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I am expecting to hear the song of the Eastern Wood Pewee once the weather improves. They usually arrive here about May 20-22. What I have missed is the resident Starling mimicking the Pewee song which it has done for a number of years. Perhaps he has passed on to bird heaven or wherever Starlings go! What has interested me is that the Starling stops singing the song once the Pewee starts. How does it know when to start?? I had stopped feeding birds about a week ago but yesterday when I hadn't seen a Rose-breasted Grosbeak here, I put out some sunflower seeds. Within 15 mins. a male showed up and today we have 3 males & 2 females and they seem to be increasing by the hour!! Today in between heavy rain, I checked out Palmeter Woods (West Kentville) between 10:30-11:30. Despite the late hour there were: - 11-12 Ovenbirds (usually about 20 singing males a little later). - 5-6 Black-throated Green Warblers - a few Parula Warblers (one was singing something very close to a Black-throated Green but with the usual Parula ending....I believe this is their "3rd" song but it is not on the Stokes CD) - Least Flycatcher ...only one was singing and several were calling. There are 15-20 along this loop trail and I noticed earlier in the week they had spaced themselves out more after their arrival when they were basically in two groups. Their territories must be quite small but I recall from another woodlot they can make do with such small areas. Angus -
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