<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">See message sent to me below. Apparently AMGOs and MODOs are around in some spots. Perhaps not in their usual places due to the early cold? Local seed crops? Good questions!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">---------- Forwarded message ----------</span><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Art Straub</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:artstraub@gmail.com">artstraub@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 3:48 AM<br>Subject: Re: [Mnbird] Goldfinches<br>To: Jim Ryan <<a href="mailto:muchmoredoc@gmail.com">muchmoredoc@gmail.com</a>><br><br><font size="4"><br></font><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><font size="4">Jim....... We had close to a hundred men, women and children spend time either at their feeders or in the hills on December 20th for the Ney CBC:  94 GF's; almost the same number of mourning doves.  Since then GF's have really dropped off, but we have 28 - 32 doves coming intermittently to our ground feeders each day.  That's in<b> Tyrone Township, LeSueur County</b>.</font><div><div class="h5"><br><div><div>On Jan 12, 2015, at 12:54 PM, Jim Ryan wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">I did 4 CBCs this year and Goldfinches were hard to come by in the areas I surveyed (Bloomington, Red Wing, Pine & Wright Counties) We did find more Siskins up north this year.</div><div style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br></div><div style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">I found a good number (12) of Mourning Doves in Wright County. Otherwise, they seemed less widespread than in previous years. </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Joel H. Dunnette <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdunnette@gmail.com" target="_blank">jdunnette@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">We have far fewer goldfinches than we usually have this time of year.<div>What are other folks' finding?<span><font color="#888888"><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div>Joel Dunnette<br><br>Byron / Rochester MN<br><br><a href="tel:507-269-7064" value="+15072697064" target="_blank">507-269-7064</a> </div> </font></span></div></div> <br>_______________________________________________<br> Mnbird mailing list<br> <a href="mailto:Mnbird@lists.mnbird.net" target="_blank">Mnbird@lists.mnbird.net</a><br> <a href="http://lists.mnbird.net/mailman/listinfo/mnbird_lists.mnbird.net" target="_blank">http://lists.mnbird.net/mailman/listinfo/mnbird_lists.mnbird.net</a><br> <br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Sincerely,<br><br>Jim Ryan <br>Vadnais Heights<br>----<br><div 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></div><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> </div> _______________________________________________<br>Mnbird mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Mnbird@lists.mnbird.net" target="_blank">Mnb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