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To: James and all
From: John Sollows
Date: March 30/11
March may be early for flycatchers, but not much is impossible in nature.
Also, our winters are getting increasingly shorter and milder. Thirty years
ago, down here in Yarmouth, boreal chickadees, evening grosbeaks and Canada
jays were commonplace, especially in the winter. We see them very rarely
now. 'Way back then, though, we had never seen a cardinal not a turkey
vulture at any time of year, and now, they are year-round residents, and
pretty common ones.
So it's legitimate to question the presence of a flycatcher in March, but
not to say that it's impossible.
By the way, this morning I heard an unusual bird song near our place on
Wyman Road. As I approached, the singer flew. Turned out to be a fox
sparrow. I have never heard one signing before. We do have a pair, here.
Don't they tend to breed further north?
From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca]
On Behalf Of James Hirtle
Sent: March-30-11 9:37 PM
To: Naturens Naturens
Subject: [NatureNS] Eastern Kingbird, other birds, leps and insects.
In light of the ridicule by some about the impossibility of an Eastern
kingbird being seen here during this time of the year. I am convinced that
the reportees in Chester actually saw this bird. I visiited the property
today and spoke to them in more detail about their sighting. The lady first
heard a call from the top of a tree that she did not recognize. Both the
man and his wife describe what can only be an eastern kingbird and when I
played the call of the eastern kingbird it matched what she heard. The
habitat in which the bird was sighted is dead on for where we would expect
it to be. There is a lake in behind and a man made brook on one side of the
property with a nicely running brook and pool on the other side of the
house. The house is down in a dip back off of the road with an orchard like
yard. There is a huge tree with thickly twining woody vines coming down
off it, a couple of pear trees, a butterfly bush and loads of shrubs and
overall mostly trees like you would see in an orchard. Most of the trees in
the area are deciduous and there is an actual apple orchard nearby. An
eastern kingbird paradise. The sun shining down into the yard at Chester
today brought out a hornet and I photographed a mourning cloak for the
Butterfly atlas. Elsewhere I also had house flies today and another
possibly butterfly. The other lep was at Oakland and was orange in color
and small. It might have been either a butterfy or the moth that I had
early last year. I'm not sure as it did not settle long enough for me to
get a good look at it. It is most likely that it was the same early orange
moth that I had last year.
The American Kestrel was at Lilydale again today. At Chester we had a
sharp-shinned hawk.
I had a report of a mourning dove collecting nesting material. The eagle is
sitting tight on the nest in Dayspring by the NS Light and Power Plant close
to Bridgewater.
At First South there were still 92 great scaup and 8 lesser scaup today.
There were about 45 red-breasted mergansers there. Lots of bufflehead were
all over.
James R. Hirtle
Bayport
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