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Date Posted: 17:33:14 12/01/01 Sat
Author: Chuck
Author Host/IP: dialup-bg-205-207.wcnet.org / 63.174.205.207
Subject: Annual Christmas light installation list

Every year I dread hanging Christmas lights on my house. It is getting started that is the hard part. Once I get going it is fine, especially since I started a few years back wearing my binoculars while I get up on my roof. Today I got started as the cold wind rushed past me with heavy clouds over head. For some reason I tend to see quite a few good birds when I am hanging the lights. Today was no different.

As I untangled a string of lights across our yard I heard an unusually nasal honk of a goose. I quickly started running around the yard to get a visual on this bird. I quickly spotted a V-flying formation which was made up of 27 Snow Geese. I was pumped but this didn't help the lights get up any quicker. As I climbed on the roof, I found myself searching the skies for migrants.

Next was a group of Horned Larks followed by several smaller flocks of Lapland Longspurs. Lots of other bird filled the skies, like several flocks of Mallards as well as gulls.

As I wrapped up the light hanging experience, I heard a short call of "Northern" bird. It called again, this time closer. This time I heard the bird better, and I thought - Evening Grosbeak ! I quickly got a visual on the bird and raised my binocs, just as it passed over our roof top. I ran too the other side of the house, but the bird was no where to be found. I was a little excited yet a little bummed cause I never got to see the bird well. This bird is my all time favorite and it has been so hard to come by in this area since '78. I have thought that it would never show up on my property on "woodless" Wood County. I am 99% sure it was a Grosbeak, but I am not satisfied enough to count it on my property list. Maybe next year! At least I have something to inspire me to get those lights out every year from now on.

Pray for a good Finch year !!!!

Chuck

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