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Mar. 22, 2008 - Continuing cold, windy, and snowy conditions -- very un-Spring-like, with snow falling most of the day. I saw the CLAY-COLOURED SPARROW in the morning, and I hope Clarence Stevens Sr. also saw it later in the day when he came. I also saw male and female CARDINALS, and the male was on the safflower-seed feeder again (which gets a lot of attention from the chickadees). Mar. 23, 2008 (EASTER) - At our home feeders a COCK PHEASANT TRIED TO COURT a hen pheasant very aggressively by fluffing up its plumage in the Sunlight and tipping himself to show his size and colours off as he tried to ³herd her² into closeness; but he was successful only in chasing her away! This act and its result were repeated in the afternoon. About a week ago I watched a COCK PHEASANT CROWING, also in our yard. Also at our feeders today were 2 PINE SISKINS with 2 GOLDFINCHES, and one of the latter showed a bit of BRIGHT YELLOW in its throat area. And a male FLICKER appeared at a suet feeder; this was our first flicker seen in quite a while. We saw about 30 CANADA GEESE along the Habitant River in Canning, and bout 300 more in the Wellington Dyke area along the lower Canard River. Also along the rivers were good numbers of BLACK DUCKS. Along Fred Thomas Road, northeast of the former Canard Poultry processing plant, a manure pile? had attracted good numbers of BALD EAGLES (at least 6 (3 ad., 3 imm.), ravens, crows, and gulls. 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 ----------------------
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