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&gt; &gt;&gt <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org= /TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/1999/xht= ml"><head> <meta content=3D"text/html; charset=3DUTF-8" http-equiv=3D"Content-Type= "/> =20 </head><body style=3D""> =20 <div> Hi Carmel and All </div>=20 <div> I find sparrows in winter, song, white-throat and tree at least are very= attracted to our </div>=20 <div> azalea and rhodo plants. The best is the Royal azalea now over 30 years = old that flowers </div>=20 <div> well each year and is tall enough - about 3 meters - to be above the sno= w. I never pick many </div>=20 <div> flowers and it seems to set a lot of seed. The sparrows like the seed ev= en if the seed is tiny. </div>=20 <div> and will additionally feed at the bird feeders. </div>=20 <div> The azaleas that produce seed are species not the hybrids found usually.= No doubt the </div>=20 <div> birds find their seed similar to the rhodora seed a very close relative. </div>=20 <div> Have a nice spring </div>=20 <div> Paul </div>=20 <blockquote style=3D"padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 0px; border-left-co= lor: blue; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; position: rela= tive;" type=3D"cite"> On April 21, 2015 at 11:41 AM Carmel Smith <girlby@yahoo.com> wr= ote: <br/> <br/>=20 <div style=3D"color: #000000; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-seri= f; font-size: 13px; background-color: #ffffff;">=20 <div dir=3D"ltr"> <span>I had zero sparrows over-winter here this year.  The first = ones to reappear were the song sparrow and the fox sparrow earlier this mon= th.  Still have to see white-throat or any other species here (just te= n minutes outside Bridgewater)</span> </div>=20 <div dir=3D"ltr"> <span> </span> </div>=20 <div dir=3D"ltr"> <span>Carmel Smith</span> </div>=20 <div dir=3D"ltr"> <span>Midville</span> </div>=20 <br/>=20 <div class=3D"qtdSeparateBR"> <br/> <br/> </div>=20 <div style=3D"display: block;" class=3D"yahoo_quoted">=20 <div style=3D"font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: = 13px;">=20 <div style=3D"font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, = Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">=20 <div dir=3D"ltr"> <span style=3D"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"> On Monday, A= pril 20, 2015 1:16 AM, "Hubcove@aol.com" <Hubcove@aol.com> = wrote:<br/> </span> </div>=20 <br/> <br/>=20 <div class=3D"y_msg_container">=20 <div id=3D"yiv6366715742">=20 <div>=20 <div> Several here in Hubbards this morning. </div>=20 <div> Peter Stow </div>=20 <div>   </div>=20 <div>=20 <div> In a message dated 2015-04-18 11:36:03 P.M. Atlantic Daylight T= ime, plchalmers@ns.sympatico.ca writes: </div>=20 <blockquote style=3D"padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border= -left-color: blue; border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid;"> <span style=3D"color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: s= mall; background-color: transparent;">Jim,<br/><br/>You are right, usually = some do overwinter in the area.  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  for the Bedford-Sackville CBC, which includes m= y parents' neighbourhood. <br/><br/>Until yesterday,  I hadn'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/>> ---- Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> wrote: l<b= r/>> > But don=E2=80=99t they also overwinter in Metro Hfx. & S= ackville?  How can you tell spring birds vs. overwinterers?  Chee= rs, and happy spring, from Jim<br/>> > <br/>> > Begin forwa= rded message:<br/>> > <br/>> > > From: plchalmers@ns.sy= mpatico.ca<br/>> > > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] White-throated Spa= rrows<br/>> > > Date: April 18, 2015 at 5:00:40 PM ADT<br/>>= ; > > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<br/>> > > Reply-To: n= aturens@chebucto.ns.ca<br/>> > > <br/>> > > I heard= and saw my first White-throated Sparrows of the year yesterday evening at = my parents' home in Bedford. They breed in our woods.<br/>> > &= #62; <br/>> > > Cheers,<br/>> > > <br/>> > = > Patricia L. Chalmers<br/>> > > Halifax<br/>> > &#= 62; <br/>> > > ---- Andrew Stadnyk <Andrew.Stadnyk@Dal.WCa&= #62; wrote: <br/>> > >> This week we had our first spring W= T Sparrows.  We get them in the fall but never in the spring.  An= d now they (he?) are singing!  Delightful.<br/>> > >> = <br/>> > >> <br/>> > >> Andy Stadnyk<br/>&#= 62; > >> <br/>> > >> Lower Sackville<br/>> = > > <br/>> > <br/></span> </blockquote>=20 </div>=20 </div>=20 </div>=20 <br/> <br/> </div>=20 </div>=20 </div>=20 </div>=20 </div>=20 </blockquote>=20