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Subject: Sunday birding
From: BoB LeSuer <rlesuer(AT)zoo.uvm.edu>
Date: 28 Jan 2002 8:03am
In a brief getaway from schoolwork, my wife and I strolled the sandbar:
Very unsatisfactory but positive ID of two bald eagles (finally) one
mature and one immature
small flock of common redpolls
the snowy owl
common pintails
mallards
american black ducks
lots of black dots, some with light spots (grumble, I need a raise)
BoB
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Subject: Re: Bird fluctuation and smelly houses
From: Catwolf(AT)aol.com
Date: 28 Jan 2002 8:47am
Clean the inside of house with 1 part bleach to 9 parts water, dry. I have
put a light coat of soap on inside top of house. The birds cannot smell the
soap but mice, wasps can, keeping them out.. I have been assured by many
people that the soap does not hurt nestlings. In fact, I have had many broods
fledge from my houses. Mary in Williston
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Subject: Re: Feeder Birds
From: "Holly Hungerford" <hhungerford(AT)vpt.org>
Date: 28 Jan 2002 9:43am
Seems I'm one of the lucky ones this year, too. At our Charlotte home
we've recently had a larger number of birds than usual. Lots of
goldfinches and house finches along with the occasional purple finches.
What seems like a small-ish number of chickadees, although we never have
that many, redpolls in increasing numbers, w-b nuthatches (2 or 3), hairy
and downy woodpeckers occasionally, plenty of blue jays and mourning doves
and a pair of cardinals. At times over the past week or two, I've counted
in excess of 30 birds in our lilac bush where the feeders hang. I wish
you all the same joy.
Holly F. Hungerford
Vt. Public Television
88 Ethan Allen Ave.
Colchester, VT 05446
(802) 655-8049
hhungerford(AT)vpt.org
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Subject: robins, anyone?
From: Betty Gilbert <egilbert(AT)sover.net>
Date: 28 Jan 2002 9:50am
Good morning,
A trip into the Champlain valley Sunday (1/27) yielded an amazing 150 or
so robins in an apple orchard in Shoreham.
Cheers, B-
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Subject: Re: Feeder birds
From: JJApple(AT)aol.com
Date: 28 Jan 2002 10:49am
In a message dated 1/27/02 11:08:34 PM Eastern Standard Time,
vtbird(AT)raven.csc.vsc.edu writes:
<< Last week in Barre, I did see something unusual, at least for me! A big
flock
(est. 40-50 birds) of a bird I'd never seen before. Large, grosbeak size,
grosbeak-type bill, brown with rosy head and top of tail, flying from berry
tree to berry tree eating the brown dried flowers on each one. When I got
home I checked the Audubon book but no cigar. None of them really looked
like
those birds! They definitely weren't waxwings of either type. Any ideas?
Thanks! Ellen in Montpelier >>
Ellen,
They sound like Pine Grosbeaks to me.
Jeffrey J. Allen
Montpelier, Vermont
JJApple(AT)aol.com
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Subject: feeder birds
From: Jean Arrowsmith <jeanbird(AT)w3az.net>
Date: 28 Jan 2002 6:10pm
As I was reading the accounts of feeder species in VT just now, I hoped that
you all are submitting your records to Project FeederWatch at Cornell. That
way the records will be in the North American data base and changes over
time can be documented. http://bird.cornell.edu/pfw is one way to get to
the site.
Today is a count day for me here in Arizona. So far,9 Gambel's Quail have
bobbed those amazing topnots as they drank from the birdbath. One
Yellow-rumped Warber has bathed as well as an Abert's Towhee, and a
Black-throated Sparrow ate a bit. These are the less usual visitors....
See you in the spring, when all the male chickadees are singing that bright
call.
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Subject: Re: feeder birds
From: "Jim Dam" <jdam(AT)together.net>
Date: 28 Jan 2002 6:25pm
Correct address is: http://birds.cornell.edu/pfw/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean Arrowsmith" <jeanbird(AT)w3az.net>
To: <vtbird(AT)raven.csc.vsc.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 5:58 PM
Subject: feeder birds
> As I was reading the accounts of feeder species in VT just now, I hoped
that
> you all are submitting your records to Project FeederWatch at Cornell.
That
> way the records will be in the North American data base and changes over
> time can be documented. http://bird.cornell.edu/pfw is one way to get to
> the site.
>
> Today is a count day for me here in Arizona. So far,9 Gambel's Quail have
> bobbed those amazing topnots as they drank from the birdbath. One
> Yellow-rumped Warber has bathed as well as an Abert's Towhee, and a
> Black-throated Sparrow ate a bit. These are the less usual visitors....
>
> See you in the spring, when all the male chickadees are singing that
bright
> call.
>
>
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Subject: RE: Bird fluctuation and smelly houses
From: "Dayle Ann" <dayleann(AT)frodo.com>
Date: 28 Jan 2002 6:43pm
Merrie Perron wrote:
>....I wanted to put out a few
> (bluebird) houses in hopes of luring them in. When I went to
> the barn to check them out, I remembered that last year I had
> mice in some of them. Needless to say they smell of mice urine.
> I had tried to use a mixture of bleach and water to clean them
> out, but they still smell. Will the Bluebirds still use them if
> they have that odor to them? Does anyone have any other ideas on
> how to get the smell out????
Merrie, you might try this: go to a pet supply store and get a bottle of
the stuff used to get the smell of pet "mistakes" out of carpets, etc. It
really works and doesn't leave an odor of its own behind. Soak the wood
down good and let it set-- it is supposed to be completely nontoxic, as it
is a natural enzyme and biodegrades. It sometimes takes more than one
application, but I've used it for mouse urine, and even successfully removed
cat urine smell from fireplace brick this way (ick).
Good luck.
Dayle Ann
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Subject: NYTimes.com Article: Developing an Ear for Nature's Untuned
Orchestra
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Date: 28 Jan 2002 7:50pm
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Subject: Re: Bird fluctuation and smelly houses
From: "Bob Crowley" <crbob(AT)nh.adelphia.net>
Date: 28 Jan 2002 8:52pm
Do birds smell? Just wondering.
Bob Crowley
Chatham, NH
----- Original Message -----
From: Dayle Ann <dayleann(AT)frodo.com>
To: <vtbird(AT)raven.csc.vsc.edu>
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 5:27 PM
Subject: RE: Bird fluctuation and smelly houses
> Merrie Perron wrote:
>
> >....I wanted to put out a few
> > (bluebird) houses in hopes of luring them in. When I went to
> > the barn to check them out, I remembered that last year I had
> > mice in some of them. Needless to say they smell of mice urine.
> > I had tried to use a mixture of bleach and water to clean them
> > out, but they still smell. Will the Bluebirds still use them if
> > they have that odor to them? Does anyone have any other ideas on
> > how to get the smell out????
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Subject: Re: Bird fluctuation and smelly houses
From: "Angele Brill" <Angele.Brill(AT)castleton.edu>
Date: 28 Jan 2002 9:35pm
This month's Birder's World had an article on just that subject.
While the article didn't deal much with passerine's, it covered
vultures, some pelagics, and I think some others. It seems that some
birds can smell, and some very well. Who knows what they'll find
about songbirds as they keep researching.
Angele Brill
Poultney, VT
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Subject: RE: Bird fluctuation and smelly houses
From: "Lawrence, Miriam" <mlawrence(AT)horsesmouth.com>
Date: 28 Jan 2002 10:32pm
My understanding (from a background in animal rehabilitation) is that with
the exception of those mentioned in Angele's message, birds do not have much
sense of smell at all. (Makes sense that vultures would, since they eat
carrion and have to find it -- and maybe pelagics need it to locate fish?)
Rehabilitators go out of their way to mention the general absence of sense
of smell because they want to debunk the old myth that you can't put baby
birds that have fallen out back in the nest (supposedly because the parents
will smell you on the babies and abandon the nest). In fact, putting babies
back in their nests is absolutely the best thing to do if at all possible.
Miriam Lawrence
Monkton Ridge, VT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Angele Brill [mailto:Angele.Brill(AT)castleton.edu]
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2002 8:25 PM
> To: vtbird(AT)raven.csc.vsc.edu
> Subject: Re: Bird fluctuation and smelly houses
>
>
> This month's Birder's World had an article on just that subject.
> While the article didn't deal much with passerine's, it covered
> vultures, some pelagics, and I think some others. It seems that some
> birds can smell, and some very well. Who knows what they'll find
> about songbirds as they keep researching.
>
> Angele Brill
> Poultney, VT
>
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