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Index of Subjects --=_09479cf091fc46097bd21b3d8d612d38 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 It's the same here in Rich. Co. Juncos everywhere along back roads and here at our feeders. As Eric said, they only just arrived after the first bout of freezing rain. Billy On 20 Jan 2018 17:12, Eric Mills wrote: > Today, January 20, my son Chris and I drove from Brier Island to the Bridgewater area and to my home in Lower Rose Bay, Lunenburg Co., Our route was along Hwy 217 on Long Island and Digby Neck, along 101 to the Bear River turnoff, then across country via Bear River and the Virginia East Road to Hwy 8, thence south to South Brookfield and Hwy 208, then W to Hwy 325 and south to Bridgewater and beyond - very roughly 220 km in total. > > There were Juncos along the whole route, going up from the roadsides in groups of 2-3 to more than 100 at a time. Our total was many hundreds, and likely in the thousands. I have seen numbers like these along that route in October, but January is most unusual. > > Circumstantial evidence for sure, but I have no doubt that these birds are new arrivals in the province, probably related to stormy weather during the past few days in New Brunswick. Our feeders in Lower Rose Bay seemed to attract high numbers starting about the 16th or 17th, coinciding with the last snowfalls. > > Eric L. Mills > > Lower Rose Bay > > Lunenburg Co., NS --=_09479cf091fc46097bd21b3d8d612d38 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"> <html><body> <p>It's the same here in Rich. Co. Juncos everywhere along back = roads and here at our feeders. As Eric said, they only just arrived a= fter the first bout of freezing rain.</p> <p>Billy</p> <p>On 20 Jan 2018 17:12, Eric Mills wrote:</p> <blockquote type=3D"cite" style=3D"padding-left:5px; border-left:#1010ff 2p= x solid; margin-left:5px; width:100%"><!-- html ignored --><!-- head ignore= d --><!-- meta ignored --> <div id=3D"divtagdefaultwrapper" style=3D"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; = font-family: Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;" dir=3D"ltr"> <p style=3D"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Today, January 20, my son Chr= is and I drove from Brier Island to the Bridgewater area and to my home in = Lower Rose Bay, Lunenburg Co., Our route was along Hwy 217 on Long Island a= nd Digby Neck, along 101 to the Bear River turnoff, then across country via= Bear River and the Virginia East Road to Hwy 8, thence south to South Broo= kfield and Hwy 208, then W to Hwy 325 and south to Bridgewater and beyond -= very roughly 220 km in total.</p> <p style=3D"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> </p> <p style=3D"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">There were Juncos along the w= hole route, going up from the roadsides in groups of 2-3 to more than 100 a= t a time. Our total was many hundreds, and likely in the thousands. I have = seen numbers like these along that route in October, but January is most un= usual.</p> <p style=3D"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> </p> <p style=3D"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Circumstantial evidence for s= ure, but I have no doubt that these birds are new arrivals in the province,= probably related to stormy weather during the past few days in New Brunswi= ck. Our feeders in Lower Rose Bay seemed to attract high numbers starting a= bout the 16th or 17th, coinciding with the last snowfalls.</p> <p style=3D"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> </p> <p style=3D"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Eric L. Mills</p> <p style=3D"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Lower Rose Bay</p> <p style=3D"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Lunenburg Co., NS</p> <p style=3D"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"> </p> </div> </blockquote> <p> </p> <div> </div> </body></html> --=_09479cf091fc46097bd21b3d8d612d38--
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