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Jan. 22, 2007 - Our female CARDINAL appeared both yesterday and today, and today was foraging under the hanging safflower seed feeder. Also present at our feeders were a FLICKER, blue jays, crow, chickadees, song sparrow, white-throated sparrows (5+), juncos (3+), our Norway rat, a red squirrel, etc. Jan. 23, 2007 - Today, nest to our Wolfville pheasant feeder, was a small SPLOTCH OF BLOOD on the snow -- wishful thinking has us hoping that our Norway rat has now met its demise, perhaps via the talons of a red-tailed hawk that perched high in a tree in our back yard earlier today. Jan. 24, 2007 - Yesterdayıs wishful thinking proved to be wrong today, when I saw a healthy RAT back at my feeders -- it has neat round tunnels in the shallow snow leading right to two of the feeders. Jan. 25, 2007 -- In mid-afternoon I missed an event in our back yard, but luckily Pat was there to see it. Our NORWAY RAT was foraging in the open under the niger feeder, when apparently an immature/yearling RED-TAILED HAWK swooped in and POUNCED ON IT! Then it took its time eating its catch, while Pat looked on. When I got home, all I could find down there were two splotches of blood on the snow plus several small tufts of rat fur. Now weıre hoping we donıt discover that we had more than one rat, like we did in early winter. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204 --------------------- Jim (James W.) Wolford 91 Wickwire Avenue Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada B4P 1W3 phone (902)542-9204 (home) fax (902)585-1059 (Acadia Univ. Biology Dept.) e-mail <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> ---------------------- Yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why they call it the present! -- ?Sue Robertson, Nature Canada ----------------------
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