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Re: gardeners/bird
I'm there with JEMS, my backyard is planted with trees, shrubs, and flowers that provide berries, seeds, protection or nesting sites. I'm also a member of Project Feederwatch Canada (I do a feeder count every week), in the US it's associated with Cornell University. We have the usual blue jays, starlings, crows, chickadees, downy woodpeckers, mourning doves, juncos, and tree sparrows. But we also have Redpolls this year, a Mockingbird, and two Baltimore Orioles. The Orioles are rare for our area but they seem to be moving into Nova Scotia this year as a few other people have them coming to feeders too. We've been feeding them grape jelly, grapes, cherries, and they also like the suet from time to time. I, too, have been adding evergreens to my backyard for the birds!
Nothing is blooming as we're under almost a foot of snow, but my heath was in bloom just before Christmas - hope it survives!
Happy New Year from Nova Scotia
Carol
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From: jo ellen meyers sharp
To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 11:11 AM
Subject: [GWL] gardeners/bird
Absolutely! I feed the birds all year. In summer, I have six water
sources available for the birds and in winter, just one w/an ice
melter device.
Right now, I have juncos red-bellied, downy and hairy woodpeckers; a
wren, maybe a Carolina, but it is very cold here, sometimes they
winter over, I just haven't been able to get a clear look;
goldfinches, purple finches, titmice, chickadees, cardinals and pine
siskins.
My landscape is planted to attract and shelter birds, too, with
native perennials, shrubs or trees with seed heads and berries. I
never really had an appreciation for evergreens until I got
interested in birds. Now, I see evergreens as bird condos, or
certainly heavily used waystations while they wait their turn at the
feeders (suet, saffflower and nyger seed) in winter. I live less than
two blocks from White River, Indiana's non-navigable waterway, so I
get birds that other urban gardeners might not get. I get cooper's
hawks, red tailed hawks, screech and great-horned owls and the
occasional indigo bunting or peregrine falcon from downtown hunting
mouning doves.
jems
>Oxymoron alert: "lovely arctic high?" That ranks (or tanks) with
>'military intelligence', 'jumbo shrimp' and 'drug-free school zone.'
>Today's expected high is mid-20s. Feels colder. Sunny & clear, but
>windy, and no snow cover. The kind of weather that's pretty much
>guaranteed to kill off a lot of stubborn garden greenery.
>BTW, I don't paddle all summer, I paddle all year. I welcomed 2008
>with a jaunt up my river on New Year's day. Bird report: Cedar
>waxwings, downy woodpeckers, a yellow-shafted flicker, black ducks,
>goldfinches, red-tailed hawks, bluejays, a kingbird. No great blue
>herons, for a change, and the only Canada geese were of the plastic
>decoy breed.
>How many on this list are also birdwatchers?
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Douglas Green <dgreen@kos.net>
>To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum
><gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
>Sent: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 9:15 am
>Subject: Re: [GWL] The "Cost" of the matter
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>And we have a beauty here this morning - the air is so cold there's
>mist on the water and it's freezing on our trees. I'm watching the
>main channel freeze over - it's clearly visible as the ice crystallizes.
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>Makes me just want to get out there and paddle around.... or, maybe
>take a trip somewhere warm. I'll get back to you about which one.
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>But in the meantime, there's a lovely arctic high over top of us -
>clear blue skies, nose-freezing temps (0F and dropping) I can only
>send it along in hopes of clearing up some of that political smog.
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>Best
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>Doug
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>Douglas Green
>Online Garden Publishing
>Blog: http://blog.douggreensgarden.com
>Home: http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com
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>On 3-Jan-08, at 9:07 AM, frielster@aol.com wrote:
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>> Doug,
>> our politicians' excess windage is our only defense against those
>> stinkin' Canadian cold fronts you Canucks keep shipping south.
>> Happy sailing.
>> JF
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>> From: Douglas Green <dgreen@kos.net>
>> To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum
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Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp
Garden writer, speaker, author, photographer
Region III Director Garden Writers Association
Phone: (317) 251.3261
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