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Index of Subjects The past few days has a few soggy birds coming to the grapevine feeders. A Blue-gray Gnatcatcher is making trips in staying quite awhile each time then disappearing once again. I have seen it in the big maple on the town side of the property then it works its way along the trees and border garden to the grapevine. This is day 5. I am unable to say it is a solitary bird. At times there are a number of small birds about. There seem to be Juncos, American Goldfinches, the gnatcatcher, a couple kinglets, (they showed up Friday and all were in the grapevine at the same time) a few warblers, an oven bird and I don't know what else. they were flitting all over the place. I did try to get some photos and will check them to see did I get any images that might be usable. It was all very exciting! Like Christmas when I was a little kid! There were three Grackles that seemed to be travelling together. One was damaged and being fed by another. Thursday we went to walk the beaches at Port Joli. The changes there in the past year are astounding! We tried to get down to Goose Haven Beach but the ocean has broken into the big pond caused by the Jollimore's causeway and limited how far one can walk toward the creek by forming a drain near the causeway. If I had boots I might have been able to get further. From Durham Lane, we walked toward Goose Haven and the ocean has really torn the shoreline up. There was sign of goose but I think the hunters had put the birds up. We were just away from the migratory bird sign, walked to the creek and even with the tide being way out we didn't ford the stream. Tide low as it was we would have had to wade through a fair bit of water to get to the "bgu rocks". While we were there we heard lots of Yellow rumped warblers and crows. Gulls were way off at the waterline. We were just coming back to the truck when we heard geese and two strings eventually landed, the first about 70 - 80 and the second a few less. They settled just into the sanctuary just along the waters edge. I was planning to go over for the count Saturday but the rain was just a bit much. We only saw a solitary set of deer tracks leading along the creek at Goose haven. How sad. From Port Joli we went along to see what was happening at Carters, pre storm. It was very, very quiet. Cranberry Brook was cutting way back into the merrim grass along the far shore but curved back to drain the Carters side of the "Island". We walked over to the back beach which was looking very stagnant and scummy, loaded with eel grass and startled a large heron which flew back into the bushy part of the stream. Lots of yellow rumped warblers in the trees as well as White Throat sparrows along that old rain fence in front of the cottage with the paintings. Also lots of squirrels and crows. At Summerville behind Alice Verge's (the old Garage property) there was a Heron in there and also one in at the Meadow Pond just as you head outside of Liverpool. We came home to see the gnat catcher and kinglets! and a neighbouring cat sitting high up on the support post pretending to be an owl. A pot of water persuaded the cat to move on but it is a friendly confident that although I may act like a maniac in its presence, I am probably harmless. There are now 5 cats using our yard as latrine and play station. I was considering live trapping these animals but heard a coyote last night so maybe they will once again be cleaned out as most of the foxes are for now. I am a cat lover. My cats stay inside. Oh we have a mink appearing in our yard. Also a chipmunk or two. A bit late for them no? I expect their store are real wet now. We've had more than 61/2 inches of rain, starting Thursday night to early this am. Yesterday, mid afternoon, we watched 3 mallards slurping worms like pasta at the Marina park while we enjoyed our tea, watching the mill shake chips from a truck Marg Millard, White Point, Queens http://MargMillard.ca
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