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| 28.10.2013, 20:19 - fenpxsli - Pfeifenkopp - 205 Posts Mama bears and cubs are springing back again The recently born, highly vulnerable little cubs, though, are barely prepared to leave their dens and follow mom. They been nursing on their own groggy mothers all winter and therefore are more cuddly than frisky. Most bear mothers wintered with their babies under fallen logs and brush piles. They need surprisingly little overhead protection. They always seem to choose a spot, though, which has a big tree nearby, like a hickory, that simple for their cubs to climb in desperate situations. Worcester County should get ready for additional bears. They displaying an incredible capability to survive in small pockets of very thick vegetation sometimes within an area no larger than a few acres sleeping all day long there, moving about largely unnoticed at night, searching for bird seed, commercial dog food and garbage. They early birds Redwinged blackbirds and woodcock happen to be present a full month in front of normal. The way the woodcock found worms after the snowstorm is amazing. They'd to probe for them in seeps and other softsoil wet areas. We already hearing their enchanting evening mating song and flight music. I can remember any year they arrived earlier. Christmas Bird Count totals Before turning our attention to phoebes, palm warblers along with other earlyspring migrants, we are able to analyze wintering species tallied on the local Christmas Bird Count by birders Bart Kamp, Donna Schilling, Paul Meleski, Peter Morlock, Don Holm,doudoune canada goose, Jean Holm, Mark Lynch, Sheila Carroll, Laura Lane, Bruce DeGraaf, Barry Van Dusen, Mike Makynen, Dave Grant, John Liller (compiler), Kim Kastler, Alan Marble, Joan Gallagher, John Shea, Nickilas Paulson, Ken Paulson, Kevin Bouriniot, Lisa Hennin,parajumpers jakke salg, Rodney Jenkins and Chuck Caron. With much open water,canada goose online buy, waterfowl were plentiful: greater whitefronted goose, 1; pinkfooted goose, 1 (new species for the count); snow goose, 1; Canada goose, 2,440; mute swan, 14; wood duck CW (seen during count week but not on count day); gadwall cw; American wigeon, 1; American black duck, 55; mallard, 786; northern pintail, 1; greenwinged teal, 9; ringnecked duck, 28; greater scaup, 58; lesser scaup, 12 (new high); whitewinged scoter, 1; bufflehead, 10; common goldeneye, 106; Barrow goldeneye, 1; hooded merganser, 355 (new high); common merganser, 96; American coot, 2; wild turkey, 226 (new high); common loon, 9; horned grebe, 4. The existence of fishdependent waders was reflective of our open water, too: great blue heron, 12. Raptors: bald eagle, 1; sharpshinned hawk, 1; Cooper hawk, 3; northern goshawk, 1; redtailed hawk, 47; roughlegged hawk (remarkable), 1; merlin, 1; peregrine falcon, 1. Gulls have proven very adaptable to human presence, responding to the supply of food: ringbilled gull, 1,773 (this species has become our McDonald lot gull herring gull, 173; great blackbacked gull, 7. Rock pigeon (they actually did nest on rocky cliffs in Europe before domesticated ones were brought here; city buildings and bridges serve them equally well), 505; mourning dove, 271. Eastern screech owl, 9; great horned owl, 17 (new high; since they mate in December, hearing them call facilitates identifying their presence); barred owl, 2; northern sawwhet owl, 2 (2011 was a inadequate year for his or her migration here; neither my birdbanding researchers in the Auburn Sportsman Club nor Strickland Wheelock Uxbridge team captured anywhere near normal numbers). Belted kingfisher, 7; redbellied woodpecker, 20; yellowbellied sapsucker, 1; downy woodpecker, 147; hairy woodpecker, 36; pileated woodpecker, 2. Eastern phoebe, 1 (new for count); blue jay, 115; American crow, 931; common raven, 5; horned lark, 39; blackcapped chickadee, 822; tufted titmouse, 283; redbreasted nuthatch,canada goose sale, 2; whitebreasted nuthatch, 184; brown creeper, 7; Carolina wren, 13; winter wren, 7 (new high); goldencrowned kinglet, 12; eastern bluebird, 87 (new high; this species, along with robins, can stay all year long if there food available; many have them around feeding considerable amounts of meal worms on exposed platforms); hermit thrush, 2; American robin, 452; gray catbird, 1; northern mockingbird, 26; European starling, 1,619; cedar waxwing, 96; eastern towhee, 1; American tree sparrow, 45; chipping sparrow, 1; field sparrow, 1; song sparrow, 69; swamp sparrow, 3; whitethroated sparrow, 100; darkeyed junco, 743; snow bunting, 1; northern cardinal, 164; eastern meadowlark, 1; rusty blackbird, 4; purple finch, 3; house finch, 259; pine siskin, 2; American goldfinch, 513; house sparrow, 887. |