Been slow lately but the feeders are always active with the fresh snow. I had a barred owl sitting on the barn this morning just as the sun was coming up(I...
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NS-RBA@yahoogroups.com
Feb 1, 2012 9:25 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the NS-RBA group. File : /Pine warbler...
This pine warbler was at my feeder yesterday, the first I've seen here in any season. It was with a few goldfinches. No sign of it in today's miserable...
General consensus is that we have one pine warbler here in Brookfield. Feeding with the gold finches, tree sparrows, chick a dee's the first I have seen...
John, Nhung, et al.: This is a very interesting observation. All the confirmed juncos with white wing bars hitherto in NS have been aberrant "Slate-colored"...
The Eastern Towhee is still hanging around the tangled yard at the far end of Birch Cove Park. She was joined today by a Fox Sparrow, two Cardinals, half a...
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Jeffrey Ogden
OGDENJB@...
Feb 5, 2012 1:26 am
Spotted a Lesser BB Gull at Kiwansis Pond in Truro today (picts at my pbase site if interested: http://www.pbase.com/jogden/winter_2011-12)....this bird had...
Hi, 4 Pine siskins at our feeders this morning. A M. N. harrier at grand Pre. 25+ Bohemian waxwings at Grand Pre. Richard Stern sternrichard@... Sent...
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Andrew Horn
aghorn@...
Feb 7, 2012 12:50 pm
Hi all, This morning a male Red-bellied Woodpecker was in the area bounded by Birch Road and Hemlock, Fir, and Maple Walk, where I'd seen one regularly last...
We were surprised this morning to have a Hermit Thrush in our back yard garden. This bird is by no means the hardiest of our thrushes but its over-wintering...
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Andrew Horn
aghorn@...
Feb 7, 2012 7:26 pm
Hi all, A nice big adult Glaucous Gull was on the big rock at Black Rock Beach, Pt Pleasant Park, this afternoon. (Speaking of photo ops, there were also two...
Have been visiting daily and 3 times a week, placing food for the Common Gallinule currently present at Red Bridge Pond here in Dartmouth. It appears (by its...
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Ronnie D'Entremont
rondentremont@...
Feb 9, 2012 4:58 pm
Sharron"s sharp eye strikes again. She texted me of the sighting and, during my lunch break, I investigated. It is a beautiful mature bird with all the...
I parked at the west end of Long Island Road, North Grand Pre and walked the main dyke towards Wolfville. Something like 25-30% of the way to Wolfville, you...
I'll be coming home for a few weeks this month. Likely the last week of February and the first week of March. Where are some good birding spots in February? ...
Hi, This morning started off well with a Gt.Horned Owl calling from somewhere behind the house in the early hours. Once it got light enough to see silhouettes,...
 The grebe was still in the Mineville river Wednesday. I also noticed there was no Ipswich Sparrows on the winter list this year. There was still 2 at Grande...
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clyde stoddart
clydebstoddart@...
Feb 11, 2012 4:38 pm
9 feb, 2011 at norht east point yellow bellied sapsucker clyde stoddart...
11 Feb 2012 Hi All, I just returned from the sewer ponds in Port Williams. As I was walking out to the ponds Stan Hancock, the utilities supervisor was on his...
12 Feb 2012 Bev and George Crowell found a Tufted Duck in Glace Bay Harbour today. It was in a flock of Greater Scaup. ======================= Forwarded by: --...
Just a quick update to say that both the Common Gallinule & the Am. Coot made it through the torrential rains & then freezing rain and frigid conditions this...
13 February I have a Varied Thrush in my back yard!! I thought it might be so called in a friend with birding binoculars and a camera. It is a lovely male....
 The Meadowlark is still present at Conrads beach in the grass behind the west side of the beach. I'm assuming it's the same Meadowlark from December.  ...
Hi All, A couple of Common Redpolls joined the regular flock of American Goldfinch at my feeders yesterday. It's the first redpolls I've seen here this winter....
A Glaucous Gull was present at Sullivan's Pond this afternoon. Also present were two Common Mergansers, 4 Eurasian Wigeon and an Iceland Gull. Many Robins were...
There's a male Northern Pintail x Mallard Hybrid hanging around Blackrock beach with a flock of Black and Mallard ducks at Point Pleasant Park. There's also a...
All: I have uploaded photos taken today by Dorothy Poole of the VARIED THRUSH and YELLOW-BELLIED S APSUCKER frequenting Marg Millard's property in White Point,...
