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--Boundary_(ID_M9EfuAhhGSENj91o8/U/Gw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Paul et al., I'm intrigued by your warbler loving black-oil sunflower seeds. Surely that is very unusual -- has anyone else any experience with any sort of warbler eating sunflower seeds? Cheers from Jim in Wolfville Begin forwarded message: > From: Paul Murray <murraypaul@ns.sympatico.ca> > Date: May 29, 2008 9:19:43 PM ADT > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Merlins at point Pleasant Park > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > A couple of years ago my wife and I entertained a rare Townsend's > Warbler at our house in Quispamsis, NB (he loved black oil > sunflower seeds!). The bird came every 15-30 minutes to my feeders > for about two weeks. Half of the serious birders in NB enjoyed the > bird over tea in our living room. What we didn't know was that our > local Sharpie was also observing! He came unannounced for lunch > one day and picked our beautiful warbler out a crowd of 14 or 15 > mundane American Goldfinches and there ended our warbler and our > enjoyment. My wife almost saved the warbler but had a last > minute second thought before she threw her coffee mug through the > plate glass of our front window at Sharpie! Some would say she > made the wrong choice though. She watched the whole attack > sequence from 8 feet away and she was traumatized for three weeks > by the whole experience! We missed all those nice people coming > for tea every day too. Sharpie even had the nerve to come back an > hour later for chick-a-dee dessert! > > Paul --Boundary_(ID_M9EfuAhhGSENj91o8/U/Gw) Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> Paul et al., I'm intrigued by your warbler loving black-oil sunflower = seeds. =A0Surely that is very unusual -- has anyone else any experience = with any sort of warbler eating sunflower = seeds?<div><br></div><div>Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">Paul Murray <<a = href=3D"mailto:murraypaul@ns.sympatico.ca">murraypaul@ns.sympatico.ca</a>>= </font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 29, 2008 9:19:43 PM = ADT</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font>= </div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: [NatureNS] Merlins at point = Pleasant Park</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font>= </div><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: = separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; = font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; = letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: = auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><font = size=3D"2"></font>=A0</div><div><font size=3D"2">A couple of years ago = my wife and I entertained a rare Townsend's Warbler at=A0our house = in=A0Quispamsis, NB=A0(he loved black oil sunflower seeds!).=A0 The bird = came every 15-30 minutes to my feeders for about two weeks.=A0 Half of = the serious birders in NB=A0enjoyed the bird over tea in=A0our living = room.=A0 What we didn't know was that our local Sharpie was also = observing!=A0=A0 He came unannounced for lunch one day and picked our = beautiful warbler out a crowd of 14 or 15=A0mundane American Goldfinches = and there ended our warbler and our enjoyment.=A0=A0=A0=A0 My wife = almost saved the warbler but had a last minute second thought before she = threw her coffee mug through the plate glass=A0of our=A0front window at = Sharpie!=A0 Some would say she made the wrong choice though.=A0 She = watched the whole attack sequence from 8 feet away and she was = traumatized for three weeks by the whole experience!=A0 We missed all = those nice people coming for tea every day too.=A0 Sharpie even had the = nerve to come back an hour later for chick-a-dee = dessert!=A0</font></div><div><font size=3D"2"></font>=A0</div><div><font = size=3D"2">Paul</font></div></span></blockquote></div></div></body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_M9EfuAhhGSENj91o8/U/Gw)--
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