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>Date:         Mon, 28 Mar 2005 09:01:35 -0500
>Reply-To: Bill Shepard <[log in to unmask]>
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>Had a hunch that I would hear a Woodcock Friday eve. sure enough, at the
>low-light intensity, about 6:30.. I wandered outside and was rewarded
>with two singing and aerial displaying males.   Ah spring.
>
>Yesterday..on a walk on a dirt road to the Un Village dam we spotted a
>season first butterfly. Nice tan band/border on the hind wing, dark,
>with some minor spots.  So fun to see, a Mourning Cloak.
>
>
>Bill Shepard
>
>Connecticut River Birding Trail
>Project Coordinator
>104 Railroad Row
>White River Junction, VT  05001
>802  291-9100  x 107
>   (office and email days: Mon and Wed or Thur.)
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