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["Bert Hale" <blhale@xxxxxxxx>]

Welcome new young birders to the bird list. Mike and Carol Miller of Silver 
Grove
Road Bluff City, TN have joined the bird list. They are new birders with lots of
enthusiasm. Yesterday , Jan 10 I told them to study the sparrows. For years 
all brown birds were song sparrows to me (most still are), but they should have 
some white throats at their feeders.

Well this morning carol called and said she had a "bunch" of white crowned 
sparrows at the feeders. Ho Ho Ho! I live within a mile of them and havean't 
had 
a white crown for over five years. 

To show her the difference I motored down and was greeted with an invite into
the kitchen with awonderful view of three feeders. And what to my wondering 
eyes should appear but a "bunch" of white crowned sparrows. They had song 
sparrows,
wrens, juncos and the usual, but not one white throat sparrow. 

Carol is a retired Sullivan County teacher and Mike is retired from THE Eastman.
Oh to be young again! .

Bert Hale
Bluff City, TN

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