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Yesterday afternoon I birded in the rain in Chippewa and Yellow Medicine C= ounties and along Co. Rd. 40 just SE of Granite Falls I found a cluster of = birds that included 3 grosbeaks on the SW side of the road on private prope= rty. One of them looked just like the picture in Sibley's of a male Black-= headed Grosbeak in fall plumage. The body of the bird was a rich rufous co= lor and the head had the contrasting black and white markings shown in the = picture. I did not see any streaking on the front of the bird. I was able= to get good and long looks at the bird, but from quite a distance and on a= dark and dreary day. This morning I saw many more grosbeaks at a differen= t location in Redwood County and none of them looked like this bird. The C= hippewa County location was along Co. Rd. 40 south of US 212/Hwy 23 and jus= t north of Gneiss Outcrops SNA. There is a low-lying farm area with a smal= l wetland and a fence line with a tangle of trees across the road from a fa= rm field with a private residence at the north end. I'm sorry for the late= post and the poor directions. Bob Williams, Bloomington =20 --_16678636-6D04-406D-9073-6A73DDB619F1_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <HTML dir=3Dltr><HEAD></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#000000 size=3D2> Yesterday afternoon = I birded in the rain in Chippewa and Yellow Medicine Counties and along Co.= Rd. 40 just SE of Granite Falls I found a cluster of birds that included 3= grosbeaks on the SW side of the road on private property. One of the= m looked just like the picture in Sibley's of a male Black-headed Grosbeak = in fall plumage. The body of the bird was a rich rufous color and the= head had the contrasting black and white markings shown in the picture.&nb= sp; I did not see any streaking on the front of the bird. I was able = to get good and long looks at the bird, but from quite a distance and on a = dark and dreary day. This morning I saw many more grosbeaks at a diff= erent location in Redwood County and none of them looked like this bird.&nb= sp; The Chippewa County location was along Co. Rd. 40 south of US 212/Hwy 2= 3 and just north of Gneiss Outcrops SNA. There is a low-lying farm ar= ea with a small wetland and a fence line with a tangle of trees across the = road from a farm field with a private residence at the north end. I'm= sorry for the late post and the poor directions.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Bob Williams, Bloomington&= nbsp; </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> --_16678636-6D04-406D-9073-6A73DDB619F1_--
