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Index of Subjects --001636c9270fc4afa3047b40fdd1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi, Eleanor Howard, who live on Grandview Drive in Wolfville, just described a bird visiting her feeder that sounds like it has to be an Oriole. If Jim or anyone else there can check it out (I don't think I'll be able to for a few days), it would be a good bird for Count Week. Richard On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 1:42 PM, P.L. Chalmers <plchalmers@ns.sympatico.ca>wrote: > Hi there, > > Yesterday during the Halifax Dartmouth Christmas Bird Count I found > a Baltimore Oriole moving with a flock of Black-capped Chickadees on Walton > Drive, in the Armdale area. I was interested to see that it was feeding on > the small hips of a Multiflora Rose bush. I had not observed orioles eating > them before. I always feel rather ambivalent about Multiflora Roses; an > invasive, alien species, that can really take over, but at the same time > it's a shrub which many species of birds rely on for both food and > protective cover. > > Earlier in the day I checked Susann Myers' feeders on Vienna Street. > There were four Baltimore Orioles there at the time. > > Cheers, > > Patricia L. Chalmers > Halifax > > > -- ################# Richard Stern, 317 Middle Dyke Rd. Port Williams, NS, Canada B0P 1T0 sternrichard@gmail.com ################### --001636c9270fc4afa3047b40fdd1 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div>Hi,</div> <div>=A0</div> <div>Eleanor Howard, who live on Grandview Drive in Wolfville, just describ= ed a bird visiting her feeder that sounds like it has to be an Oriole. If J= im or anyone else there can check it out (I don't think I'll be abl= e to for a few days), it would be a good bird for Count Week.</div> <div>=A0</div> <div>Richard<br><br></div> <div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 1:42 PM, P.L. Chalmers <= span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:plchalmers@ns.sympatico.ca">plchalme= rs@ns.sympatico.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0= px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hi there,<br><br>=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0= Yesterday during the Halifax Dartmouth Christmas Bird Count I found a Balti= more Oriole moving with a flock of Black-capped Chickadees on Walton Drive,= in the Armdale area. =A0 I was interested to see that it was feeding on th= e small hips of a Multiflora Rose bush. =A0I had not observed orioles eatin= g them before. =A0I always feel rather ambivalent about Multiflora Roses; a= n invasive, alien species, that can really take over, but at the same time = it's a shrub which many species of birds rely on for both food and prot= ective cover.<br> <br>=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Earlier in the day I checked Susann Myers' feeders o= n Vienna Street. =A0There were four Baltimore Orioles there at the time.<br= ><br>=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Cheers,<br><br>=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Patricia L. Chalmers<br>= =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Halifax<br><br>=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 <br> </blockquote></div><br><br clear=3D"all"><br>-- <br>#################<br>Ri= chard Stern, <br>317 Middle Dyke Rd.<br>Port Williams, NS, Canada<br>B0P 1T= 0<br><br><a href=3D"mailto:sternrichard@gmail.com">sternrichard@gmail.com</= a><br> ###################<br> --001636c9270fc4afa3047b40fdd1--
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