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Index of Subjects Such a sweet song, Patricia! The ones here beside Chocolate Lake started tentatively on Goundhog Day but went to full song on the 5th February. All of " Maids, maids, maids, Put on your tea-kettle-ettle-ettle-ettle ". ( I don't have a good ear for bird song, so love the birds that say something!) Cheers, Joan P.L. Chalmers wrote: > I have been meaning to write in and report that over-wintering > Song Sparrows have started singing in Halifax. I heard the first one > in the quadrangle at King's College on Thursday, 28 January. (That was > the day before the snow/ice storm and the drop in temperatures from > which we have now emerged.) He gave a full, rolicking, sustained song, > keeping it up for several minutes. No tentative, subdued "warming up" > singing there! Despite the cold, I heard the same bird sing on a > very sunny morning a week later (4 February) and I have heard it while > heading to work nearly every day since then. Last week I heard one > sing from my back yard for the first time, and he is now singing every > morning. Definitely lifts the spirits! > > Cheers, > > Patricia L. Chalmers > Halifax > > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > At 11:52 AM 06/02/2010, Andy Dean wrote: > Hey Peter, > Thanks for that timely morale-booster ....just as I was beginning to > despair. I REALLY hope you have it right. I will keep my ears open for > song sparrows singing and robins a-hopping. > Andy >
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