[NatureNS] Re: White-throated Sparrows

Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 16:49:59 -0300 (ADT)
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   Hi Carmel and All
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   I find sparrows in winter, song, white-throat and tree at least are very=
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   azalea and rhodo plants. The best is the Royal azalea now over 30 years =
old that flowers
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   well each year and is tall enough - about 3 meters - to be above the sno=
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   flowers and it seems to set a lot of seed. The sparrows like the seed ev=
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   and will additionally feed at the bird feeders.
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   The azaleas that produce seed are species not the hybrids found usually.=
 No doubt the
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   birds find their seed similar to the rhodora seed a very close relative.
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   Have a nice spring
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   Paul
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   On April 21, 2015 at 11:41 AM Carmel Smith &#60;girlby@yahoo.com&#62; wr=
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     <span>I had zero sparrows over-winter here this year. &#160;The first =
ones to reappear were the song sparrow and the fox sparrow earlier this mon=
th. &#160;Still have to see white-throat or any other species here (just te=
n minutes outside Bridgewater)</span>
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     <span>Carmel Smith</span>
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        <span style=3D"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> On Monday, A=
pril 20, 2015 1:16 AM, &#34;Hubcove@aol.com&#34; &#60;Hubcove@aol.com&#62; =
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           Several here in Hubbards this morning.
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           Peter Stow
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            In a message dated 2015-04-18 11:36:03 P.M. Atlantic Daylight T=
ime, plchalmers@ns.sympatico.ca writes:
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mall; background-color: transparent;">Jim,<br/><br/>You are right, usually =
some do overwinter in the area.&#160; But most sparrows were very scarce in=
 my experience this winter (except for Song Sparrows), and numbers were dow=
n on the Christmas Bird Counts that I participated in. I had no White-throa=
ts at all on my route&#160; for the Bedford-Sackville CBC, which includes m=
y parents&#39; neighbourhood. <br/><br/>Until yesterday,&#160; I hadn&#39;t=
 seen any since the Halifax-Dartmouth CBC, when I had just three in a full =
day of birding on foot in good habitat.<br/><br/>Cheers,<br/><br/>Patricia<=
br/><br/>&#62; ---- Jim Wolford &#60;jimwolford@eastlink.ca&#62; wrote: l<b=
r/>&#62; &#62; But don=E2=80=99t they also overwinter in Metro Hfx. &#38; S=
ackville?&#160; How can you tell spring birds vs. overwinterers?&#160; Chee=
rs, and happy spring, from Jim<br/>&#62; &#62; <br/>&#62; &#62; Begin forwa=
rded message:<br/>&#62; &#62; <br/>&#62; &#62; &#62; From: plchalmers@ns.sy=
mpatico.ca<br/>&#62; &#62; &#62; Subject: Re: [NatureNS] White-throated Spa=
rrows<br/>&#62; &#62; &#62; Date: April 18, 2015 at 5:00:40 PM ADT<br/>&#62=
; &#62; &#62; To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<br/>&#62; &#62; &#62; Reply-To: n=
aturens@chebucto.ns.ca<br/>&#62; &#62; &#62; <br/>&#62; &#62; &#62; I heard=
 and saw my first White-throated Sparrows of the year yesterday evening at =
my parents&#39; home in Bedford. They breed in our woods.<br/>&#62; &#62; &=
#62; <br/>&#62; &#62; &#62; Cheers,<br/>&#62; &#62; &#62; <br/>&#62; &#62; =
&#62; Patricia L. Chalmers<br/>&#62; &#62; &#62; Halifax<br/>&#62; &#62; &#=
62; <br/>&#62; &#62; &#62; ---- Andrew Stadnyk &#60;Andrew.Stadnyk@Dal.WCa&=
#62; wrote: <br/>&#62; &#62; &#62;&#62; This week we had our first spring W=
T Sparrows.&#160; We get them in the fall but never in the spring.&#160; An=
d now they (he?) are singing!&#160; Delightful.<br/>&#62; &#62; &#62;&#62; =
<br/>&#62; &#62; &#62;&#62; <br/>&#62; &#62; &#62;&#62; Andy Stadnyk<br/>&#=
62; &#62; &#62;&#62; <br/>&#62; &#62; &#62;&#62; Lower Sackville<br/>&#62; =
&#62; &#62; <br/>&#62; &#62; <br/></span>
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