<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Pamela,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div>Actually if you send the photo thru Merlin you should get a good ID. Merlin is a free app from Cornell, if you haven’t used this app yet. I use it daily for sound ID to be sure I’m not missing anything - my hearing is selective to higher pitched sounds and I miss things like doves and cuckoos.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Charlene Nelson</div><div class="">Grant County fa<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jul 23, 2024, at 10:34 AM, Laura Erickson via Mnbird <<a href="mailto:mnbird@lists.mnbird.net" class="">mnbird@lists.mnbird.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Yes, this is definitely a juvenile American Robin. Many of them don't have such a strong malar stripe.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Laura Erickson</div><div class="">Duluth</div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 23, 2024 at 8:20 AM Pamela Brustman via Mnbird <<a href="mailto:mnbird@lists.mnbird.net" class="">mnbird@lists.mnbird.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto" class="">Yesterday I saw a robin with strange markings and determined that it is a varied thrush. I got another sighting this morning as it foraged in my front lawn. <div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""><span id="cid:ii_190df9c228b7802778e1"><1000002020.jpg></span><br class="">This is in St Michael, Wright County. A lifer for me.</div></div>
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