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Let me introduce myself first. My name is John Grant McLoughlin. This is my first winter on the naturens list, as I live in Fredericton, NB. However, I have been spending some time on the South Shore of NS for brief intervals since November and thus, wanted to learn more about birds and nature in NS. I had the opportunity to participate in the Christmas count in Lunenburg and see the sandhill crane outside the count circle. I'm grateful for those opportunities. The postings concerning purple finches prompted me to write at this time. It has been fascinating to follow the differences in winter birds. Here we have had purple finches in the backyard on and off since late January/early Feb with as many as a dozen or so at that time. Today there are 6 purple finches and yet there are many days with none. Our backyard birds that have been regularly seen thus far in 2007 include among them goldfinches (the most common bird here this winter), downy and occasionally hairy woodpeckers, red breasted nuthatches (not a single white breasted nuthatch this winter), juncos (though they seem to have been absent just this past week), mourning doves, black capped chickadees, purple finches, and a pair of cardinals (that appear in the yard every few days but can be heard in the neighbourhood more often). The regular visits of the yellow rumped warbler since December are most noteworthy. The yellow rumped warbler visited earlier today and a few times yesterday. Curiously this is the third successive winter in which a yellow rumped warbler has regularly appeared in the yard - usually seen two or three times weekly. I feel fortunate for this curious circumstance as sightings of yellow rumped warblers in winter are uncommon. I look forward to reading more about nature in Nova Scotia and hope that this diversion into another geographical area has been of interest to some of you. Thanks John Grant McLoughlin
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