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Index of Subjects I have three squirrels in my yard this year that devour the seed as fast as I can put it out. It is interesting to see them eating nyger seed out of the tiny holes that are in the goldfinch feeders. Roland ---- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> To: "NatureNS" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Cc: "Ross & Linda Hall" <ross.hall@ns.sympatico.ca> Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 9:17 PM Subject: [NatureNS] acrobatic red squirrel at feeder; no chimney swifts? > 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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