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Re: [CT Birds] Simsbury Farms- good birds today- Merlin

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Steve Ballentine
Tue, Mar 4, 2008 3:09 AM

From Steve Ballentine:

A correction- upon getting home, downloading my photos and doing a big crop
to get a real good look at the bird it turns out that what I thought from a
distance was a Kestrel was actually a Merlin!


From: Steve Ballentine [mailto:list@ballentine-capital.com]
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 1:30 PM
To: 'CT Bird list (ctbirds@lists.ctbirding.org)'
Subject: Simsbury Farms- good birds today

From Steve Ballentine

3/3 - Simsbury -- Pine Grosbeaks continue at Simsbury Farms, north of ice
rink. I saw 10, incl one male, between 11am-11:45am.
Also an American Kestrel teed up at top of tree 40 yards northeast of rink
and a Northern Shrike teed up at top of tree 25 yards southwest of rink.

>From Steve Ballentine: A correction- upon getting home, downloading my photos and doing a big crop to get a real good look at the bird it turns out that what I thought from a distance was a Kestrel was actually a Merlin! _____ From: Steve Ballentine [mailto:list@ballentine-capital.com] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 1:30 PM To: 'CT Bird list (ctbirds@lists.ctbirding.org)' Subject: Simsbury Farms- good birds today >From Steve Ballentine 3/3 - Simsbury -- Pine Grosbeaks continue at Simsbury Farms, north of ice rink. I saw 10, incl one male, between 11am-11:45am. Also an American Kestrel teed up at top of tree 40 yards northeast of rink and a Northern Shrike teed up at top of tree 25 yards southwest of rink.