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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Yes Any they do pick at road salt with deadly consequences.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">On PEI when we were young we had flocks of Hungarian Partridge.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The only snow plow was the one in the sky! My Parents always fed the Huns.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Weed seeds was plentiful. Growing a lot of grain, not spraying for weeds and<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">cutting with a binder all helped the weeds. The threshing machine seperated</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the weed seed and it would be saved for the Huns or other birds. Grit<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">was always provided to them also.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the 50s they </span>
<span style="font-size: 12pt;">started district schools with Buses, plows and sand with salt.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Well the Huns thought the sand wonderful but they couldn't survive the salt.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">That along with Sodium Arsenic wiped out the flocks. <br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">They came conquered and left!<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Enjoy the winter<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Paul<br/></span>
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On January 19, 2018 at 8:38 AM Andrew Stadnyk <Andrew.Stadnyk@Dal.Ca> wrote:
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Doves and Jays peck at the sand between our flagstones in our patio. Blue Jays forge in the eavestrough, maybe for grit? So I visited a local chicken farmer and bought a bag of grit only to hear from the owner that they don't actually use it. <span>Now I have a 5kg bag of grit, gads.</span> Nevertheless, I periodically sprinkle the grit in the yard, around my feeders in the hope that it helps. I will put some on the feeder in the winter. (I wonder if the birds mistake road salt for grit in these conditions?)</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Andy Stadnyk</p>
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<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><strong>From:</strong> naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca <naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca> on behalf of Fred Schueler <bckcdb@istar.ca><br/> <strong>Sent:</strong> January 18, 2018 11:19 PM<br/> <strong>To:</strong> naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<br/> <strong>Subject:</strong> Re: [NatureNS] Junco question</span>
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On 1/18/2018 10:05 PM, Lois Codling wrote:
<br/> > Since they lack teeth, I believe all birds need grit to grind up or
<br/> > predigest their food.  Perhaps there are some exceptions?
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<br/> * there may also be seeds in the exposed roadside gravel.
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<br/> > On 1/18/2018 7:24 PM, nancy dowd wrote:
<br/> >> After the plow went by on our gravel road today we noticed small
<br/> >> flocks of Juncos in the nearby trees flying down onto the areas where
<br/> >> the gravel was exposed and picking at it. I came across this several
<br/> >> times along the way. Like Doves, do Juncos and other Sparrows like
<br/> >> some grit in their diet?
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<br/> >> Nancy
<br/> >> E Dalhousie, Kings Co.
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