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Skip's Corner  02/27/2017

2/27/2017

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I’d like to post a remarkable bird sighting.  Warrensy, Pete, and Sharon will be interested and perhaps others.
My sighting happened last November 26 at Whistling Straits Golf Course, just north of Sheboygan, where Lynn and I had gone for lunch.  The day was cold and windy, not the weather or climate or even the state of the union- far north of their usual haunts- in which one would expect to see a MOCKINGBIRD.  But there in a tree just outside the restaurant, facing into a cold wind off Lake Michigan, perched this plucky bird.  Who knows why it was here or whether it was planning to bravely face a Wisconsin winter, or, better,  get the hell south pronto.   
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Mockingbirds are amazingly tough, hardy, resourceful birds.  I watched a single mockingbird cow 50 starlings into submission at a bird feeder in Virginia.  After being routed, the starlings perched around in trees at respectful distances until mockingbird had had its fill.  But surviving a Wisconsin winter takes different skills than scaring starlings and I wonder if this bird has made it through this far?

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R T WALLEN

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