** Anne Marsch had a second YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER [Paruline à croupion
jaune] come to her suet to her Lower Coverdale yard on Thursday. She also had
an influx of 10 PURPLE FINCH [Roselin pourpré], this time 6 of which were adult
male. On April 10th, Anne had 17 Purple Finch come to her yard, all of which
were female or immature males.
** Janet Cormier got a great portrait of a SAVANNAH SPARROW [Bruant des
prés] visiting her Salisbury Rd. yard on Thursday to remind us of the features
of this sparrow species rejoining us that don't tend to come to feeder yards
that often. Yet it is a very common sparrow in fields and marsh areas.
** The AMERICAN TREE SPARROWS [Bruant hudsonien] do not seem to have made a
move away from my urban yard as yet, the 8 to 10 that over-wintered. They seem
to be starting to feed on peanut butter more frequently and are trying to put
the run to the few CHIPPING SPARROWS [Bruant familier] arriving. They got along
well with a WHITE-THROATED SPARROW [Bruant à gorge blanche] and two SONG
SPARROWS [Bruant chanteur] that stayed the winter with them.
Nelson Poirier,
Nature Moncton
nelson@nb.sympatico.ca
YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLER APRIL 23,2015 ANNE MARSCH.
