[NatureNS] 800+ waxwings, redpolls, siskins, other feeder birds on storm days

Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 18:21:16 -0400
From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
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March 1, 2008 - This is a PRE-STORM DAY (a Œnoreaster¹ coming this afternoon
and overnight), and this morning¹s feeder-birds were abundant and
energetic/frenetic about foraging, particularly a short-lived and small
³invasion² of COMMON REDP0LLS, about 20+ of which literally covered our
hanging Niger-seed feeder and fed on the ground, too.

Later in the day I noticed a few PINE SISKINS and a couple of AM.
GOLDFINCHES, too.  Also seen were about 20 juncos, 10 white-throated
sparrows, the CLAY-COLOURED SPARROW, the imm. WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW, a
RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH, a mourning dove, a red squirrel, a couple of
pheasants and crows and rock pigeons.

We haven¹t seen anything of our 1-2 N. FLICKERS for at least a couple of
weeks, and visits from DOWNY and HAIRY WOODPECKERS are only occasional.

Mar. 2, 2008 - Blizzard to snow flurries most of today with strong wind from
the west and north.  This morning we saw a huge flock of 800+ WAXWINGS,
presumably BOHEMIANS, in our neighborhood of Wolfville.

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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