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[StephenDEccles@xxxxxxx]

My annual fall birdwalk for the neighbours provided an unexpected pleasure 
for me this morning, after everyone else had gone home: a perched adult male 
Merlin, on which I could put the telescope. I have seen one or two merlins 
previously in my local patch (NV suburbia, between Annandale and Fairfax), 
but always as something flashing down the powerline right-of-way.

Also noteworthy is that my local stream retains at least one Green Heron.

Stephen Eccles 


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