[NatureNS] recent nature re feeders & yard + large dark squirrel

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> From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
> Date: February 26, 2014 11:39:04 AM AST
> To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca>
> Subject: [ValleyNature] recent nature re feeders & yard
>
> FEB. 24, 2014 - Today again I saw at least 4 robins briefly in our  
> yard.
>
> FEB. 25, 2014 - Many more robins in our neighborhood today, at  
> least 25 seen at once but probably many more actually.  Our male  
> cardinal was with them at one point, and I think they were all  
> after multiflora rose hips, which are very abundant in our  
> neighborhood and throughout Wolfville.
>
> FEB. 26, 2014 - Our feeders were visited by a female flicker  
> (regular), our pair (m,f) of cardinals (mentioned here because I  
> have not been seeing them much lately), 4+ chickadees, 4-6  
> pheasants (2 separate cocks + 3 or more hens), 2 song sparrows, 5  
> or more white-throated sparrows, 2 juncos, up to 3 goldfinches, 2+  
> mourning doves (up to 10 or so sometimes), 1-2 downy woodpeckers, a  
> few starlings, 3 crows, 2 blue jays, and occasionally a white- 
> breasted nuthatch.  We still have a regular red squirrel, and,  
> happily, no recent sightings of our 2 Norway rats.
>
> Speaking of squirrels, recently Brenda Thexton in east Wolfville  
> reported that she and her "kids" Dianne & Bob occasionally see a  
> large squirrel like a gray squirrel that is coloured dark brown or  
> gray-brown, not the normal gray or black pelages.
>
> Cheers from Jim in Wolfville
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feeders &amp; yard</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; =
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14px; "><br></div> <div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; =
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size=3D"5" style=3D"font: 16.0px Helvetica"><b>FEB. 24, 2014 </b>- Today =
again I saw at least 4<b> robins</b> briefly in our =
yard.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; =
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16.0px Helvetica"><b>FEB. 25, 2014 </b>- Many more<b> robins</b> in our =
neighborhood today, at least 25 seen at once but probably many more =
actually.&nbsp; Our male<b> cardinal </b>was with them at one point, and =
I think they were all after multiflora rose hips, which are very =
abundant in our neighborhood and throughout Wolfville.</font></div><div =
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26, 2014 </b>- <b>Our feeders</b> were visited by a female<b> =
flicker</b> (regular), our pair (m,f) of <b>cardinals</b> (mentioned =
here because I have not been seeing them much lately), 4+ chickadees, =
4-6 pheasants (2 separate cocks + 3 or more hens), 2 song sparrows, 5 or =
more white-throated sparrows, 2 juncos, up to 3 goldfinches, 2+ mourning =
doves (up to 10 or so sometimes), 1-2 downy woodpeckers, a few =
starlings, 3 crows, 2 blue jays, and occasionally a <b>white-breasted =
nuthatch</b>.&nbsp; We still have a regular<b> red squirrel</b>, and, =
happily, no recent sightings of our 2 <b>Norway =
rats.</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; =
margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal =
16px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 19px; "><b></b><br></div><div =
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16.0px Helvetica">Speaking of squirrels, recently Brenda Thexton in east =
Wolfville rep