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["IE Ries" <featherchaser@xxxxxxxxxx>]

  Greetings, all!

  Was down in Georgia for a little mini-vacation Friday through Monday, and it 
was VERY quiet down there, bird-wise.  I think the birds flew through ahead of 
a front and the hurricane, but I did manage to spot a Loggerhead Shrike on a 
powerline (life bird for me) while in the foothills of the mountains.

  There won't be as many daytime, weekday birding notes from me as I started my 
new job today *sniffle*  However, I'm now working in Petersburg and on the 
grounds where 4 agencies are housed on state land; a good portion of it is 
forested and wooded.  Last week a Brown Thrasher and a Redshouldered Hawk 
popped out from the woodline to greet me while I was there to do some 
preliminary paperwork.  So, there's lunchtime birding in the works, 
opportunities for me to put up some window birdfeeders, and do some birding on 
they way home (and for those of you on the I-85/I-95 route home, if you want to 
do that, let me know).  Today driving home on RT 288 toward Chesterfield, I saw 
a Baldie fly over the highway on some serious Baldie business.  Nice ending to 
my first day at my new job :)

  Cheers,

  Irene in Southside

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