[NatureNS] Golden-crowned Kinglet family group

Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 08:48:17 -0300 (ADT)
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   <span style="font-size: 14pt;">Maybe birders are noticing a lack of insects Susann!</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 14pt;">but anglers seem not in agreement but maybe birders</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 14pt;">blood is not in this year! Just like wine.<br/></span>
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   <span style="font-size: 14pt;">Enjoy the last days of spring<br/></span>
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   On June 20, 2016 at 7:02 AM Susann Myers &#60;myerss@eastlink.ca&#62; wrote:
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    <span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pat McKay and I did some woods birding yesterday along the Old Mineville Road, a very quiet rough track&#160;that runs between West Porters Lake and Mineville, HRM.&#160; In one area there were a lot of Golden-crowned Kinglet calls, and we saw a group of more than 4&#160;kinglets&#160;flitting around in the woods together, feeding and calling.&#160; We couldn&#39;t get a good enough look to confirm fledgling plumage, but this appeared to be a family group.</span>
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    <span style="font-family: Calibri;">A little research confirmed that this is the right season for a first brood of fledglings to be out of the nest and moving about with their parents.&#160; </span>
    <span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tufts gives&#160;April 16 for the average start of nesting on Wolfville Ridge, and roughly mid-May for the completion of egg laying.&#160; <em>The Birders&#39; Handbook</em> indicates that incubation takes 14-15 days, and fledging another 14-19; it also indicates that this kinglet&#160;typically has 2 broods.</span>
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    <span style="font-family: Calibri;">Also notable were a good showing of butterflies and a lack of other flying insects - no black flies, and the only mosquitoes that bothered us were at a salt marsh in the early morning, where we&#160;went to hear Sora.&#160; Although the day became windy, there was no wind felt down at ground level in the woods.&#160; Are other birders noting this absence of insecs?</span>
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    <span style="font-family: Calibri;">Cheers,</span>
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    <span style="font-family: Calibri;">Susann Myers</span>
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