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close, where both are regular breeders. While I can't prove a First grackles of the season here in Hantsport yesterday as well. They were singing in the treetops when I got home from work in the afternoon. Marian Fulton Alder Avenue Hantsport ---- Sherman Williams <shermwms@eastlink.ca> wrote: > 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, > > > > 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. > > > > Richard > > > > 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. > > > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > > > > Begin forwarded message: > > > >> 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 > >> > >> Trying to send this again today, as it didn't go through on Saturday! > >> > >> -------- 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:; > >> > >> Had a male Brown-headed Cowbird today outside my kitchen window checking > >> out the feeders. Heard 2, but only saw 1 N. Cardinal early this a.m. in > >> full song. Tonight very late when I went to bring in the Oriole food, I > >> scared a Cedar Waxwing up from the ground. I think it must have been > >> eating the berries on the Cotoneaster. > >> > >> Lois Codling > >> L. Sackville > > > > > > > > > > -- > > ################# > > Richard Stern, > > Port Williams, NS, Canada > > sternrichard@gmail.com > > ################### >
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