[NatureNS] And then there were finches...

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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:37:42 -0800 (PST)
From: Gayle MacLean <duartess2003@yahoo.ca>
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Like you, we haven't seen any Red-polls this winter nor any Purple Finches but have had American goldfinches pretty regularly all this winter here in this area of Dartmouth.

Also, several Song & White-throated Sparrows & a number of BC Chickadees have been common residents too. Have had both Downy & Hairy Woodpeckers, slews of Starlings, & crows, which seem to be pairing up now. 

Theses past 4 or 5 days, there are a number of Robins making an appearance.

The (very successfull, in my yard, anyway) Sharp-shinned Hawk/Merlin (truly now not sure which) patrols the neighborhood pretty much daily.

And a Red-tailed Hawk that's been seen pretty regularly now for a few weeks here in Dartmouth, spent alot of time yesterday overhead of the green-belt behind our house, of course, constantly being harrased by the crows.

And the over-wintering Orange-crowned Warbler continues to do well, enjoying morning and evening offerings of meal-worms and a fresh batch of homemade suet fruit plum pudding! Here's hoping I can continue to give weekly positive updates this winter, on this marvelous little bird. He certainly is a survivor!

Enjoying my backyard birds & squirrels,

Gayle MacLean
Dartmouth

--- On Mon, 2/22/10, Randy Lauff <randy.lauff@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Randy Lauff <randy.lauff@gmail.com>
> Subject: [NatureNS] And then there were finches...
> To: "NatureNS" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
> Received: Monday, February 22, 2010, 8:55 AM
> We were all (most?) a bit disheartened at
> the low turnout at feeders, at least early in the season. In
> the last two weeks I've gone from a fine flock of
> Goldfinches (perhaps 20, and they were my only finches) to
> about 110 Goldfinches, a half dozen Purples and two Siskins.
> I've even added a second Niger feeder to handle the
> load.
> 
> 
> I still have not even seen a Redpoll this
> winter, let alone had any at my feeders. Admittedly, I
> don't do too much birding in the winter, but even in low
> years, I normally get a few Redpolls. I have yet to see a
> Sharpie this winter at all as well, though one day last week
> I did find a clump of Blue Jay feathers under my
> feeders.
> 
> 
> Randy
> _________________________________
> RF Lauff
> Way in the boonies of
> Antigonish County, NS.
> 
> 
> 


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