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Hello, as I was assembling the birdhouse after cleaning and bleaching yesterday, my chipmunk ran over my foot! It is quietly moving about the barn but so far hasn't made it to the feeder at the house. We know it is familiar with us because it came close as soon as Steve opened the galvanised trash can where the sunflower seed is stored. There is a solitary grackle, a whole host of woodpeckers (hairy and Downy) and many juncos, chickadees, sparrows various (one different with pale beak and very orange legs that won't hold still while I look at it) and mourning doves although we lost another (3 in a couple days) to a predator (didn't see) this morning. Suddenly the yard wash filled with feathers and down. Starlings hit and leave (thankfully) and the red-winged blackbird is back. I think I saw a brown headed cowbird as well just as the sharp shinned hawk swept through. The regular Robins returned in enmass yesterday, checked out their previous nesting sights, lots of squawking and chattering, settled down to feed until just about dark, then they all left this morning. They will move off for a bit then settle back and produce. We have a pair of red bellied nuthatches. Don't know what happened to the white bellied one. I checked with the man up the street from me and he hasn't seen it at his feeder either. Peepers are being heard in town at the Fort Point bog but I haven't heard one here yet. Question: When I cleaned one of the houses, there was a nest or an attempt at one that I haven't seen before. I wonder if I may have interrupted someone's construction. There was a lot of chipping away to make a depression in the floor and a pile of the short (about 3") pieces from the grapevine. One wall was all chipped away at as well. It wasn't muddied or woven just heaped with the chips scattered through. Oh and a nut as in a nut and bolt....1/4" actually. Any suggestions? The second was a tree swallow nest and the third was completely filled with long grass and then lined with oregano bits and fine feathers and some strings....squirrel probably. Marg in White Point, Queens http://margmillard.ca
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