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--Apple-Mail-21-719891017 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > Subject: [ValleyNature] starlings vs. pileated w. & flickers in > Wolfville > > THANKS, PAUL! and keep monitoring while you can! > > Some of you will recall Paul Steele's images from along Kent Ave. > in Wolfville, where his tall poplars in his back yard held a > successful nesting of pileated woodpeckers, who produced two > fledged young, a male and a female. Well, this year the pileateds > tried again, with flickers attending another cavity just 2 metres > or less above the PIWOs. But starlings competed with them and > eventually won over both kinds of woodpeckers. This is just one > reason why the Eur. starling is such a successful and adaptive > invader all over North America (and where else?). Cheers from Jim > in Wolfville. > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Paul Steele <paul.steele@acadiau.ca> >> Date: June 22, 2013 8:32:30 PM ADT >> To: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> >> Subject: Re: update on woodpeckers etc.? >> >> Unfortunately the starlings won the battle for both nests. I >> watched the starlings a bit but they're not as interesting as the >> bigger birds. I'm surprised the woodpeckers didn't battle harder >> for the nests. Hopefully they'll try again next year. >> > > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/ > nature_blomidonnaturalists.ca --Apple-Mail-21-719891017 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><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>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[ValleyNature] starlings vs. = pileated w. & flickers 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>THANKS, PAUL! and = keep monitoring while you can!</div><div><br></div>Some of you will = recall Paul Steele's images from along Kent Ave. in Wolfville, where his = tall poplars in his back yard held a successful nesting of pileated = woodpeckers, who produced two fledged young, a male and a female. = Well, this year the pileateds tried again, with flickers attending = another cavity just 2 metres or less above the PIWOs. But = starlings competed with them and eventually won over both kinds of = woodpeckers. This is just one reason why the Eur. starling is such = a successful and adaptive invader all over North America (and where = else?). Cheers from Jim in Wolfville.<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">Paul Steele <<a = href=3D"mailto:paul.steele@acadiau.ca">paul.steele@acadiau.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">June 22, 2013 8:32:30 PM = ADT</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">"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>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: update on woodpeckers = etc.?</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; ">Unfortunately the starlings won the battle for both = nests. I watched the starlings a bit but they're not as interesting as = the bigger birds. I'm surprised the woodpeckers didn't battle harder for = the nests. Hopefully they'll try again next year.</div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; = "><br></div></blockquote></div><br><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-21-719891017--
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