[NatureNS] Birds at White Point

Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2008 10:50:45 -0400
From: "Margaret E.Millard" <mmillard@eastlink.ca>
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Things change so fast, don't they? We had four orioles last going off and 
now we don't seem to have any. I had a day when we were awash in Starlings 
and now none. That is not a complaint!
We do still have Mourning Doves, many, all over the property. So far they 
don't appear to be ill. I am keeping fingers crossed. We have our allotment 
of  five rowdy Blue Jays, a few song sparrows, one white throat, a couple 
juncos that are here dawn to dusk,  and a few chickadees. Yesterday we had 
two American goldfinches, and about 20 more Juncos. A sharp-shinned hawk 
swung in low over the feeder yesterday  but I think it went away empty 
handed. There were two Grackles, and a Red-winged Blackbird, female., and 
what might be a Hermit Thrush. I can hear what I think is a brown headed Cow 
bird.
A couple Robins came to the ash tree and surveyed things closely and then 
left. The Red-bellied wood pecker (very talkative, natters all the time) 
came back to the chickadee feeder and was promptly chased away by a large 
female Hairy woodpecker. I don't have much Downy woodpecker activity 
strangely. I nearly always have them summer and winter. I heard an owl close 
by Saturday night  but don't know what one. I have a peeper sounding off now 
in the yard, in the pouring rain.
I think that's it for this weekend.
Marg Millard, White Point, Queens
http://margmillard.ca 


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