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Dec. 27, 2007 - We had three highlights from our Wolfville feeders today: a
single female or imm. EVENING GROSBEAK; a record number of 3 female N.
CARDINALS in sight at once; and a gorgeously coloured (very red-faced) cock
PHEASANT aggressively ran across the yard directly at a long female/imm.
pheasant, ran a tight circle around her/it, and then appeared to forage near
her/it. I donıt know how to account for the pheasant behaviour; surely the
slight change in times of sunrise/sunset since the solstice cannot cause any
hormonal shift yet??
Other birds in our yard included the CLAY-COLOURED and imm. WHITE-CROWNED
SPARROWS, male? red-breasted nuthatch, male flicker, at least 10 blue jays
(more than usual), 6 chickadees, 3 mourning doves, lots of juncos, 6+
white-throated sparrows, downy woodpecker, 2 rock pigeons, etc.?
Cheers :-) from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204
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Jim (James W.) Wolford
91 Wickwire Avenue
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada
B4P 1W3
phone (902)542-9204 (home)
fax (902)585-1059 (Acadia Univ. Biology Dept.)
e-mail <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
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"Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."
- Mark Twain
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³Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient
premises² --
-- Samuel Butler
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