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- Newsgroups: rec.birds
- Path: sparky!uunet!well!lp
- From: lp@well.sf.ca.us (Lily Pond)
- Subject: A New Bird!!!
- Message-ID: <C04yEv.34y@well.sf.ca.us>
- Sender: news@well.sf.ca.us
- Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:08:54 GMT
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- What an exciting moment! I saw a new (to me, of course) bird - one that
- though the book says it's common I've never seen or even heard of before!
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- A Ruby-Crowned Kinglet!
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- Cute little thing - sort of that pudgy little shape of a chickadee or a
- bushtit but bigger - though not as big as a house finch. Bit black eye with
- big white ring around it - makes the eyes look enormous! Slightly mustardy
- gray unspeckled belly, and slightly mustardy wings. And the most surprising
- and delightful irridescent pinkish-reddish-orangish stripe on the top[ of
- its head!! I thought I was seeing things at first!
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- Right here in my backyard in Berkeley. :^)
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