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<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Richard Stern <<a href="mailto:sternrichard@gmail.com">sternrichard@gmail.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">February 7, 2009 7:05:33 PM AST</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:iamclar@dal.ca">iamclar@dal.ca</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Cc: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:ns-rba@yahoogroups.com">ns-rba@yahoogroups.com</a>, <a href="mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[NatureNS] Re: [NS-RBA] Gone goose (?) and status of House Finch</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> Hi,<br><br>House Finches haven't been seen in Kings Co. for some time now, but Bernard Forsythe saw a F. with some Juncos in Wolfville yesterday.<br><br>Richard<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 6:49 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:iamclar@dal.ca">iamclar@dal.ca</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="width: 655px;"><div style="margin: 0pt; padding: 0pt 25px 0pt 0pt; width: 470px; float: left;"><div><p> Benice had four fem. and four male House Finches in our W. end Halifax yard<br> yesterday, 6 February. It would be good to have some systematic reports of<br> these from around the province for the winter-season issue of "NS Birds," The<br> Christmas Counts may give some impression of trends since eye disease and other<br> ills have struck Purple and House Finch in the last few years. My impression is<br> that they are/were down in Metro Halifax.<br> <br> Cheesr, Ian McLaren<br></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br>#################<br>Richard Stern, <br>317 Middle Dyke Rd.<br>Port Williams, NS, Canada<br>B0P 1T0<br><br><a href="mailto:sternrichard@gmail.com">sternrichard@gmail.com</a><br> ###################<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>