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Dear All, Nov 26, 2006
Some new & old dooryard gossip--
A red squirrel that we have seen off an on around the woodpile for
several years has recently become two red squirrels, in that we have
several times seen two at the same time. Yesterday was an on and
presumably off day. Is November a normal time for squirrel mating ?
The Mountain Ash on a nearby lot had a good crop this year but has
been bare of fruit for some weeks; much earlier than usual but this is
not due entirely to bird feeding. For much of the summer and fall our
yard was visited by a Raccoon who left piles here and there, mostly on
the woodpile. This one did not chew fruit well and for a long time
(longer than the cherry season) left loose droppings of partly chewed
cherries. When Mountain Ash fruit were at the orange stage, far from
ripe, many of the droppings contained poorly chewed Mountain Ash fruit
and later of course more ripe fruit.
Later on, when parts of the garden became vacant, it often dug up
vegetable waste that I had buried one or two days previously and the
droppings reflected relatively thorough chewing. I had several times, in
the distant past of elementary Plant Physiology, encountered
_Phycomyces_ in text and illustrations but never encountered it in the
flesh until a few weeks ago when a colony showed up on some
vegetable-waste Raccoon droppings; tiny orange spheres floating above
almost transparent erect candles.
Yours truly, Dave Webster, Kentville
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