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shouldered hawk.
Here are the sightings in our county for the month of March: Mimi Cantwell, Aaron Mountain, saw a Pine Siskin; Kay Wilson, Grand View Road, checked in with the Eastern Phoebe (one of our neat flycatchers); Steve Kenny, Washington, and Mary Ann Krammes, Slate Mills, both reported seeing the elusive American Woodcock. Donn Jones reported a sighting of the Chipping Sparrow.
Several reports came in on the Common Grackle; one called in seeing 24 Blackbirds
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