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From: Chris McCreedy
Date: 23 Dec 2007
Time: 17:53:04 -0500
Remote Name: 65.241.2.253
I sloshed around the Wilson Creek delta this morning and found a rust morph Red-tailed Hawk, a Golden Eagle in a tree, a male Ruby-crowned Kinglet, and a circling Wilson's Snipe. Something rare: a Hermit Thrush. I heard its call first. Sibley calls it a "low soft dry CHUP," and the Nat Geo calls it a "deeper CHUCK." I love birds. Anyway, nothing else out there at this time of the year sounds close save meadowlarks. Then it flinched and jumped out of the narrowleaf willow and I saw its brown back and oxidized tail, and meadowlarks are yellow and much bigger/fatter.