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for someone who has not seen the bird i just felt sick when i read your
message
we all surrounded the said bush and flushed the redwing out.
thats what happened to the painted bunting and the
mountain bluebird up this way they got drove away.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
To: "NatureNS" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 2:59 PM
Subject: [NatureNS] REDWING still in same place, seen by six of us this
morning
> Dec. 5, 2006 -- On the cold, snowy morning after oodles of traffic
> problems
> from our first real snow-fall of the winter, Luke DeCicco and I drove all
> the way from Wolfville to Liverpool, actually Brooklyn, to look for the
> European REDWING thrush, first reported Dec. 2 by Dorothy Poole and then
> seen by several others on Dec. 3 or 4. When we got to the Brooklyn
> Baptist
> Church and house #33 on Shore Road, Hans Toom, Bernice Moores, Don
> McNeill,
> and Peter Hope were also there.
>
> There was lots of bird activity in the area, mostly C. GRACKLES (with the
> odd RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD), STARLINGS, and BLUE JAYS; other birds noted
> included a BALTIMORE ORIOLE (not seen well by me), ROCK PIGEONS, MOURNING
> DOVE, AM. TREE SPARROW, D.-E. JUNCO, plus DUCKS (mallards, blacks) in the
> water by the Bowater-Mersey Newsprint Mill (for Washington Post, says Pete
> Hope), including 2 male C. GOLDENEYES.
>
> Despite waiting and watching and walking a bit by all of us, nobody could
> find the REDWING for at least an hour (or two hours for some). Then Don
> and
> Pete walked behind house #33 -- the oriole had been seen going in and out
> of
> an ornomental holly bush laden with berries next to the house, and
> eventually Pete let out an exclamation, ³ITıs (the REDWING) in the holly
> bush!²
>
> Then we all surrounded and approached said bush, and then indeed the
> REDWING
> flushed out of there and flew just a short distance to perch in the open
> in
> a small deciduous tree, where we all got quite good looks.
>
> Thank-yous to Dorothy Poole and others who reported it and its location
> for
> well for all of us.
>
> Having gotten an early start from Wolfville (much too early for this late
> sleeper), Luke and I were back in Wolfville by about 12:30 p.m., after a
> very satisfying ³wild goose chase².
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