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Re: earlybird birds
- To: Carolinabirds@duke.edu
- Subject: Re: earlybird birds
- From: "Rob G." <thrush@hotmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 22:23:50 +0000
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
W. Cook wrote:
> I've been hearing reports of cone crop
>failures up north this year, so we could be in for a winter finch
>invasion.
Jonathan Steere, in N. Durham reported to me seeing Wh-Thrtd.Sparrows in his
yard this past weekend, RC Kinglets the week before, and RB Nuthatches the
week before that -- he too speculated that food shortages up north from a
dry summer were driving birds south early and to anticipate a good birding
winter.
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**Rob Gluck
Chapel Hill
thrush@hotmail.com
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