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Suzanne Borkowski and I travelled from Halifax this morning trying to beat the rain in an attempt to see the Redwing. We arrived in Brooklyn around 11:00 AM and spent 2 hours patrolling around house #33, down the road, up the road, scanning all the trees. We found the flock of Grackles but no orioles or waxwing. Every few min we would go back to check out the holly bush but to no avail. Finally at 1 we broke for lunch at Tims in Liverpool. On our return to Brooklyn, the heavens opened and our hearts sank. What was the chance of seeing this elusive bird under these conditions? After about 15-20 min of downpour, the rain became a trickle and I decided to walk up the driveway and check out the other side of the holly bush. I could see some movement at last and finally the bird emerged, for about 15 sec. Hot-footing it back to the car to alert Suzanne and get the camera, I found out that S. had been able to see the bird from the road. Mr Gardner invited us into the house so we were able to get some closer views but always quite obscured by branches. I had missed my best chance for a decent picture. Chris Field arrived and was able to get a glimpse of the bird within 5 min. Lucky Chris!! We left the bird quite content hunkered down again in the middle of the holly probably where it had spent the morning looking at us!! We did keep Eric's comments below in mind during our search. Cheers, Bob McDonald ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric L. Mills" <e.mills@dal.ca> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Cc: <ns-RBA@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 8:28 AM Subject: [NatureNS] Treating the Redwing with respect > After reading some recent accounts of observations of the Redwing in > Brooklyn, I would like > to ask birders who go to look for it to give the bird some space. Waiting > for it to appear, even > if that takes some time waiting at a distance, is preferable to disturbing > it and running the risk > that it will move on, or worse, fall prey to a predator or stress during > cold weather. > Eric
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