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Index of Subjects --_000_43823CDCFC1F49E9B1C44342EAADB739dalca_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Peter: along with many Downy and a few Hairy WPs, we have a single N. F= licker show up occasionally at our hanging-log suet+peanut butter feeders e= very winter, though not necessarily always the same bird. The Smithsonian = Field Guide to the Birds of N. Am (2008, 1st ed., map on p. 280 but you nee= d a magnifying glass to read it) confirms that this species has year-round = residential status in coastal and southern Nova Scotia: at least some bird= s here don=92t migrate. My Sibley=92s Guide to Birds (2000, 1st ed.,) map = on p.318 is less detailed in that it doesn=92t show this, though I think th= ere=92s a later edition. As a come-from-away used to house-owners=92 bird-baths and who once wondere= d idly how birds here get any water at all when the lake freezes over, the = first time I ever saw the solution was from this same N. Flicker repeatedly= eating snow off the piles on our back deck rail in January or so, some yea= rs back. I=92ve since seen other birds like starlings do it often and imag= ine it is commonplace for other species in winter here after it has snowed.= I=92m not sure how much water they get this way, however, versus direct = from oxidation of their food (like gerbils), but no doubt this is known for= some species and a real birder perhaps may inform us. Steve in Hfx ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= -------- On Nov 3, 2018, at 12:39 PM, Hubcove@aol.com<mailto:Hubcove@aol.com> wrote: I have some suet out for the woodpeckers but was very surprised to see a ye= llow shafted flicker show up this morning. They are pretty common here in t= he summer but I have never seen one this late and never at a feeder. Peter Stow Hubbards --_000_43823CDCFC1F49E9B1C44342EAADB739dalca_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-ID: <930D39919F2D8A479230FC45C8161276@CANPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <head> <meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3DWindows-1= 252"> </head> <body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-lin= e-break: after-white-space;"> Hi Peter: along with many Downy and a few Hairy WPs, we have a single= N. Flicker show up occasionally at our hanging-log suet+peanut butter = feeders every winter, though not necessarily always the same bird. Th= e Smithsonian Field Guide to the Birds of N. Am (2008, 1st ed., map on p. 280 but you need a magnifying glass to read it) = confirms that this species has year-round residential status in coastal and= southern Nova Scotia: at least some birds here don=92t migrate. &nbs= p;My Sibley=92s Guide to Birds (2000, 1st ed.,) map on p.318 is less detailed in that it doesn=92t show this, though I thi= nk there=92s a later edition. <div><br> </div> <div>As a come-from-away used to house-owners=92 bird-baths and who once wo= ndered idly how birds here get any water at all when the lake freezes over,= the first time I ever saw the solution was from this same N. Flicker repea= tedly eating snow off the piles on our back deck rail in January or so, some years back. I=92ve since s= een other birds like starlings do it often and imagine it is commonplace fo= r other species in winter here after it has snowed. I=92m not sure h= ow much water they get this way, however, versus direct from oxidation of their food (like gerbils), but no doubt this is k= nown for some species and a real birder perhaps may inform us. </div> <div>Steve in Hfx<br> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------= --------<br> <div> <div>On Nov 3, 2018, at 12:39 PM, <a href=3D"mailto:Hubcove@aol.com">Hubcov= e@aol.com</a> wrote:</div> <br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"> <blockquote type=3D"cite"> <div> <div class=3D"userEdit" style=3D"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;= font-size: 10pt;"> <div><span style=3D"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1= 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;= ">I have some suet out for the woodpeckers but was very surprised to see a = yellow shafted flicker show up this morning. They are pretty common here in the summer but I have never seen o= ne this late and never at a feeder.</span><br> <br> </span></div> <div><span style=3D"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1= 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;= ">Peter Stow</span></span></div> <div><span style=3D"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1= 0pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;= ">Hubbards</span></span></div> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> <br> </div> </body> </html> --_000_43823CDCFC1F49E9B1C44342EAADB739dalca_--
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