<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">About noon during today's Christmas Bird count, Joe Conley and I located an adult male snowy (the whitest bird I've ever personally seen) on the irrigation equipment about 1/4 mile East of Hwy 25 and just North of 85th St. NE (Cty 106). <br><br>Safest and easiest viewing was from 85th St. NE.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">A scope was required to get a good look at the bird because the irrigation equipment is about 1/4 mile in from the road.  <br clear="all"></div><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Sincerely,<br><br>Jim Ryan <br>Vadnais Heights<br>----<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.- </span><a href="http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/robert_johnson_quotes.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,238);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Robert Johnson</span></a></font></p><font><br><a href="http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/robert_johnson_quotes.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,238);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline"></span></a><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline">Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway.- </span><a href="http://www.famousquotesandauthors.com/authors/mignon_mclaughlin_quotes.html" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Georgia;color:rgb(0,0,238);background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Mignon McLaughlin</span></a></font><br>----<br></div></div></div></div>
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