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--=====================_170567312==.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed At 10:46 PM 30/03/2011, John Sollows wrote: >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? The Fox Sparrow's Eastern breeding range is indeed mostly further north -- the species is widespread and abundant across the island of Newfoundland, and through southern Labrador, and across central Quebec (and the Gaspe Peninsula) and northern Ontario. They like cold forest edges, and don't occur north of the tree line. But smaller populations occur in the Maritimes. The current atlas shows Fox Sparrows breeding in numerous locations in NW New Brunswick (at higher elevations). In Nova Scotia, as Bev Crowell mentioned, they do breed on some islands off the south shore, including Bon Portage Island and Seal Island. There is also a thin breeding range along the outer coasts and islands from Lunenburg Bay up to Canso. Near HRM, for example, they breed in Prospect, Lower Prospect, Crystal Crescent Prov. Park, Taylor Head PP, Flying Point off Martinique Beach, and other locales. In Cape Breton they also breed on the coastal margins of SE Cape Breton, but the province's Fox Sparrow stronghold is the Cape Breton Highlands, where they are routine. In most of Nova Scotia Fox Sparrows appear as migrants, mostly in spring. And male Foxies often sing at this time, presumably being full of the energies of spring. I recently had two Fox Sparrows singing for eight days, but they moved on, likely to Newfoundland (where local birders have noticed a big arrival in the past few days). The local Fox Sparrows at nearby Prospect don't usually appear until the second week of April. Cheers, Blake ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blake Maybank maybank@ns.sympatico.ca http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakemaybank/ 902-852-2077 Editor, "Nova Scotia Birds" http://nsbs.chebucto.org Organiser, Maritimes Nature Travel Club http://tinyurl.com/naturetravel author, "Birding Sites of Nova Scotia" http://tinyurl.com/birdingns Downloadable Nova Scotia Maps for inside front and back covers: http://tinyurl.com/mr627d White's Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada --=====================_170567312==.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html> <body> At 10:46 PM 30/03/2011, John Sollows wrote:<br> <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">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?</blockquote><br> The Fox Sparrow's Eastern breeding range is indeed mostly further north -- the species is widespread and abundant across the island of Newfoundland, and through southern Labrador, and across central Quebec (and the Gaspe Peninsula) and northern Ontario. They like cold forest edges, and don't occur north of the tree line. But smaller populations occur in the Maritimes. The current atlas shows Fox Sparrows breeding in numerous locations in NW New Brunswick (at higher elevations).<br><br> In Nova Scotia, as Bev Crowell mentioned, they do breed on some islands off the south shore, including Bon Portage Island and Seal Island. There is also a thin breeding range along the outer coasts and islands from Lunenburg Bay up to Canso. Near HRM, for example, they breed in Prospect, Lower Prospect, Crystal Crescent Prov. Park, Taylor Head PP, Flying Point off Martinique Beach, and other locales. <br><br> In Cape Breton they also breed on the coastal margins of SE Cape Breton, but the province's Fox Sparrow stronghold is the Cape Breton Highlands, where they are routine.<br><br> In most of Nova Scotia Fox Sparrows appear as migrants, mostly in spring. And male Foxies often sing at this time, presumably being full of the energies of spring. I recently had two Fox Sparrows singing for eight days, but they moved on, likely to Newfoundland (where local birders have noticed a big arrival in the past few days). The local Fox Sparrows at nearby Prospect don't usually appear until the second week of April.<br><br> Cheers,<br><br> Blake<br><br> <x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br> Blake Maybank<br> maybank@ns.sympatico.ca<br> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakemaybank/" eudora="autourl"> http://www.flickr.com/photos/blakemaybank/<br> </a>902-852-2077<br><br> Editor, "Nova Scotia Birds"<br> <a href="http://nsbs.chebucto.org/" eudora="autourl"> http://nsbs.chebucto.org<br><br> </a>Organiser, Maritimes Nature Travel Club<br> <font color="#0000FF"><u> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/naturetravel" eudora="autourl"> http://tinyurl.com/naturetravel</a></u></font> <br><br> author, "Birding Sites of Nova Scotia"<br> <font color="#0000FF"><u> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/birdingns" eudora="autourl"> http://tinyurl.com/birdingns<br> </a></u></font>Downloadable Nova Scotia Maps for inside front and back covers:<br> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/mr627d" eudora="autourl"> http://tinyurl.com/mr627d</a> <br><br> White's Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada </body> </html> --=====================_170567312==.ALT--
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