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--f403043608340a552b054c479314 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 All, This past weekend was the last one for participating in this year's Project FeederWatch. In summary, this had to be the least diverse year at my feeders, ever. I have been at my current location for 16 years, and have never had such homogeneous results. My home is in the woods...very rural. Here are the typical weekly results...the week to week variation was so little that there's no point in graphing. Mourning Dove 1 (and it only arrived in the last half of the survey) Downy Woodpecker 3-4 Hairy Woodpecker 1-2 Blue Jay 12 or so American Crow 2 Black-capped Chickadee 10 or so Over the winter I had two or three visits by Evening Grosbeaks, and very early on I think I had a goldfinch. The lack of finches this year was disturbing. For the first time in over a decade, I did not put out carrion...even Bird Studies Canada commented on my lack of eagles in my reports! I missed the ravens and other non-typical feeder birds that the carrion would have lured. Despite this, on Saturday I had an eagle on the ground in my garden, right at my compost bins. I had not recently put in any chicken bones or other meal left overs which would have explained this visit. It was probably one of "my" eagles from last year which was checking things out up close, just to make sure. And, more weirdly, I had up to 23 crows on the weekend...I can only think that it was "my" crows' turn to host their Annual General Meeting...there was nothing in the compost to attract them, either...though a few did root around in there. Randy _________________________________ RF Lauff Way in the boonies of Antigonish County, NS. --f403043608340a552b054c479314 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr">All,<div><br></div><div>This past weekend was the last one= for participating in this year's Project FeederWatch. In summary, this= had to be the least diverse year at my feeders, ever. I have been at my cu= rrent location for 16 years, and have never had such homogeneous results. M= y home is in the woods...very rural. Here are the typical weekly results...= the week to week variation was so little that there's no point in graph= ing.</div><div><br></div><div>Mourning Dove 1 (and it only arrived in the l= ast half of the survey)</div><div>Downy Woodpecker 3-4</div><div>Hairy Wood= pecker 1-2</div><div>Blue Jay 12 or so</div><div>American Crow 2</div><div>= Black-capped Chickadee 10 or so</div><div><br></div><div>Over the winter I = had two or three visits by Evening Grosbeaks, and very early on I think I h= ad a goldfinch. The lack of finches this year was disturbing.</div><div><br= ></div><div>For the first time in over a decade, I did not put out carrion.= ..even Bird Studies Canada commented on my lack of eagles in my reports! I = missed the ravens and other non-typical feeder birds that the carrion would= have lured. Despite this, on Saturday I had an eagle on the ground in my g= arden, right at my compost bins. I had not recently put in any chicken bone= s or other meal left overs which would have explained this visit. It was pr= obably one of "my" eagles from last year which was checking thing= s out up close, just to make sure. And, more weirdly, I had up to 23 crows = on the weekend...I can only think that it was "my" crows' tur= n to host their Annual General Meeting...there was nothing in the compost t= o attract them, either...though a few did root around in there.</div><div><= br></div><div>Randy<br clear=3D"all"><div><div class=3D"gmail_signature" da= ta-smartmail=3D"gmail_signature">_________________________________<br>RF La= uff<br>Way in the boonies of<br>Antigonish County, NS.</div></div> </div></div> --f403043608340a552b054c479314--
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