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Re your enquiry about tree creepers, I usually have at least one around
every winter, but this year have had two for the past couple of months
busy going up and down the trunk of the tree where I hang my feeders.
Other current 'regulars' are the usual gold and purple finches, hairy
and downy woodpeckers,chickadees. nuthatches, bluejays, mourning doves
and occasional pheasants,(plus one redwing blackbird 17th Dec followed
by a brief visit from a large flock of bohemian waxwings on 31st
December). Also one sharp-shinned hawk attack 2nd Feb (bluejay fatality).
Eleanor Lindsay
Seabright St Margarets Bay
Donna Crossland wrote:
> Take it easy on the shovelling, Paul. The snow that is piled up over the bases of my windows in the valley is about as high as I have ever seen it since we’ve been living here.
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> I think some people get brown creepers at their feeders. (Maybe someone will tell me.) I am missing that species here. There is nothing like the male’s sudden cheerful-sounding song in a spruce-hemlock stand in early spring. Maybe if we can allow more forest to grow near the house, we’ll get some. It’s still pretty open around here, and I am sure the sapsucker would like for us to recreate the woodland that would have been here some 400 years ago. We’ve added a pond last year so that should help the tree swallows in their nest boxes this year. You can keep your black ducks though, at least for now.
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> There seem to be an ever-growing number of goldfinches. Maybe that’s because we are growing more shrubbery than trees in NS? The evening grosbeaks are here and gone each day. No red polls this year.
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> The suet mixed with black oil sunflwr seed is in high demand today. The sapsucker fed early and left. I don’t think he liked like spending time with some 20 twittering goldfinches, several purple finches, and even a couple of blackbirds (females).
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> Must run and listen to the Stewart McLean special on CBC. We lost another good one.
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> Donna
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> From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] On Behalf Of rita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca
> Sent: February-16-17 9:06 AM
> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] still supplementing the Sapsucker
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> Interesting Donna - we have about the same mix minus the Sapsucker!
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> White Breasted Nuthatchs nd Brown Creepers are common in the treesback in Marc
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> but I never see them at the feeders. Must get insects of the trees.
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> We always fed a flock of ducks in the yard. Mallards mostly with some Blacks
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> and a few others. Sometimes up to 50 but this year none. Someone else must
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> be putting out better meals. They were here until the end of November then disappeared.
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> I used to feed cracked corn but maybe they will come back in March.
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> There was a good number of Blacks along Western Shore yesterday - maybe 200
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> never all Blacks with only a few Mallards. I'll go count them when theres no snow to shovel!
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> Its a year for Goldfinches. Seems to be more plentiful than
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> other years - a dozen or so Purple Finch today.
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> Well the snow will give us something to do for a few more days.
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> Enjoy the shoveling! Its a good time to watch for birds!
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> Paul
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> On February 13, 2017 at 9:34 PM Donna Crossland <dcrossland@eastlink.ca> wrote:
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> Our yellow-bellied sapsucker is still coming to our suet feeder when he has to. When the temperature drops, he comes back. His deep red throat and cap are gorgeous. His yellowy breast feathers seem to blow in the wind far more than those of the downy and hairy. I have the impression that he is not as well insulated. So far, despite the blizzard, temperatures have not been too bad this winter so my impression is that he’ll make it though.
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> I’d place my bets on the sapsucker over that poor little indigo bunting.
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> Lots of ‘feeder frenzy’ went on today, but nothing out of the ordinary. Two pairs of cardinals, lots of goldfinches (more than I’d prefer), some evening grosbeaks, one male pheasant, chickadees, one white-breasted nuthatch, slate-coloured juncos, a few purple finches (noted only one male and two female), and a few American tree sparrows.
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<p><font size="+1">Re your enquiry about tree creepers, I usually
have at least one around every winter, but this year have had
two for the past couple of months busy going up and down the
trunk of the tree where I hang my feeders. Other current
'regulars' are the usual gold and purp</font>le finches, hairy
and downy woodpeckers,chickadees. nuthatches, bluejays, mourning
doves and occasional pheasants,(plus one redwing blackbird 17th
Dec followed by a brief visit from a large flock of bohemian
waxwings on 31st December). Also one sharp-shinned hawk attack 2nd
Feb (bluejay fatality).</p>
<p>Eleanor Lindsay</p>
<p>Seabright St Margarets Bay</p>
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<p>Donna Crossland wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Take it easy on the shovelling, Paul. The snow that is piled up over the bases of my windows in the valley is about as high as I have ever seen it since we’ve been living here.
I think some people get brown creepers at their feeders. (Maybe someone will tell me.) I am missing that species here. There is nothing like the male’s sudden cheerful-sounding song in a spruce-hemlock stand in early spring. Maybe if we can allow more forest to grow near the house, we’ll get some. It’s still pretty open around here, and I am sure the sapsucker would like for us to recreate the woodland that would have been here some 400 years ago. We’ve added a pond last year so that should help the tree swallows in their nest boxes this year. You can keep your black ducks though, at least for now.
There seem to be an ever-growing number of goldfinches. Maybe that’s because we are growing more shrubbery than trees in NS? The evening grosbeaks are here and gone each day. No red polls this year.
The suet mixed with black oil sunflwr seed is in high demand today. The