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Aug. 8, 2006 - A few days ago I got a report of an adult NORTHERN CARDINAL showing up at a feeder in east Wolfville with 3 fledged youngsters. My informant wishes to be anonymous, but back in Spring and very early Summer there had been adult CARDINALS with 2 successive broods, each of a single juvenile. Then no cardinals at all until just recently. Just today I spoke with Glenys Gibson of Canning on the same subject. She and Ian Patterson since the Summer of 2005 or earlier have had CARDINALS coming to their feeder and breeding on their property. Last year there were 2 broods. This year again there have been 2 batches of fledged young, and now she suspects they are raising a 3rd brood. They hear singing all the time, and she also mentioned having heard DUETTING CARDINALS, and we wonder if that might be the male and female singing alternately? This past winter there were two separate males, seen once together, but now she thinks there is just one male. Glenys also knows of other CARDINALS in east Canning. Glenys also told me that very recently they had at least 6 BATS (presumably little brown bats) flying around inside their house, and 2 of them were in the wood stove. These were caught in an insect net and evicted, no doubt just temporarily? Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204 --------------------- Jim (James W.) Wolford 91 Wickwire Avenue Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada B4P 1W3 phone (902)542-9204 (home) fax (902)585-1059 (Acadia Univ. Biology Dept.) e-mail <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> ---------------------- ³In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.² -- John Muir ---------------------- ³In wildness is the preservation of the world.² -- Henry David Thoreau ---------------------- ³...... the Earth .....belongs as much to those who come after us as to us; and we have no right, by anything that we do, or neglect to do, to involve them in unnecessary penalties, or to deprive them of benefits which are theirs by right.² - John Ruskin ----------------------
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