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Jan. 28, 2007 - After having gone to the Sheffield Mills Eagle Watch, Wendy & Bob McDonald at Grand Pre found HORNED LARKS and a SAVANNAH SPARROW, and Suzanne Borkowski reported as follows: ŗSaw lots of eagles, red-tails, ravens, etc. On the way up (on #358 just after Saxon Street and before #221) we saw an adult male PEREGRINE FALCON. Before turning off the #101 we saw a NORTHERN HARRIER. Great day for raptors!˛ At our feeders today, 2 FLICKERS; the female has been regular recently, but the male was new to us. During our walk in Wolfville at noon, about three blocks west of home we encountered a very loud group of BLUE JAYS that were obviously scolding something -- it was a large female imm. SHARP-SHINNED HAWK. We got great looks at it in flight when it flushed, and it quickly returned to the same perch briefly, before giving us another lesson of how its flight looked. Today at the Canning Aboiteau (Habitant River), Brenda and Bill Thexton found an impressive flock of about 500 CANADA GEESE. Jan. 31, 2007 - Our Wolfville feeders were graced with a lovely surprise, a male PURPLE FINCH. Jake MacDonald of lower Maple Ave., Wolfville, had a recent encounter with a large GOSHAWK -- he says hešs sure of the identification. The goshawk crashed into a window-screen on his house, quickly recovered, and then flew to perch within Jakešs sight. He was surprised to see that the MOURNING DOVE it had grabbed was still in its talons! 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! -- from poem by Eleanor Roosevelt. ----------------------
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