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--Boundary_(ID_cIsMfx1zVOnmwDQNaknRCQ) Content-type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable 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 Begin forwarded message: > 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 > --Boundary_(ID_cIsMfx1zVOnmwDQNaknRCQ) Content-type: text/html; charset=WINDOWS-1252 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> 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= 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">Lucas Berrigan <<a = href=3D"mailto:coppersmithbarbet@yahoo.ca">coppersmithbarbet@yahoo.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">March 31, 2009 10:47:02 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] fox sparrow song? in = Wolfville, gray squirrel at Greenwich again</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><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></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; "><o:smarttagtype = namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = name=3D"Street"><o:smarttagtype = namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = name=3D"State"><o:smarttagtype = namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = name=3D"address"><o:smarttagtype = namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = name=3D"place"><o:smarttagtype = namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = name=3D"City"><o:smarttagtype = namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = name=3D"country-region"><o:smarttagtype = namespaceuri=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" = name=3D"PersonName"><div class=3D"Sec