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Aug. 16, 2007 - In east Wolfville, Brenda Thexton saw a HAIRY WOODPECKER JUVENILE today with red on the front of the top of the head. I guess this is only evidence of PROBABLE breeding in my square? Aug. 17, 2007 - At about 5:00 p.m., in the centre of Wolfville town, I looked up to see, high in the blue clear sky, a large flock of GULLS, probably mostly herring gulls?, that were clearly not just soaring but actively FLYCATCHING. Whenever I see that, I suspect FLYING ANTS (reproductives), and, a couple minutes later at my parked car, I saw a single large female winged ant. On a Sunny evening at home, I was surprised to see, at the top of a tree on dead branches in the open, an OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER, actively flycatching just like its name says. This was at long range with the binoculars in bright Sun, and the dark sides plus very white mid-underparts are quite distinctive. The head was noticeably peaked in shape, but no other details could be seen at that range. Also for the last two evenings, we have seen large flocks of mixed STARLINGS and BLACKBIRDS (red-winged?)(and probably also grackles?) flying high over our house in Wolfville between 7:15 and 7:40 p.m., all headed in a southeast direction (toward some pre-roosting location). 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> ---------------------- ³There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.² -- Mark Twain ----------------------
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