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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail=_32D5D2BC-5349-420B-8D14-0DBAC085DCC8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Thanks Lois, I=E2=80=99m sorry they were never near enough to see any details. there = were 2 flocks. Very wild and or active. The thing that impressed me was = their call, alarm,, that I had never experienced before!=20 I=E2=80=99m 90 years old and a biologist. Surely someone on Naturens has = experienced running into them somewhere?? They were obviously migrating, = I assume southward. They certainly were not Grackles! Paul. > On Oct 21, 2019, at 8:21 AM, Chris Kennedy <cjkennedy66@gmail.com> = wrote: >=20 > Could be Common Grackles? >=20 > They flock up this time of year and have a rather bizarre collection = of sounds. >=20 > -chris kennedy in Dartmouth >=20 > On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 10:43 PM Lois Codling = <loiscodling@hfx.eastlink.ca <mailto:loiscodling@hfx.eastlink.ca>> = wrote: > Paul, could you give us some more info on your Thanksgiving birds? = What=20 > colour were they? Any markings to distinguish them - eg. wing shape,=20= > wingbars, beak shape, tail size, facial pattern like eye stripe or=20 > ring? What did they sound like? Did they appear to be eating insects=20= > or berries (there wouldn't be any blueberries left, would there?)? =20 > Anything you noticed about their behaviour that would help ID? >=20 > Lois Codling >=20 >=20 > On 10/17/2019 7:01 PM, Paul Ruggles wrote: > > Hi. > > Could someone help me identify a strange (for me) bird > > Was in Parsborough for Thanksgiving and saw two flocks staying = together - about 20 in each group. > > Strangest song (or alarm call) the I have ever heard. > > Birds roughly robin size but bulkier. > > On a logging road among blueberry Barrons. > > Paul R. > > > > >=20 --Apple-Mail=_32D5D2BC-5349-420B-8D14-0DBAC085DCC8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Dutf-8"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" = class=3D"">Thanks Lois,<div class=3D"">I=E2=80=99m sorry they were never = near enough to see any details. there were 2 flocks. Very wild and or = active. The thing that impressed me was their call, alarm,, that I = had never experienced before! </div><div class=3D"">I=E2=80=99m 90 = years old and a biologist. Surely someone on Naturens has experienced = running into them somewhere?? They were obviously migrating, I assume = southward. They certainly were not Grackles!</div><div class=3D"">Paul.<br= class=3D""><div><br class=3D""><blockquote type=3D"cite" class=3D""><div = class=3D"">On Oct 21, 2019, at 8:21 AM, Chris Kennedy <<a = href=3D"mailto:cjkennedy66@gmail.com" = class=3D"">cjkennedy66@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=3D""><div dir=3D"ltr" = class=3D""><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"">Could be Common Grackles?<div = class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">They flock up this time = of year and have a rather bizarre collection of sounds.</div><div = class=3D""><br class=3D""></div><div class=3D"">-chris kennedy in = Dartmouth</div></div><br class=3D""><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div = dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 20, 2019 at 10:43 PM Lois = Codling <<a href=3D"mailto:loiscodling@hfx.eastlink.ca" = class=3D"">loiscodling@hfx.eastlink.ca</a>> wrote:<br = class=3D""></div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px = 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid = rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Paul, could you give us some more = info on your Thanksgiving birds? What <br class=3D""> colour were they? Any markings to distinguish them - eg. wing shape, <br = class=3D""> wingbars, beak shape, tail size, facial pattern like eye stripe or <br = class=3D""> ring? What did they sound like? Did they appear to be eating = insects <br class=3D""> or berries (there wouldn't be any blueberries left, would there?)? = <br class=3D""> Anything you noticed about their behaviour that would help ID?<br = class=3D""> <br class=3D""> Lois Codling<br class=3D""> <br class=3D""> <br class=3D""> On 10/17/2019 7:01 PM, Paul Ruggles wrote:<br class=3D""> > Hi.<br class=3D""> > Could someone help me identify a strange (for me) bird<br class=3D"">= > Was in Parsborough for Thanksgiving and saw two flocks staying = together - about 20 in each group.<br class=3D""> > Strangest song (or alarm call) the I have ever heard.<br class=3D""> > Birds roughly robin size but bulkier.<br class=3D""> > On a logging road among blueberry Barrons.<br class=3D""> > Paul R.<br class=3D""> ><br class=3D""> ><br class=3D""> <br class=3D""> </blockquote></div></div> </div></blockquote></div><br class=3D""></div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_32D5D2BC-5349-420B-8D14-0DBAC085DCC8--
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