[NatureNS] Re: Red-breasted Nuthatches, etc.

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Certainly abundant in my yard in Hubbards with several breeding pairs. Many 
 of them still here.
Peter Stow
 
 
In a message dated 25/09/2010 8:25:56 A.M. Atlantic Daylight Time,  
aythya@nb.sympatico.ca writes:

Last  winter was a real good one for RBNU in New Brunswick, with 10s of 
thousands  staying behind in the deep woods to feed on the abundant conifer 
seed  crop.  This year may be different, as that crop has now been  exhausted.

Also, Brian Dalzell is now the summer season editor for  American Birds, 
and would appreciate any input from Nova Scotia birders you  may be privy to.

====================================

----  "Laviolette wrote: 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> Last month there  were a few emails exchanged concerning Red-breasted 
Nuthatches and how  abundant they were this year. While I was on Brier Island 
at the end of August  and the beginning of September there were very large 
numbers of Red-breasted  Nuthatches migrating south.  In fact this was the 
largest migration I've  witnessed on the island since 2005.
> 
> The large movement  certainly fits with the observations reported on 
NatureNS and with the winter  finch and irruptive species predictions for Canada 
from Ron Pittaway of the  Ontario Field Ornithologists. For Red-breasted 
Nuthatches his report reads in  part:
> 
> 
> "RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH: This nuthatch is a  conifer seed specialist when 
it winters in the north, thus its movements are  triggered by the same crops 
as the boreal winter finches. The southward  movement, which began in the 
summer, signaled the generally poor cone crops on  spruces, balsam fir and 
white pine in the mixed coniferous/deciduous forest  region across Ontario and 
in Atlantic Canada, New York and New England States  ... "
> 
> It seems that when large numbers of Red-breasted  Nuthatches are reported 
from Nova Scotia it's a result of generally poor cone  crops in the 
Maritimes. I'd be interested in hearing any confirming or  contrary reports of the 
cone crop status throughout the province.
>  
> For those of you who feed birds, the predictions are calling for  Common 
Redpolls to irrupt south this year so stock up on your nyger and black  oil 
sunflower seeds. They're also big feeders on White Birch seeds so expect  
them to show up in areas where this tree is common.
> 
> All the  best,
> 
> Lance
> 
> ====================
>  Lance Laviolette
> Glen Robertson, Ont.
>  ====================
>  



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