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May 2, 2007 - A hilarious image greeted me when I looked out at our Wolfville feeders in the afternoon. Several feeders are on a cast-iron double shepherdıs crook (for hanging flower-pots), and hanging from the centre of one of the crooks was a mesh bag containing a sunflower-seed bell. Well, also hanging down, and suspended from its hind paws, was an upside-down RED SQUIRREL who was feeding on the bell seeds! The pole from the ground must be just rough enough on its outside in order for the squirrel to climb it up to the crooks. (My other shepherdıs crook is fortified at its base with a wooden stake, so the squirrel dashes up that one very easily.) Partly because Ted Wolkowski mentioned hearing CHIMNEY SWIFTS in Wolfville on April 30/07, I spent a half-hour at dusk at the Nature Centre chimney, starting at Sunset (8:20 p.m.). I might well have been too late for any swifts, since the 11 C. temperature was quite cool with a nw. breeze. Any swifts present may well have gone in the chimney before I arrived. I departed at 8:55 p.m., having seen only a single starling. This afternoon partly cleared and warmed up to 15 C. 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> ---------------------- "Humans aren't the only species on the earth -- we just act like it. " -- gotten from Linda Lusby -- souce unknown?? -------------
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