[NatureNS] re pair of red-winged blackbirds -- was fox sparrow song? in

Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:02:58 -0300
From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
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It's much too early for migrant female red-winged blackbirds, but of =20
course the one Lucas saw might well have overwintered.  Normally =20
migrant females are a couple of weeks or more later than the early =20
males, so that by the time of the annual pond-hopping King's County =20
field trip, females will be just starting to arrive, I'll guess.  =20
Cheers from Jim in Wolfville

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> From: Lucas Berrigan <coppersmithbarbet@yahoo.ca>
> Date: March 31, 2009 10:47:02 PM ADT
> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
> Subject: RE: [NatureNS] fox sparrow song? in Wolfville, gray =20
> squirrel at Greenwich again
> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
>
> There are at least three fox sparrows here and I hear them singing =20
> all the time. They have really beautiful songs.
>
> I had a pheasant at my feeders for the first time, actually I have =20
> never seen a pheasant anywhere near where I live. I wonder if it=92s =20=

> been released recently. I also had a pair (male and female) of red-=20
> winged blackbirds for a few seconds, my first for the year. The =20
> loons are also back, since the harbour is finally thawed out.
>
> Lucas Berrigan
>
> Eastern Shore,
> Nova Scotia
>
> My website
>
> From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-=20
> owner@chebucto.ns.ca] On Behalf Of James W. Wolford
> Sent: March 31, 2009 7:18 PM
> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
> Subject: [NatureNS] fox sparrow song? in Wolfville, gray squirrel =20
> at Greenwich again
>
> MAR. 31, 2009 - In late afternoon at home I heard a loud, melodic, =20
> unfamiliar SONG twice, and I'll bet it was the FOX SPARROW that, as =20=

> of yesterday, has been hanging around my yard and feeders for a =20
> week or more? When I played the fox sparrow song on the set of =20
> Stokes CDs, it had quite a bit of likeness of what I had heard. =20
> Hopefully I will hear it some more before it migrates north!? Then =20
> at 7:15 p.m. I saw the FOX SPARROW again at the feeders -- just a =20
> coincidence?
>
> And Pat Dix at Greenwich, across the highway from Harold Forsyth's =20
> house, saw a GRAY SQUIRREL again.
>
> Cheers from Jim in Wolfville
>
> Jim (James W.) Wolford
> 91 Wickwire Ave.
> Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada
> B4P 1W3
>
> phone 902-542-9204
> e-mail <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
>
> "In wildness is the preservation of the world" -- Henry David Thoreau
>


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It's much too early for migrant female red-winged blackbirds, but of =
course the one Lucas saw might well have overwintered. =A0Normally =
migrant females are a couple of weeks or more later than the early =
males, so that by the time of the annual pond-hopping King's County =
field trip, females will be just starting to arrive, I'll guess. =A0Cheers=
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