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Thanks, Jon, from Jim et al.<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">Jon Percy <<a href="mailto:jon-percy@ns.sympatico.ca">jon-percy@ns.sympatico.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>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">April 28, 2009 9:27:03 AM 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">"James W. Wolford" <<a href="mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.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: Indigo buntings!</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hi Jim;</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Andy dean and his wife showed up this morning at about 8:30 a.m........ and fortunately three of the buntings showed up. He managed to snap some much better pictures than mine. Unfortunately they missed the red bellied woodpecker that had been hammering away at the fat feeder just 10 or 15 minutes earlier.</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Glad to hear that you are now a bona fide member of the gray squirrel fan club!!! Our gray squirrel (seems to be only one around at the moment) shows up occasionally at the feeder....but In have chased him off so often that he is pretty skittish...I just have to open the door now and he's off like a rocket and doesn't usually come back for the rest of the day.</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Cheers</font></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2">Jon</font></div><blockquote dir="ltr" style="padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; margin-right: 0px; "><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; ">----- Original Message -----</div><div style="background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; background-position: initial initial; "><b>From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="jimwolford@eastlink.ca" href="mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">James W. Wolford</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a title="jon-percy@ns.sympatico.ca" href="mailto:jon-percy@ns.sympatico.ca">Jon Percy</a></div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Monday, April 27, 2009 5:45 PM</div><div style="font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Indigo buntings!</div><div><br></div>Jon, I agree with Marg's "WOW!" Great Photo! <div><br></div><div>Did you also read that now I have finally seen a GRAY SQUIRREL in Nova Scotia (on the Sunday field trip)? Now I feel like a complete wildlife biologist! Cheers from Jim<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" color="#000000" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Jon Percy <<a href="mailto:jon-percy@ns.sympatico.ca">jon-percy@ns.sympatico.ca</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" color="#000000" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">April 27, 2009 8:08:23 AM ADT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" color="#000000" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 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" color="#000000" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b>Re: [NatureNS] Indigo buntings!</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" color="#000000" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Reply-To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; "><a href="mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font></div><div style="min-height: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The four originals have been joined by another male! I couldn't believe my eyes when I looked out the window at about 7:45 this morning (Monday). A few minutes earlier I spotted two on the ground near the feeder. Next time I checked there were five ... no possibility of confusion...they were all on the ground within a three foot circle!!! along with a couple of whitethroats. I thought these guys were supposed to be migrating through?????</div><div style="min-height: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Jon Percy</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Granville Ferry, NS</div><div style="min-height: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">----- Original Message ----- From: "Margaret E.Millard" <<a href="mailto:mmillard@eastlink.ca">mmillard@eastlink.ca</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">To: <<a href="mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Sent: Monday, April 27, 2009 7:26 AM</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Indigo buntings!</div><div style="min-height: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="min-height: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">wow!</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Marg Millard in White Point</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://margmillard.ca">http://margmillard.ca</a></div></blockquote></blockquote><div><br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Percy" <<a href="mailto:jon-percy@ns.sympatico.ca">jon-percy@ns.sympatico.ca</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">To: "Naturens" <<a href="mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 8:00 PM</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject: [NatureNS] Indigo buntings!</div><div style="min-height: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="min-height: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The four male indigo buntings are still hanging around the feeder here in Granville Ferry (they seem to be keen on something in the Valley Blend birdseed mix!). This morning I finally managed to get a picture of all four in the same frame..... the male and female cardinal were an added bonus!!!! I have posted the picture at:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.bofep.org/photos.htm">http://www.bofep.org/photos.htm</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>. It's pretty blurry shot because it's taken hand held at high digital zoom, but at least the birds are distinguishable. It's been a real spring treat to have them around.</div><div style="min-height: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Jon Percy</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Granville Ferry</div></blockquote><div style="min-height: 14px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></blockquote></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br></body></html>