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Feb. 26, 2008 - Our two ³good sparrows², i.e., the CLAY-COLOURED SPARROW and the immature WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW, are still frequenting our Wolfville feeders. Feb. 27, 2008 - While I was tending the feeders, a lovely little RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH let me approach to within a metre of it (probably him, since it was brightly salmon underneath and probably the same bird that has been here for most of the winter, and addicted to our hanging peanut feeder. Also seen at the feeders were 3 CARDINALS (1m/2f), the CLAY-COLOURED SPARROW, 6+ pheasants, etc. Feb. 28, 2008 - I blundered into a great observation this afternoon at 2:20 p.m., at Home Hardware in Wolfville. I had just gotten out of my car, when I noticed a PEREGRINE FALCON slowly gliding by at low altitude and slowly from south to north. I saw it encounter a NORTHERN HARRIER, an adult female, and they briefly interacted in the air, then separated and flew off in separate directions but in a way that I got another look at each of them. Later in the afternoon I visited 23 Pleasant St. in Kentville (Richard Stern's old house), where Dave ? told me that the CAROLINA WREN was last seen on Feb. 15. In that yard near the feeders I saw lots of juncos, a couple of chickadees, a downy woodpecker, a white-throated sparrow, and a redpoll or siskin. 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> ---------------------- ³...... the Earth .....belongs as much to those who come after us as to us; and we have no right, by anything that we do, or neglect to do, to involve them in unnecessary penalties, or to deprive them of benefits which are theirs by right.² - John Ruskin ---------------------- ³In wildness is the preservation of the world.² -- Henry David Thoreau ----------------------
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