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Sarasota News Leader August 23, 2013 on my hat. We chatted a bit; then, I continued my walk. On the way out, my newfound friend landed on my hat again. It is not every day that I am greeted by this rare species TWICE in one hour! Page 74 if he could accompany me. He identified a speck high in the sky (Chuck Will's Widow) and one perched on a distant tree (Rufous-Sided Towhee). Bobwhites we heard scrabbling in the brush. I asked him how he started birding. He said his dad took him birding in Fargo, Birders come to Oscar Scherer from all over ND, where he grew up, and one of the first to add the jays to their "life lists." Recently, I birds he identified was a Snowy Owl. Now he ran into a young man on the Blue Trail who takes his child — a little girl — birding. ran down the list of birds he had already seen, but as of that point, no Scrub Jays. When I On our way out of the park, as if on signal, the mentioned they live along that trail, he asked jays showed up to wish us a good night. Fran Palmeri snaps a photo of herself with a Scrub Jay atop her hat.