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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Well Eric and All Sat evening I was watching a program</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">on TV The Semaine Verte - I am not perfectly fluent in French<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">but I can follow. Its always a good program on farming, forestry,  fishing<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">and so on. A common sense program!<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Anyway that one was on the Spruce Budworm in Quebec and how it<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">was spreading. No doubt the smaller birds had lots to eat in those areas<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">where the budworm was common. When winter descended they would have<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">took off in masse and some found us in Nova Scotia.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Budworm is a plague we could do without.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Enjoy the rain<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Paul<br/></span>
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On January 20, 2018 at 5:12 PM Eric Mills <E.Mills@Dal.Ca> wrote:
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Today, January 20, my son Chris and I drove from Brier Island to the Bridgewater area and to my home in Lower Rose Bay, Lunenburg Co., Our route was along Hwy 217 on Long Island and Digby Neck, along 101 to the Bear River turnoff, then across country via Bear River and the Virginia East Road to Hwy 8, thence south to South Brookfield and Hwy 208, then W to Hwy 325 and south to Bridgewater and beyond - very roughly 220 km in total.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">There were Juncos along the whole route, going up from the roadsides in groups of 2-3 to more than 100 at a time. Our total was many hundreds, and likely in the thousands. I have seen numbers like these along that route in October, but January is most unusual.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Circumstantial evidence for sure, but I have no doubt that these birds are new arrivals in the province, probably related to stormy weather during the past few days in New Brunswick. Our feeders in Lower Rose Bay seemed to attract high numbers starting about the 16th or 17th, coinciding with the last snowfalls.</p>
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Eric L. Mills</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Lower Rose Bay</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Lunenburg Co., NS</p>
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