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Normally, we tend to see
bobcats roaming during the day when their breeding season starts, but
November/December is early for that.
**Bohemian waxwings are
always welcome winter visitors.
Aldo Dorio watched a flock
of Bohemian waxwings demolishing the fruit of the winterberry holly
shrub at Hay Island on Wednesday. An American robin waited patiently for its turn
but I suspect that many waxwings possibly did a clean sweep of the berry crop on the bush!
**Jane LeBlanc in St.
Martins had a surprise white-throated sparrow in her yard before
the snow arrived. Also, several dark-eyed juncos and a male purple
finch dropped by.
Her neighbour on Main
Street called to say he had a male eastern towhee, so Jane went down and
got photos of it, as well as a fleeting look at his semi-resident red-bellied
woodpecker.
**Lantz Harris was
wondering why it was so quiet at his feeders until he spotted a merlin perched right on his porch railing for about a half hour.
Lance comments that he is getting lots of hairy
woodpeckers and a male pileated woodpecker. The pileated woodpecker seems to
know when Lantz puts out the bird pies and destroys them in no time. The pileated woodpecker battled a blue jay recently, and one
powerful blow sent the jay to the ground for a while.
Nelson
Poirier
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