Fw: [NatureNS] REDWING still in same place,

Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:08:54 -0400
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "dowitcher" <dowitcher@eastlink.ca>
To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: [NatureNS] REDWING still in same place, seen by six of us this 
morning


> 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.
>      brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
>
> ----- 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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