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--Apple-Mail-9-260793239 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > Subject: [ValleyNature] re behaviour of nesting WB Nuthatches > > Thanks for your note, Bernice & Bill! Is it the Cambridge area > where you live? (nw. of Coldbrook?). I will send your note and > questions to our two lists of naturalists for feedback on your > interesting observations. Glad you have some white-breasts back! > Cheers from Jim, in B.C. for another 10 days or so. > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: The Naylors <bbnaylor@ns.sympatico.ca> >> Date: April 29, 2013 12:40:39 PM ADT >> To: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> >> Subject: WB nuthatches >> >> Hi >> >> Approx 6 years ago a pair of wb nuthatches raised 6 young in a >> bird house in our back yard. We got to see them fledge at that >> time. The box has not been used by anyone since. This year >> another pair of the WBN are back at it and are very busy. One >> bird (I'm presunming the female. Maybe I'm being politically >> incorrect here!) is very busy rubbing a black thing back and >> forth over the outside of the box, including the top where he/she >> is removing the lichen that has built up. Odd behaviour? >> >> Bernice Naylor >> >> PS: Bill has just read that this bird will sometimes rub a >> noxious smelling bug to deter other birds, etc from getting into >> the nest. Possible answer? Interesting behaviour to watch. She/ >> he has been at it for most of the morning. > > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/ > nature_blomidonnaturalists.ca --Apple-Mail-9-260793239 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[ValleyNature] re behaviour of = nesting WB Nuthatches</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: = 14px; "><br></div> Thanks for your note, Bernice & Bill! Is = it the Cambridge area where you live? (nw. of Coldbrook?). I will = send your note and questions to our two lists of naturalists for = feedback on your interesting observations. Glad you have some = white-breasts back! Cheers from Jim, in B.C. for another 10 days = or so.<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">The Naylors <<a = href=3D"mailto:bbnaylor@ns.sympatico.ca">bbnaylor@ns.sympatico.ca</a>><= /font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">April 29, 2013 12:40:39 PM = ADT</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">"James W. Wolford" <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>></fon= t></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>WB nuthatches</b></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: = rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: = normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: = normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: = none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><font = size=3D"2" face=3D"Arial">Hi</font></div><div><font size=3D"2" = face=3D"Arial"></font> </div><div><font size=3D"2" = face=3D"Arial">Approx 6 years ago a pair of wb nuthatches raised 6 young = in a bird house in our back yard. We got to see them fledge at = that time. The box has not been used by anyone since. This = year another pair of the WBN are back at it and are very busy. One = bird (I'm presunming the female. Maybe I'm being politically incorrect = here!) is very busy rubbing a black thing back and forth over the = outside of the box, including the top where he/she is removing the = lichen that has built up. Odd behaviour?</font></div><div><font = size=3D"2" face=3D"Arial"></font> </div><div><font size=3D"2" = face=3D"Arial">Bernice Naylor</font></div><div><font size=3D"2" = face=3D"Arial"></font> </div><div><font size=3D"2" = face=3D"Arial">PS: Bill has just read that this bird will = sometimes rub a noxious smelling bug to deter other birds, etc from = getting into the nest. Possible answer? Interesting = behaviour to watch. She/he has been at it for most of the = morning.