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April 5, 2008 - Today at home we had a very esthetic close observation of 35 BOHEMIAN WAXWINGS. One side of our property has a hedge of juniper, and we didn't know until today that the juniper was loaded with "berries" (really unusual cones, of course). As I was just settling down by a window to listen to today's Quirks and Quarks on CBC Radio, I noticed the waxwings next to our house and pigging out on the "berries". So Pat and I had very close views of their lovely colours and fur-like plumage. At our feeders we had a new visitor who was treated by our regulars as an intruder and chased all over the place: a young adult (yearling?) WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW. I didn't notice our regular immature white-crowned sparrow today, but yesterday it still had not changed its head pattern at all yet. Also present were our CLAY-COLOURED SPARROW, 4 song sparrows, 4+ white-throated sparrows, 10+ juncos, a female CARDINAL, 4+ blue jays, 2 rock pigeons, 2 mourning doves, 1 male downy woodpecker, 2 hen pheasants, 2 crows, 3 grackles, 2 starlings. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204 In wildness is the preservation of the world. -- Thoreau
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