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Index of Subjects And today the Dark-eyed Juncos are singing for the first time here as well. Their Spring song is more up-and-down than later in the year. Nancy E Dalhousie, Kings Co. Sent from my iPad > On Mar 8, 2018, at 7:43 AM, John and Nhung <nhungjohn@eastlink.ca> wrote: > > Song sparrows started singing about a week ago and Mr. Cardinal a couple of > days ago, down here in God's country! > > -----Original Message----- > From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] > On Behalf Of NancyDowd > Sent: March 8, 2018 4:26 AM > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: [NatureNS] Purple Finch and RT Hawk > > Yesterday many Purple Finch in nearby mixed woods were in full cheery song. > Very nice to hear their bubbly tunes. There was a Starling like down slur at > the end of many songs which I had not heard PF do before. It can be seen in > the following spectrogram as a downward slanting line in the spectrogram > below. > eBird list with song https://ebird.org/canada/view/checklist/S43462330 > or MacCauley (the one at top left) > https://search.macaulaylibrary.org/catalog?mediaType=a&q=purple%20finch > > Also along the way we heard the Red-tailed Hawk scream ahead of us on the > road. It then flew criss-crossing overhead a few times before circling into > the distant trees. To me this suggested it might have a nest nearby (too > early?) and perceived us as a possible threat. The scream gets heard a lot > but this time it seemed to have a meaning. > > Nancy > E Dalhousie, Kings Co >
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