[NatureNS] Black-backed Woodpeckers,

From: Angela Joudrey* <aljoudrey@eastlink.ca>
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:11:01 -0300
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those small white moths flying about=2E The first half of the loop is al=
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pairs=2E=A0 There were probably more around but it=27s impossible to =

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Black-backed Woodpeckers a =3Cb=3ENorthern Goshawk=3C/b=3E passed =

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Wren=3C/b=3E(30++)=2E=A0 They were alongside the first half of the loop =
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50-100 metre intervals singing their hearts out=2C as only this wren can=
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finally has some decent photos of this hard to photograph bird=2C since =
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seldom pop out of their tangle of branches and shrubs=2E=A0 Alongside th=
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Winter Wren and often singing together was the =3Cb=3EBrown =

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