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Hello All,
Very interesting week for me. I had the pleasure of meeting Fulton Lavender and Mike King this past Sunday when they came to visit my backyard and have a look at the birds that frequent the wooded area that backs off of both Celtic and Glenwood Ave.'s. It was a glorious sunny day. There was a very large flock of Common Redpolls all around the feeders and I think they might have seen a Hoary Redpoll in the mix as well. Also seen were our "resident" cardinals, a male and female purple finch, white throated sparrows, song sparrows, American Goldfinches, Black-capped chickadees and House Sparrows. The white breasted nuthatches, the Downy woodpecker nor the flicker were not seen at that time however. I must say, I was very impressed with their binoculars and their amazing clarity! Certainly gave me the reason why I have such a hard time with identification of birds when I use my (poor "second cousin") brand of binoculars! :>)
Anyway, it was a great learning experience for myself and my neighbour, who is also interested in birds, as Fulton and Mike pointed out some of the key points to look for in identifying different species. Thanks so much!
The next day it was pouring rain and for the first time this winter, there was a large (so I am presuming, female) mature Sharp-shinned hawk way down back having just making a kill and "having breakfast". Ever since the Sharpie showed up, the number of birds at my feeders have been alot fewer and when they do come, they don't hang around very long, & just seem much more wary....oh well, the Sharpie has to eat too. Just hope it doesn't completely decimate all my beautiful birds!! (it can eat all the starlings though!!)
The best of the festive season to all & enjoy all your nature adventures!!
Gayle MacLean
Dartmouth
dowitcher <dowitcher@eastlink.ca> wrote:
at liverpool 2 white breasted nuthatches
1 baltimore oriole
pine grosebeaks
at west baccarro
4 razzorbill
1 dovekie
johnny'sfeeder 1 hoary redpoll
on the cape light area 1 shorth eared owl
lots of northern harrier
Murray R Newell
Cape Sable Island
Nova Scotia
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<DIV>Hello All,</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Very interesting week for me. I had the pleasure of meeting Fulton Lavender and Mike King this past Sunday when they came to visit my backyard and have a look at the birds that frequent the wooded area that backs off of both Celtic and Glenwood Ave.'s. It was a glorious sunny day. There was a very large flock of Common Redpolls all around the feeders and I think they might have seen a Hoary Redpoll in the mix as well. Also seen were our "resident" cardinals, a male and female purple finch, white throated sparrows, song sparrows, American Goldfinches, Black-capped chickadees and House Sparrows. The white breasted nuthatches, the Downy woodpecker nor the flicker were not seen at that time however. I must say, I was very impressed with their binoculars and their amazing clarity! Certainly gave me the reason why I have such a hard time with identification of birds when I use my (poor "second cousin") brand of binoculars!
:>)</DIV> <DIV>Anyway, it was a great learning experience for myself and my neighbour, who is also interested in birds, as Fulton and Mike pointed out some of the key points to look for in identifying different species. Thanks so much!</DIV> <DIV>The next day it was pouring rain and for the first time this winter, there was a large (so I am presuming, female) mature Sharp-shinned hawk way down back having just making a kill and "having breakfast". Ever since the Sharpie showed up, the number of birds at my feeders have been alot fewer and when they do come, they don't hang around very long, & just seem much more wary....oh well, the Sharpie has to eat too. Just hope it doesn't completely decimate all my beautiful birds!! (it can eat all the starlings though!!)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The best of the festive season to all & enjoy all your nature adventures!!</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Gayle MacLean</DIV>
<DIV>Dartmouth<BR><BR><B><I>dowitcher <dowitcher@eastlink.ca></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16587" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>at liverpool 2 white breasted nuthatches</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> 1 baltimore oriole</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> pine grosebeaks</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>at west baccarro</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> 4 razzorbill</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> 1 dovekie</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT
face=Arial size=2> johnny'sfeeder 1 hoary redpoll</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> on the cape light area 1 shorth eared owl</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> lots of northern harrier</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Murray R Newell<BR> Cape Sable Island<BR> Nova Scotia</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> 
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