Oops -- My bad, guess I bit though I thought it was APRIL 1 that we had to watch out for spoofs on this list! (Bob got me before my morning coffee..)

Spoofs aside, it does not hurt to always consider the possibility in winter of the two European Turdus thrushes, though this yar is singularly poor for Robins which as usually the "carrier" species. Maybe our NE rabins haven't bothered to come south yet...

Gail Mackiernan

p.s. I saw an Emu on a CBC last week but didn't post it!

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Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Fieldfare in Easton
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:43:53 +0000
> It is a spoof, Gail.  The birds are mounted specimens.
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> b