[NatureNS] Goldfinches feeding on Grass Heads

Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 12:50:27 -0300
From: Brian Dalzell <aythya@nb.sympatico.ca>
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A couple weeks ago I mentioned finding a big flock (~150) of AMERICAN GOLDFINCH in a field at Waldegrave (near Tatamagouche) eagerly feeding on the ripening seed heads of some kind of unknown grass.  Thanks to Sean Blaney, I now have an ID.

It is Anthoxanthum odoratum, Sweet Vernal Grass, a common exotic  species that has the same scent as the native Sweet Grass (Hierochloe  odorata, now known in the Flora of North America as Anthoxanthum nitens and A. hirta). 

Brian Dalzell,
Moncton, NB. 

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