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RE: earlybird birds
- To: "'Carolina Birds'" <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
- Subject: RE: earlybird birds
- From: Jack McLain <jmclain1@gte.net>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:14:04 -0400
- In-Reply-To: <01C15187.9D671D60@billwarf>
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
I had a WT sparrow, YB sapsuckers (several imm and adults) and three brown
headed nuthatches in my yard last Saturday afternoon.
Jack McLain
Durham, NC
At 12:01 PM 10/10/2001 -0400, William J. Warfel wrote:
>On Sunday afternoon I watched one White-throated Sparrow cleaning up after
>the Cardinals under my sunflower seed feeder. This is was earliest I've
>seen them at my home.
>William J. Warfel
>Fayetteville
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rob G. [SMTP:thrush@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 6:24 PM
>To: Carolinabirds@duke.edu
>Subject: Re: earlybird birds
>
>
>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.
>
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>**Rob Gluck
>Chapel Hill
>thrush@hotmail.com
>^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>
>
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