[NatureNS] Robins, etc., Halifax

Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 08:22:09 -0400
From: Eleanor Lindsay <az678@chebucto.ns.ca>
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I too, in St Margarets Bay, have had many more robins than usual here 
for this time of year (approx 40-50). They are eating not only 
multiflora rose hips, but also holly berries, which they have previously 
always left as a last resort for February and March.
Eleanor Lindsay, Seabright

iamclar@dal.ca wrote:
> All:
>
> A stroll around the Waegwoltic Club, Thornvale Ave., and behind the Armbrae
> Academy (all W-end Halifax bird magnets at this season) produced hundreds of
> robins, now turning to less succulent fare like hawthhorn and multiflora rose
> hips. Some were "Black-backed."  There was a also one group of c. 15 Cedar
> Waxwings, and a belated Swainson's Thrush, still retaining some juvenal
> pluamge, on private property off Thornvale. It was not fraternizing with the
> robins.
>
> Cheeers< ain M.
>
>
>
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