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--Apple-Mail-14-121595771 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Begin forwarded message: > From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Date: December 24, 2012 5:35:43 PM AST > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> > Subject: [ValleyNature] Jim's feeders in Wolfville > > DEC. 24, 2012 - Our one-legged starling is still present and > apparently getting along OK, feeding on the ground as well as on > suet cake and bird pie (quite awkward at the latter). I also saw a > female or immature purple finch, with a few goldfinches. Also I > saw 2 robins, one of them quite pale in both upper and lower parts, > in our multiflora rose-hips. > > Other feeder visitors include up to 10 mourning doves, 4+ blue > jays, 6 bl.-c. chickadees, 2+ starlings, 3 cardinals (1m,2f), 5+ > juncos, 5 white-throated sparrows, 1 or 2? song sparrows, 2 > goldfinches, 1 red squirrel. > > I still have not definitely seen a Norway rat for quite a while, > but I suspect at least one is still present and spending most of > its time in the burrow system that is also used by our sleeping? > chipmunk and the active red squirrel -- how communal!? Another > large entrance/exit for this burrow system very recently appeared, > just a few feet from where I had recently moved the bottom of an > old pheasant feeder for cracked corn and white millet seeds. > > Still a very shallow skiff of snow on the ground, and temperatures > are quite cold, cold enough to show us a somewhat white Christmas > tomorrow? > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, and HAPPY HOLIDAY & NEW YEAR! > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/ > nature_blomidonnaturalists.ca --Apple-Mail-14-121595771 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> <br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">"James W. Wolford" <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>></fon= t></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">December 24, 2012 5:35:43 PM = AST</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Nature BNS <<a = href=3D"mailto:nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a>></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[ValleyNature] Jim's feeders in = Wolfville</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; = "><br></div> <div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Times New Roman" = size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Times New Roman"><b>DEC. 24, 2012</b> - = Our <b>one-legged starling</b> is still present and apparently getting = along OK, feeding on the ground as well as on suet cake and bird pie = (quite awkward at the latter). I also saw a female or immature = <b>purple finch</b>, with a few goldfinches. Also I saw 2 = <b>robins</b>, one of them quite pale in both upper and lower parts, in = our multiflora rose-hips.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 13px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px; = "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Times New Roman" = size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Times New Roman">Other feeder visitors = include up to 10 mourning doves, 4+ blue jays, 6 bl.-c. chickadees, 2+ = starlings, 3 cardinals (1m,2f), 5+ juncos, 5 white-throated sparrows, 1 = or 2? song sparrows, 2 goldfinches, 1 red squirrel. = </font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 13px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"4" = style=3D"font: 13.0px Times New Roman">I still have not definitely seen = a <b>Norway rat</b> for quite a while, but I suspect at least one is = still present and spending most of its time in the <b>burrow system = </b>that is also used by our sleeping? <b>chipmunk</b> and the active = <b>red squirrel</b> -- how communal!? Another large<b> = entrance/exit</b> for this burrow system very recently appeared, just a = few feet from where I had recently moved the bottom of an old pheasant = feeder for cracked corn and white millet seeds.</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal 'Times New = Roman'; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Times New = Roman">Still a very shallow skiff of snow on the ground, and = temperatures are quite cold, cold enough to show us a somewhat <b>white = Christmas tomorrow?</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Times New = Roman"><b><br></b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Times New = Roman"><b>Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, and HAPPY HOLIDAY & NEW = YEAR!</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = ">_______________________________________________</div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">Nature mailing list</div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a = href=3D"mailto:Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">Nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a = href=3D"http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnatu= ralists.ca">http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidon= naturalists.ca</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-14-121595771--
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