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["Ann Morgan" <marianandann@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

    Good news from Hopkins County.  The Bald Eagles have not abandoned their 
nest as we had feared.    We finally managed to go by when both birds were on 
the nest and they appeared to be feeding young.  We had the good luck to 
accidentally find out that a former student of mine and his dad are leasing the 
farm where the eagles are nesting and they have  erected a  no-trespassing sign 
and  wire posts at the entrance to the wheat field to protect the eagles.  They 
gave us permission to scope from a site on a side road and we got some pretty 
good views. (It is amazing that the eagles are still there.  They have endured 
having all of the trees cut beneath the wires along the side of the very 
heavily traveled road and some other intrusions.) 
    We still have a Red-breasted Nuthatch visiting our feeder daily and today 
we had a  Yellow-Rumped Warbler on the suet.
                                                                                
                    Ann Morgan