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Aug. 9, 2006 - At home in Wolfville in afternoon, there was lots of ³COTTON² floating in the light wind of the air, very probably the COTTONY SEEDS OF ³COTTONWOOD², i.e. BALSAM POPLAR, several of which grow just below our house along Wickwire Ave. on the steep hill. I will need to confirm this tomorrow with binoculars. Brenda Thexton heard from Jake MacDonald of east Wolfville that just yesterday he had a hen PHEASANT who had a brood of seven VERY YOUNG CHICKS in his yard at a feeder. Jake has a QUESTION: he is still hearing CARDINALS singing in the area of his yard, where he has now had at least 3 broods of young (and he had 3 broods last year, too); he heard some cardinal-like notes recently and looked out where he thought it was coming from and all he could see was a male COWBIRD; his question is, do cowbirds mimic other species¹ sounds? and/or can cowbirds who are raised by foster parents such as cardinals adopt some of their sounds as consequences of that upbringing? My own suspicion is that cowbirds are probably physically unable to make such sounds?
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