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Hi there, Today I was able to watch the birdlife in my backyard for the first time in several weeks. Black-capped Chickadees, Blue Jays, and American Goldfinches were busy at the feeders, and a Downy Woodpecker dropped in for a visit. My over-the-back-fence neighbour is preparing to landscape the overgrown backyard. I was sad to see a thicket of shrubs taken out, where the local Song Sparrows and visiting thrushes used to hide. While I was hanging out the laundry in the morning I heard one or two warblers, but never got a good look at any. Possibly Orange-crowned, from the call note. Later, I was chatting with my next-door neighbour, when we suddenly heard the harsh annoyed chatter of a Baltimore Oriole. We looked up in time to see three, if not four, fly out of the large Ash tree in her yard. She had seen one earlier in the week. I have a huge grape vine along one fence which has attracted them in other years. Last year my neighbour fed several Baltimore Orioles and an Orange-crowned Warbler all winter through; she is half-afraid she will be doing so again this year! Cheers, Patricia L. Chalmers Halifax
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