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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zoogoer2000 - Packwatcher" data-source="post: 1916047" data-attributes="member: 85756">What a great birding day! On a visit to the small lagoon today, I had an amazing visit! First off , just as I was approaching, two bluebirds flitted across the road <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> ! and then a yellow shafted northern flicker did too ! Quite a nice arrival I say!Not quite as many barn swallows as usually, but tons of eastern kingbirds! Alot were dipping down into the water for bugsThen, going aroudn the second part of the pond... a either a gadwall or a female wood duck shot up out of the reeds and flew over the forest. It circled around several times before actually going into the forest. I watched for 5 minutes before suddenly, a bald eagle flew out from the trees <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> ! I was so shocked that It took me a couple seconds for me to have it click in my head! I stood speechless/motionless as I watched it soar close to the ground and then disapear back over the forest! Amazing point to a day!On the bike ride home, I saw a cedar waxwing sitting on a powerline, and once home, two turkey vultures soaring aboveGreat day <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> !!</blockquote>

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