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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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