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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-22--197757619 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hi Blake, The only yardstick I have are the ones that show up at my feeder in the south-end of Halifax which have not diminished at all during January. Numbers of House Finches and Goldfinches have remained constant and Song Sparrows and Juncos have increased slightly, but I haven't really noticed any trends (based on my extremely limited sample sizes ;->). Cheers, Chris On 19-Jan-07, at 2:22 PM, Blake Maybank wrote: > Hi All; > > For all this autumn and early January I have had many Black-capped > Chickadees making numerous daily visits to by feeders. The visits > are naturally more frequent on cold days, less so on warm ones, but > at least 30+ birds were present, the combined total of several > flocks. However, only one or two birds were noted as of last > Sunday, when it was still warm, and that number has remained fairly > constant since then, despite the downs and ups of the temperature > this week. And flocks of chickadees are also much more scarce on > my walks on local trails in the Prospect Peninsula and Shag End. > > Has anyone else noted a sudden loss of chickadees? > > Cheers, > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- > Blake Maybank > Editor, "Nova Scotia Birds" > > author, "Birding Sites of Nova Scotia" > http://maybank.tripod.com/BSNS.htm > > 144 Bayview Drive > White's Lake, Nova Scotia, > B3T 1Z1, Canada > > maybank@ns.sympatico.ca > (902) 852-2077 > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.0/639 - Release Date: > 18/01/2007 > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. _. Christopher Majka - Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3A6 (902) 424-6435 Email <c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca> _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. _. --Apple-Mail-22--197757619 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 <HTML><BODY style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; = -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi Blake,<DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>The only yardstick I have = are the ones that show up at my feeder in the south-end of Halifax which = have not diminished at all during January. Numbers of House Finches and = Goldfinches have remained constant and Song Sparrows and Juncos have = increased slightly, but I haven't really noticed any trends (based on my = extremely limited sample sizes ;->).</DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Cheers,</DIV><DIV><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Chris</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV= >On 19-Jan-07, at 2:22 PM, Blake Maybank wrote:</DIV><BR = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type=3D"cite"><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">Hi All;</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: = 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">For all this autumn and early = January I have had many Black-capped Chickadees making numerous daily = visits to by feeders. <SPAN class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 = </SPAN>The visits are naturally more frequent on cold days, less so on = warm ones, but at least 30+ birds were present, the combined total of = several flocks.<SPAN class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 </SPAN>However, = only one or two birds were noted as of last Sunday, when it was still = warm, and that number has remained fairly constant since then, despite = the downs and ups of the temperature this week.<SPAN = class=3D"Apple-converted-space">=A0 =A0 </SPAN>And flocks of chickadees = are also much more scarce on my walks on local trails in the Prospect = Peninsula and Shag End.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: = 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Has anyone else noted a sudden = loss of chickadees?</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; = "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Cheers,</DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = ">------------------------------------------------------------------------= -----</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Blake Maybank</DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">Editor, "Nova Scotia Birds"</DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">author, = "Birding Sites of Nova Scotia"</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A = href=3D"http://maybank.tripod.com/BSNS.htm">http://maybank.tripod.com/BSNS= .htm</A></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">144 Bayview Drive</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">White's = Lake, Nova Scotia,</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">B3T 1Z1, Canada</DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A =