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Geauga Juncos
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Carole Babyak <[log in to unmask]>
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[log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 21 Jun 2015 12:39:54 -0400630_UTF-8 I have been enjoying my "yard" this year, particularly since I spent almost
all of the spring and summer of 2014 away, at sea. Fostering the wildlife
on a piece of land has its rewards, what I personally regard as the
"intangible harvest" of our farm. The birds figure heavily into this.

Although I have long read about rose-breasted grosbeaks visiting feeders,
and although we have always had nesting season grosbeaks here, they have
always been only occasional visitors to our feeders, until this year. For
some unknown and perhaps unknowable reason from the summer of 2000, when we
moved [...][log in to unmask]
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Fri, 5 Jun 2015 20:04:59 -0400
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 April 11, 2015,  two birds were singing in a pine tree on the woods edge.  I finally saw with binoculars a Junco making that peculiar call.   This was a time
when Pine Warblers were singing and I wrote it down because it was a very different call.    The back 2 acres is an old Christmas tree farm, situated on Howland Hill
a sandstone ridge- Trumbull County - east of Geauga.              Reading the post and listening to the atypical Junco call  brought back the encounter with the 2 Juncos in April.      Could they have been
headed west to Geauga County?               My hemlocks are growing nicely   and there is also sphagnum moss around  but....

Carole  Babyak    Howland Twp

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