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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_/2E32kIEiza+3pse43Lxxw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable We entertained a Yellow-rumped Warbler several years back which took BOS = seeds from our hanging feeder on the deck over a period of a week or = two. That was at least 10 years ago. The Pine Warbler which appeared one winter spent all its time at the = suet - never did see it take sunflower seeds. Bob McDonald Halifax ----- Original Message -----=20 From: James W. Wolford=20 To: NatureNS@chebucto.ns.ca=20 Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:50 PM Subject: [NatureNS] re warblers eating sunflower seeds? -- was Merlins = at point Pleasant Park 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!=20 Paul -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ----- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG.=20 Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.24.1/1470 - Release Date: = 5/28/2008 7:20 AM --Boundary_(ID_/2E32kIEiza+3pse43Lxxw) Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16640" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space" bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2>We entertained a Yellow-rumped Warbler several years back which took BOS seeds from our hanging feeder on the deck over a period of a week or two. That was at least 10 years ago.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>The Pine Warbler which appeared one winter spent all its time at the suet - never did see it take sunflower seeds.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Bob McDonald</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Halifax</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=jimwolford@eastlink.ca href="mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">James W. Wolford</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=NatureNS@chebucto.ns.ca href="mailto:NatureNS@chebucto.ns.ca">NatureNS@chebucto.ns.ca</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 28, 2008 9:50 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [NatureNS] re warblers eating sunflower seeds? -- was Merlins at point Pleasant Park</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>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? <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Cheers from Jim in Wolfville<BR> <DIV><BR> <DIV>Begin forwarded message:</DIV><BR class=Apple-interchange-newline> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Helvetica; COLOR: #000000" face=Helvetica color=#000000 size=3><B>From: </B></FONT><FONT style="FONT: 12px Helvetica" face=Helvetica size=3>Paul Murray <<A href="mailto:murraypaul@ns.sympatico.ca">murraypaul@ns.sympatico.ca</A>></FONT></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Helvetica; COLOR: #000000" face=Helvetica color=#000000 size=3><B>Date: </B></FONT><FONT style="FONT: 12px Helvetica" face=Helvetica size=3>May 29, 2008 9:19:43 PM ADT</FONT></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Helvetica; COLOR: #000000" face=Helvetica color=#000000 size=3><B>To: </B></FONT><FONT style="FONT: 12px Helvetica" face=Helvetica size=3><A href="mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Helvetica; COLOR: #000000" face=Helvetica color=#000000 size=3><B>Subject: </B></FONT><FONT style="FONT: 12px Helvetica" face=Helvetica size=3><B>Re: [NatureNS] Merlins at point Pleasant Park</B></FONT></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 12px Helvetica; COLOR: #000000" face=Helvetica color=#000000 size=3><B>Reply-To: </B></FONT><FONT style="FONT: 12px Helvetica" face=Helvetica size=3><A href="mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</A></FONT></DIV><SPAN class=Apple-style-span style="WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica; TEXT-TRANSFORM: none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adj