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ca" face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3"><a href=3D"mailto:naturens@cheb --Apple-Mail-2--783381303 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Today (March 15) observed male redwing blackbird and a few grackles in = Avonport -first of the season, looking like spring arrivals. Also at = Haliburton Farm, Avonport a couple of days ago, a flock of hundreds of = robins gathered around the apple pulp piles (the left overs from juice = making). Almost as many robins present as starlings. Several robins = in my yard today (with the brightly coloured orange breast). Also, = several song sparrows singing in spite of the snow. Sherman On Mar 13, 2012, at 7:03 PM, Richard Stern wrote: > Hi, >=20 > After having no Redwings or Grackles all winter, we have had several = of both in our backyard and around the feeders. They are all fresh = looking adult males, with plenty of gloss, and several have been = singing. There is a marsh, and some trees, very close, where both are = regular breeders. While I can't prove anything with banding records or = otherwise, I have little doubt that they are returning migrants. Over = the last month or so there have been huge numbers of Robins all over the = Province (or at least the western half of it), mostly also fresh and = smart-looking birds, that I suppose could have been hiding in the woods = or orchards before that, but it seems unlikely. My impression is that = numbers are now dropping off again, so I wonder where they have gone - = farther south? Farther north? Hiding in the woods? Interesting to = speculate. >=20 > Richard >=20 > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:31 PM, James W. Wolford = <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> wrote: > I cannot resist a cautionary note here regarding birds that regularly = overwinter in N.S. -- think robins, grackles, red-winged blackbirds, = cedar waxwings, cowbirds (mentioned below), yellow-rumped warblers, = Baltimore orioles, etc. -- how can we tell which of the growing numbers = reported at feeders might be genuine new arrivals in N.S. from further = south?? Just remember to be skeptical, and let's all look in the = nesting habitats the new arrivers will start to inhabit, rather than = just our back-yard feeders. >=20 > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. >=20 > Begin forwarded message: >=20 >> From: Lois Codling <loiscodling@hfx.eastlink.ca> >> Date: March 12, 2012 9:22:06 PM ADT >> To: Nature NS <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> >> Subject: [NatureNS] Signs of Spring >> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca >>=20 >> Trying to send this again today, as it didn't go through on Saturday! >>=20 >> -------- Original Message -------- >> Subject: Signs of Spring >> Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2012 21:55:57 -0400 >> From: Lois Codling <loiscodling@hfx.eastlink.ca> >> To: undisclosed-recipients:; >>=20 >> Had a male Brown-headed Cowbird today outside my kitchen window = checking=20 >> out the feeders. Heard 2, but only saw 1 N. Cardinal early this a.m. = in=20 >> full song. Tonight very late when I went to bring in the Oriole = food, I=20 >> scared a Cedar Waxwing up from the ground. I think it must have been=20= >> eating the berries on the Cotoneaster. >>=20 >> Lois Codling >> L. Sackville >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > --=20 > ################# > Richard Stern,=20 > Port Williams, NS, Canada > sternrichard@gmail.com > ################### --Apple-Mail-2--783381303 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <html><head></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Today = (March 15) observed male redwing blackbird and a few grackles in = Avonport -first of the season, looking like spring arrivals. Also = at Haliburton Farm, Avonport a couple of days ago, a flock of hundreds = of robins gathered around the apple pulp piles (the left overs from = juice making). Almost as many robins present as starlings. = Several robins in my yard today (with the brightly coloured orange = breast). Also, several song sparrows singing in spite of the = snow.<div><br><div> <span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; = font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; = line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: = 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: = rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: = normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: = normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; = text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div = style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; = letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: = -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: = normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div = style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; = "><div><div>Sherman</div></div></div></span><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"> </div> <br><div><div>On Mar 13, 2012, at 7:03 PM, Richard Stern wrote:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote = type=3D"cite">Hi,<br><br>After having no Redwings or Grackles all = winter, we have had several of both in our backyard and around the = feeders. They are all fresh looking adult males, with plenty of gloss, = and several have been singing. There is a marsh, and some trees, very = close, where both are regular breeders. While I can't prove a