[NatureNS] White Point birds

Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:46:52 -0300
From: Marg Millard <mmillard@eastlink.ca>
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Well it seems some of the birds are finding their way to us, finally. It has 
been for quiet so long we were feeling abandoned. At dawn and dusk we always 
have a few mourning doves but not the 50 plus (thankfully?) and a few 
sporadic visits from Blue Jays. Even the crows are gone and I noticed that 
this weekend the tree they like has been taken/blown down.
Our Song Sparrows are still here, I think they were born here and remained 
as I can move about under the vine and it doesn't seem to bother them much. 
Yesterday in a lull in a squall, we had a short visit of a Clay sparrow. 
Saturday I saw my Chipping sparrow. As last time they seemed to be in 
company of each other. I haven't seen them today. Last evening a number of 
chickadees arrived and they have been slipping in and out all day. I just 
had two treats. As I was eating my lunch, I had a couple kinglets right in 
the fir outside my living room window., And just now I was working up a pot 
of soup and a rose breasted Nuthatch was pounding away on a sunflower seed. 
I  had very brief visits in the spring but the little white breasted one 
that hit a car in our yard was the last I had seen since, April?. I do see 
the very occasional woodpecker, a brown one last week, which I am assuming 
is a juvenile red headed or red.  Both of which adults were seen here in the 
spring and summer.
 It was about the size of a downy, smaller than some and very edgy......I 
couldn't get a good look at it at all. It was looking for the seedcakes 
(visiting where it used to hang) but I haven't put them out as yet as it 
isn't really cold enough for all that fat. They were melting and crumbling 
and way too many starlings were just staying handy.
I saw a Great Blue  Heron in the Meadow Pond the other day.
Marg Millard, White Point, Queens

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