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Index of Subjects Margaret E.Millard wrote: > Cold out there today. Looks like an old fashioned winter. > We have chickadees, coming and going constantly, two groups of Blue > Jays, one is a group of five, the other is 11 we think. The five are > pretty constant and the rowdy boys come in stir and feed and leave in > a short burst of energy. There is a group of up to 20 Starlings, > mourning doves, up to 40 plus at times; A couple juncos, several > flocks one small and one quite large of redpolls that either just fly > by or stop ever so briefly then up and away. There are a couple sharp > shinned hawks hunting the area, and they are successful. An evening > Gross beak, an immature male I believe, with just a shade of yellow > beginning to show, is watching the feeders, it doesn't seem to have > the nerve to land and actually feed. I think it is a scout for a > larger group, I can hear but not see. There are 5 American sparrows, > one white throat and one song, which is very unusual for us as > normally we would be over run with white throats and song sparrows. > Yesterday when I was searching for an injured mourning dove I though I > saw a mockingbird. We usually have at least one this time of the year. > Steve said he thought it was there earlier in the week. It turned out > to be a shrike. It is regularly visiting the grapevine now and I am > trying to get a couple photos. The beak is slightly hooked at the tip > and the eye slash is there. Colour is right, I think. Main bird > viewing windows are fogged up today so it is hard to see out. It is > smaller than I think it should be, a bit heavier and more compact. I > wonder if it is a loggerhead. Whatever it is after the chickadees. > Marg in White Point > http://margmillard.ca > Just as Margaret is reporting, I have seen a major change in sparrow numbers over the past 2-3 winters; I used to regularly have 2-3 songs and 6-8 whitethroats, with no tree sparrows, but now have 1 song, 1 whitethroat and 4-5 tree sparrows. Eleanor Lindsay Seabright St Margarets Bay
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