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Not sure about the birds, but Rose Hip Jelly is fantastic! Ray Dempsey Clementsport ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul MacDonald" <paulrita2001@yahoo.com> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Sunday, November 12, 2006 7:58 PM Subject: RE: [NatureNS] redpoll? at Avonport, 35 Can. geese at Greenwich, rose-hips galore, dead barred owl > Hi Marian > I assume you are speaking of the Virginia Rose - Rosa > virginiana not some other type. > Ocassionally while preparing Ruffed Grouse for the > table, I have found rose hips in their crops. As I > don't prepare that many, it would be a small sample to > base any definite statements on. > The Natives had an interesting name for them - in its > translated form wouldn't pass the scanner! It would be > well for anyone wishing to try them to find out about > the name and be prepared in advance. > Have a nice itch free fall! > Paul > > > > --- Marian Fulton & Art Harding > <fulton.harding@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: > >> I have pondered this question about rose hips >> myself. I assume that >> birds do not require a lot of vitamin c and the >> fleshy rose hips are >> therefore not a great food source for them. I have >> noted that birds go >> for the small seedy almost fleshless hips of the >> multiflora roses and >> will only eat the fleshier ones from other roses >> when all other food >> sources are depleted. I assume the seeds are a >> much better source of >> protein and maybe even fats. >> >> I would appreciate hearing comments from anyone >> knowledgeable about the >> dietary requirements of birds or the nutritional >> content of various >> rosehips. >> >> Marian Fulton >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca >> [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] On Behalf Of >> Jim Wolford >> Sent: 12 November 2006 17:24 >> To: NatureNS >> Subject: [NatureNS] redpoll? at Avonport, 35 Can. >> geese at Greenwich, >> rose-hips galore, dead barred owl >> >> Nov. 12, 2006 - Heather MacDonald at Avonport Beach >> reports a small bird >> with red on the top of its head, probably a COMMON >> REDPOLL? >> >> No sign of the GOLDENEYES at Port Williams sewage >> ponds (2 checks turned >> up >> only 2 pairs of MALLARDS). The large field of corn >> stubble just south >> of >> Noggins Farm at Greenwich contained about 35+ CANADA >> GEESE in the >> afternoon. >> >> In walking and driving on the Port Williams and >> Grand Pre dykes and >> dykelands, Pat and I noticed oodles of ROSE-HIPS OF >> WILD ROSE. What >> eats >> these hips? Their huge numbers every year donıt >> seem to get depleted >> much >> during the winter. >> >> Stephen Coldwell picked up a road-killed BARRED OWL >> (probably) along >> Highway >> 101 just east of the Hortonville/Grand Pre exit. >> There were no bands on >> the >> legs, and he will get the bird to the N.S. Dept. of >> Nat. Resources in >> Kentville. >> >> Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204 >> --------------------- >> Jim (James W.) Wolford >> 91 Wickwire Avenue >> Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada >> B4P 1W3 >> phone (902)542-9204 (home) >> fax (902)585-1059 (Acadia Univ. Biology Dept.) >> e-mail <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> >> ---------------------- >> ³...... the Earth .....belongs as much to those who >> come after us as to >> us; >> and we have no right, by anything that we do, or >> neglect to do, to >> involve >> them in unnecessary penalties, or to deprive them of >> benefits which are >> theirs by right.² - John Ruskin >> ---------------------- >> >> > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Music Unlimited > Access over 1 million songs. > http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited >
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