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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">March 15, 2009 10:06:29 PM ADT</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: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>Re: [NatureNS] Vocal Song Sparrows and other comments</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>I have been stuck at home over the weekend because of a health issue (now improving), so I couldn't take advantage of the good weather - but in our own back yard we have had singing N.Cardinals, N.Flickers, Mourning Doves, Black-capped Chickadees, as well as the sparrows I mentioned the other day, + "our" Bald Eagle is now coming daily to pick up reeds and sticks from our marsh, presumably for nesting material - althouth I haven't discovered where it goes with it yet.<br> <br>Richard<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 9:47 PM, James Hirtle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jrhbirder@hotmail.com">jrhbirder@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div> This morning in Lunenburg with a stroll over a .5 km distance, I heard at least nine song sparrows vocalizing. Mourning doves have been cooing also over the past few weeks.<br> <br> Nothing special in the bird world to report, other than three dead ducks at Second Peninsula, They were just as you turn off the Mahone Bay road closest to Lunenburg. There were two mallards and a black duck. I thought a mink or something of the sort had been the culprit, but spoke to someone else shortly after, while Pat and I were doing her Beach Bird Survey on Bachman's Beach and that person had seen a young fellow with a gun near the area of the dead ducks. Therefore, in all likelihood the ducks were shot and left. What a waste indeed.<br> <br> James R. Hirtle<br> East LaHave<br><br><hr>Tell the whole story with photos, right from your Messenger window. <a href="http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9650732" target="_blank">Learn how!</a></div> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <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>