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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-147-871142166 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Greetings, If anyone is actually desperate to see House Finches give me a shout via private email. I have 8-10 that come to my feeders on a daily basis. Best wishes, Chris On Feb 8, 2008, at 6:07 PM, Suzanne Borkowski wrote: > > Hi; > > I finally got to see House Finches, thanks to Pat > Chalmers explicit instructions! > > My husband and I had just finished checking all the > feeders mentioned in her message, and were turning the > corner from Cambridge to Geldert to get a different > view of the last feeder, when I heard a flock of birds > fly overhead. There were 6 or 7 of them, sounding > very much like Purple Finches. In fact, part of their > song reminded me of Bobolinks. > > Thinking this was it - this was the sign - we chased > them from Geldert to Cambridge, to Waegwoltic to > Oxford and back to Waegwoltic. Finally one landed in > the top of a tree right in front of house #6526 > Waegwoltic Ave. We got great looks at the orangey-red > throat and upper breast of a male House Finch and > clearly heard the raspy note referred to by Pat in her > message. > > Thanks, so much, Pat! > > Cheers; > Suzanne > > > > > --- "P.L. Chalmers" <plchalmers@ns.sympatico.ca> > wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> Several people have asked for more details about >> the House Finches >> which I mentioned in a previous post. They are >> uncommon in the >> province, but there are several pockets of them in >> SW Nova and here >> in metro Halifax. In Halifax they are mostly in the >> south end (near >> the universities), though spreading. Their song is >> somewhat like a >> Purple Finch but has an occasional raspy, burry note >> which is >> distinctly unlike any sound a Purple Finch makes. I >> regularly see >> and hear them near Conrose Field. (The nearest big >> intersection >> would be Oxford Street and Jubilee Road.) The birds >> are usually to >> be found in the backyards of the houses in the >> square formed by >> Waegwoltic Avenue, Cambridge Street, Geldert Street, >> and Conrose >> Avenue. There are birdfeeders at 6445 Waegwoltic >> which are visible >> from the street, and also at 6541 Waegwoltic. There >> is another at >> 1600 Cambridge, also visible from the street. The >> brick house next >> door to it has feeders in the backyard, visible from >> around the >> corner on Geldert. The same brick house has >> extensive ivy covering >> its walls, and I believe this is where the House >> Finches have nested >> in the last few years. >> >> There are also often House Finches around the >> Library at the >> University of King's College, and the Chemistry >> building at >> Dalhousie. I haven't noted them in these locations >> recently, however. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Patricia L. Chalmers >> Halifax >> >> >> > > > > Get a sneak peak at messages with a handy reading pane with > All new Yahoo! Mail: http://ca.promos.yahoo.com/newmail/overview2/ Christopher Majka - Atlantic Canada Coleoptera http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/NHR/atlantic_coleoptera.html c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca --Apple-Mail-147-871142166 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> Greetings,<div><br class=3D"webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>If = anyone is actually desperate to see House Finches give me a shout via = private email. 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