[NatureNS] Jim's feeders in Wolfville

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> From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
> Date: December 24, 2012 5:35:43 PM AST
> To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca>
> Subject: [ValleyNature] Jim's feeders in Wolfville
>
> DEC. 24, 2012 - Our one-legged starling is still present and  
> apparently getting along OK, feeding on the ground as well as on  
> suet cake and bird pie (quite awkward at the latter).  I also saw a  
> female or immature purple finch, with a few goldfinches.  Also I  
> saw 2 robins, one of them quite pale in both upper and lower parts,  
> in our multiflora rose-hips.
>
> Other feeder visitors include up to 10 mourning doves, 4+ blue  
> jays, 6 bl.-c. chickadees, 2+ starlings, 3 cardinals (1m,2f), 5+  
> juncos, 5 white-throated sparrows, 1 or 2? song sparrows, 2  
> goldfinches, 1 red squirrel.
>
> I still have not definitely seen a Norway rat for quite a while,  
> but I suspect at least one is still present and spending most of  
> its time in the burrow system that is also used by our sleeping?  
> chipmunk and the active red squirrel -- how communal!?  Another  
> large entrance/exit for this burrow system very recently appeared,  
> just a few feet from where I had recently moved the bottom of an  
> old pheasant feeder for cracked corn and white millet seeds.
>
> Still a very shallow skiff of snow on the ground, and temperatures  
> are quite cold, cold enough to show us a somewhat white Christmas  
> tomorrow?
>
> Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, and HAPPY HOLIDAY & NEW YEAR!
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Wolfville</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: =
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size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Times New Roman"><b>DEC. 24, 2012</b> - =
Our <b>one-legged starling</b> is still present and apparently getting =
along OK, feeding on the ground as well as on suet cake and bird pie =
(quite awkward at the latter).&nbsp; I also saw a female or immature =
<b>purple finch</b>, with a few goldfinches.&nbsp; Also I saw 2 =
<b>robins</b>, one of them quite pale in both upper and lower parts, in =
our multiflora rose-hips.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; =
margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal =
normal normal 13px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px; =
"><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; =
margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Times New Roman" =
size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Times New Roman">Other feeder visitors =
include up to 10 mourning doves, 4+ blue jays, 6 bl.-c. chickadees, 2+ =
starlings, 3 cardinals (1m,2f), 5+ juncos, 5 white-throated sparrows, 1 =
or 2? song sparrows, 2 goldfinches, 1 red squirrel. =
&nbsp;</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; =
margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal =
13px/normal 'Times New Roman'; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div =
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margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"4" =
style=3D"font: 13.0px Times New Roman">I still have not definitely seen =
a <b>Norway rat</b> for quite a while, but I suspect at least one is =
still present and spending most of its time in the <b>burrow system =
</b>that is also used by our sleeping? <b>chipmunk</b> and the active =
<b>red squirrel</b> -- how communal!?&nbsp; Another large<b> =
entrance/exit</b> for this burrow system very recently appeared, just a =
few feet from where I had recently moved the bottom of an old pheasant =
feeder for cracked corn and white millet seeds.</font></div><div =
style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; =
margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal 'Times New =
Roman'; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; =
margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font =
face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Times New =
Roman">Still a very shallow skiff of snow on the ground, and =
temperatures are quite cold, cold enough to show us a somewhat <b>white =
Christmas tomorrow?</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; =
margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font =
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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font =
face=3D"Times New Roman" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Times New =
Roman"><b>Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, and HAPPY HOLIDAY &amp; NEW =
YEAR!</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; =
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