[NatureNS] Halifax Public Gardens - Warblers and Indigo Buntings

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Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 07:47:01 -0300
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From: "P.L. Chalmers" <plchalmers@ns.sympatico.ca>
To: NatureNS <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 17:47:19 -0300
Subject: [NatureNS] Halifax Public Gardens - Warblers and Indigo Buntings

>          After seeing a report about a Cerulean Warbler on the 
> NS-RBA, I visited the Halifax Public Gardens on Friday evening after 
> work, from 6:30 until 8:00 p.m.   I intended to walk through the 
> whole gardens, but went first to the area around the goose enclosure 
> where I had seen the Indigo Buntings on 8 May.  I found so much 
> activity there that I was reluctant to leave to search more 
> widely.  I found four Indigo Buntings  (two male, two female), at 
> least four Yellow-rumped Warblers (including the first female I have 
> seen this year), a Black-and-White Warbler, a Magnolia Warbler, a 
> Black-throated Green Warbler, and a Blackpoll Warbler.  The last bird 
> I saw was an empid flycatcher lower down near the water.  Most of 
> these birds were up high in the rapidly-leafing out trees, where they 
> were still touched by the late sunshine.
> 
>          After I had been there awhile I realized Liz Doull was 
> viewing the same area from the far side of the stream. So we compared 
> notes, and watched together for some time.  Liz had already visited 
> the place where Dennis had seen the Cerulean Warbler earlier, and 
> found nothing.  There are more conifers in the southwest corner of 
> the Gardens, and it would have been pretty dark there in the evening.
> 
>          The Indigo Buntings have been seen in the same place in the 
> Gardens for more than ten days now.  Since there was a single record 
> of breeding by this species in the recent Atlas, I was wondering if 
> these might stay to breed.  The two males were singing, but were not 
> behaving territorially and in fact were usually together in the same 
> tree. They were not interacting in any way with the females.
> 
> Directions:
>          The "goose enclosure" is in the northeast quadrant of the 
> Public Gardens, closest to the entrance gate at the corner of 
> Sackville and South Park streets (across from the CBC Radio 
> building).  Freshwater Brook flows out from Griffin's Pond, 
> resurfacing and flowing down towards the main entrance gate at Spring 
> Garden and South Park streets.  A portion of the banks on either side 
> of the stream is fenced off to form an enclosure, originally for 
> swans and now for a goose.
> 
>          Patricia L. Chalmers
>          Halifax
> 
> 
> At 02:15 PM 18/05/2012, David Currie wrote:
> >
> >Dennis Garratt just notified me and asked I post this. About 1:30 pm 
> >he had a female Cerulean Warbler, a Tennessee Warbler, magnolia, 
> >indigo buntings and some empid flycatchers at the Halifax Public 
> >Gardens. He offered his phone number should anyone want more 
> >specific directions.
> >
> >Dennis at:
> >423-5263
> >
> >Dave
> 
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