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Add about 6 CEDAR WAXWINGS to our yard this morning, attracted to our large
supply of hips of multiflora rose.
For the uninitiated re cedar vs. Bohemian waxwing identification, I look
first for relative size and patches of white on the wings -- Bohemians are
relatively large, especially noticeable in a mixed flock, and Bohemians show
white conspicuously on their wings, vs. just a narrow line of white just
behind the wing in cedar waxwings.
Also their calls are quite different in quality and loudness, but my
deafness usually prevents me from using such clues.
Oour 2 "good sparrows" were back today, too.
Cheers again from Jim in Wolfville
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From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 01:31:23 -0400
To: NatureNS <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Subject: evening grosbeak, 3 f. cardinals, weird pheasant behaviour?,
etc. -- Wolfville
Dec. 27, 2007 - We had three highlights from our Wolfville feeders today: a
single female or imm. EVENING GROSBEAK; a record number of 3 female N.
CARDINALS in sight at once; and a gorgeously coloured (very red-faced) cock
PHEASANT aggressively ran across the yard directly at a long female/imm.
pheasant, ran a tight circle around her/it, and then appeared to forage near
her/it. I donıt know how to account for the pheasant behaviour; surely the
slight change in times of sunrise/sunset since the solstice cannot cause any
hormonal shift yet??
Other birds in our yard included the CLAY-COLOURED and imm. WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROWS, male? red-breasted nuthatch, male flicker, at least 10 blue jays
(more than usual), 6 chickadees, 3 mourning doves, lots of juncos, 6+
white-throated sparrows, downy woodpecker, 2 rock pigeons, etc.?
Cheers :-) from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204
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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>
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