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This evening (27th April), in the fog and cold drizzle, a female Rusty Blackbird was calling from the cattail marsh at the Frog Pond in Fleming Park, Jollimore, HRM. If you park in the parking lot on the Purcell's Cove Road, and proceed around the lake in a clockwise direction, the first boardwalk you come to crosses this marsh. I heard the bird well before I reached the boardwalk, which was fortunate, as I was able to study it while I was still standing on the wooded path. It was perched on one of the dead maples in the marsh, and I could see its yellow eyes. As soon as I emerged from the trees onto the boardwalk it took flight, and I did not see or hear it again in the following half hour that I was in the park. I have never seen this species in the park before. Even Red-winged Blackbirds are uncommon; they appear briefly, and then apparently are pushed out by the Grackles. Patricia L. Chalmers Halifax
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