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Starlings have a good memory=2C Eleanor=2C so expect the worse. However you=
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Hopefully your Oriole will survive the winter. If it does=2C it's one of a =
small number that have.
Angus
Date: Fri=2C 24 Jan 2014 08:37:40 -0400
From: kelindsay@eastlink.ca
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
Subject: [NatureNS] Starlings
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thought it highly likely it could not survive the very cold night=0A=
that followed. During the evening of the storm day I made some=0A=
makeshift modifications to a spherical hanging feeder with a 1"=0A=
mesh around it (which I knew the oriole would go through but not=0A=
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<body class=3D'hmmessage'><div dir=3D'ltr'>Starlings have a good memory=2C =
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that followed. During the evening of the storm day I made some=0A=
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St Margarets Bay <br>=0A=
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