatch

   unidentifed Vireo

   Ruby Throat Hummingbird

   unidentifed woodpecker
   Pileated Woodpecker (in April at the Soo)
   Redbellied Woodpecker (in Ann Arbor)
   no Flickers, Sapsuckers, Hairy, or Downey Woodpeckers!!!

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