[birdky] Hermit thrush, etc.

I saw a hermit thrush and 2 wood ducks on a walk to the creek this afternoon. 
Also found a patch of Dutchman's breeches. Years ago I found a patch of 
Dutchman's breeches along the same stretch of creek but thought it was 
destroyed when the landowner bulldozed a tapered approach to the creek for the 
purpose of setting up an irrigation rig. He's dead and gone now and I know for 
certain he never used that tapered approach but one time to set up an 
irrigation rig. I'm glad I was mistaken about him destroying the Dutchman's 
breeches patch. 
  This morning I watched a coyote for maybe ten minutes from a range of less 
than a tenth of a mile. It snuffled all around where I had been feeding hay 
rolls, probably looking for baby calf crap. Then it crossed under an electric 
fence into the clover, where it walked along very slowly, stopping and 
listening every few steps. Mouse hunting there, I guess. It never saw me, but 
when it worked its way down to where the breeze was blowing my scent its way, 
it suddenly took off in a lope and disappeared. 
Frank Lyne frank@xxxxxxxxxxx near Dot in Logan County

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