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Love it!<br><br><br><div class="yahoo-signature"><a style="font-size:12px" href="https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_Internal_EmailSignature&af_sub1=Acquisition&af_sub2=Global_YMktg&af_sub3=&af_sub4=100000604&af_sub5=EmailSignature__Static_">Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone</a><br></div><br><p class="yahoo-quoted-begin" style="font-size: 15px; color: rgb(132, 115, 255); padding-top: 15px; margin-top: 0px;">On Wednesday, June 26, 2024, 2:05 PM, John Hamer via Mnbird <mnbird@lists.mnbird.net> wrote:</p><blockquote class="iosymail"><div id="yiv0692188839"><div><div dir="ltr">Sounds great. I have taken over the bird feeders for the Glenn. The spot where they have the feeders is right next to a ten foot long brush. It is perfect for the sparrows except for the cooper's hawk. He/she comes around the corner about one foot off the ground moving fast, sweeps into the shrubs and comes out with a meal.<div><br clear="none"></div><div>I can't seem to enrich the variety. Any thoughts. I discovered a chipping sparrow yesterday.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>John Hamer</div></div><br clear="none"><div class="yiv0692188839gmail_quote"><div id="yiv0692188839yqt18443" class="yiv0692188839yqt6909301388"><div dir="ltr" class="yiv0692188839gmail_attr">On Wed, Jun 26, 2024 at 1:25 PM Allen Batt via Mnbird <<a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:mnbird@lists.mnbird.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:mnbird@lists.mnbird.net">mnbird@lists.mnbird.net</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;" class="yiv0692188839gmail_quote"><div><div> On a rare night without rain, I watched a baseball game at Mueller Park in New Ulm and listened to Common Nighthawks flying overhead and calling for “beans,” but eating flying insects instead.</div><div> At home, I watched two suet holders do a thriving business. The birds I saw feeding on suet over the week were: Brown Thrasher, Gray Catbird, Red-headed Woodpecker, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, European Starling, House Sparrow, Common Grackle, White-breasted Nuthatch, Baltimore Oriole, Blue Jay and that gold standard of birds, the Black-capped Chickadee. </div><div> A Hairy Woodpecker male displayed noisily with his bill pointed upward and bobbing from side to side of the suet feeder.</div><div> I found a Red-winged Blackbird nest with three eggs (blue with black markings) in it, which was 2 feet off the ground in a Canada Thistle in a prairie planting. </div><div> In Disney’s animated version of “Alice in Wonderland,” the White Rabbit sang, “I'm late, I'm late, for a very important date! No time to say ‘Hello,’ goodbye! I'm late, I'm late, I'm late!” </div><div> My yard’s version of the White Rabbit was a late Blackburnian Warbler here on June 19. It posed for a photo, noticed the time and fled the scene.</div><div> A Eurasian Tree Sparrow has been a recurring guest star on the suet feeders.</div><div dir="ltr"><div><br clear="none"><div><h1 style="margin:0px 0px 15px;font-weight:normal;padding:0px;line-height:21px;"><span style="font-size: 17.3333px;">“Do something wild today. Look at a bird.” — Al Batt, Freeborn County</span></h1></div></div><div></div><div><h2 style="line-height:1.4em;margin:0px 0px 0.5em;">
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