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=C2 <html><head></head><body lang=3D"en-US" link=3D"blue" vlink=3D"purple" styl= e=3D"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"> = = <div style=3D"width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Sla= te Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initi= al; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Chris and I have a suet cage nai= led to a pine tree and we have two Brown Creepers enjoying the easy meal ri= ght now :)</div><div style=3D"width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family:= Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); tex= t-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div sty= le=3D"width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', s= ans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; backgr= ound-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Kate</div><div style=3D"width: 100%; font-= size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; c= olor: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255= , 255);"><br></div> = = <div style=3D"width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Sla= te Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initi= al; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br style=3D"display:initial"></= div> = = <div style=3D"font-size: i= nitial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: r= gb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);= ">Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone on&nb= sp;the Bell network.</div> = = <table widt= h=3D"100%" style=3D"background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr= ><td colspan=3D"2" style=3D"font-size: initial; text-align: initial; backgr= ound-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div style=3D"b= order-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-= top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, 'BB Alpha Sans',= 'Slate Pro'; font-size: 10pt;"> <div><b>From: </b>Donna Crossland</div><d= iv><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, February 16, 2017 1:06 PM</div><div><b>To: </b>na= turens@chebucto.ns.ca</div><div><b>Reply To: </b>naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</d= iv><div><b>Subject: </b>RE: [NatureNS] still supplementing the Sapsucker</d= iv></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style=3D"border-style: solid none n= one; border-top-color: rgb(186, 188, 209); border-top-width: 1pt; font-size= : initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></di= v><br><div id=3D"_originalContent" style=3D""><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-T= ype" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dutf-8"><meta name=3D"Generator" conten= t=3D"Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"><style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} @font-face {font-family:Tahoma; panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-priority:99; color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-priority:99; color:purple; text-decoration:underline;} span.emailstyle17 {mso-style-name:emailstyle17; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:windowtext;} span.EmailStyle18 {mso-style-type:personal-reply; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; font-size:10.0pt;} @page WordSection1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} --></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapedefaults v:ext=3D"edit" spidmax=3D"1026" /> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapelayout v:ext=3D"edit"> <o:idmap v:ext=3D"edit" data=3D"1" /> </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class=3D"WordSection1"><p class=3D"M= soNormal"><span style=3D"color:#1F497D">Take it easy on the shovelling, Pau= l. The snow that is piled up over the bases of my windows in the vall= ey is about as high as I have ever seen it since we=E2=80=99ve been living = here. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"col= or:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style= =3D"color:#1F497D">I think some people get brown creepers at their feeders.= (Maybe someone will tell me.) I am missing that species here. = There is nothing like the male=E2=80=99s sudden cheerful-sounding son= g in a spruce-hemlock stand in early spring. Maybe if we can al= low more forest to grow near the house, we=E2=80=99ll get some. It=E2= =80=99s still pretty open around here, and I am sure the sapsucker would li= ke for us to recreate the woodland that would have been here some 400 years= ago. We=E2=80=99ve added a pond last year so that should help the tr= ee swallows in their nest boxes this year. You can keep your black du= cks though, at least for now. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=3D= "MsoNormal"><span style=3D"color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p cl= ass=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"color:#1F497D">There seem to be an ever-gr= owing number of goldfinches. Maybe that=E2=80=99s because we are grow= ing more shrubbery than trees in NS? The evening grosbeaks are here a= nd gone each day. No red polls this year.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p cla= ss=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>= <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"color:#1F497D">The suet mixed with bl= ack oil sunflwr seed is in high demand