next message in archive
no next message in thread
previous message in archive
Index of Subjects
Feb. 13, 2007 - Continuing very cold -- ³brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr² in the familiar words of Murray Newell! ³High² temperature today of -9 C.!! and windy to boot! About a week ago James Hirtle reported a male BARROW¹S GOLDENEYE at the Port Williams sewage ponds. Two days ago I saw it there poorly, and it was with two other unidentified goldeneyes. Today I got a very good look at the male, and it was with a single COMMON GOLDENEYE. There is very little open water, only one spot in the north pond, and about 40 MALLARDS were also there. New Minas sewage ponds: likewise very little open water, mainly only in the 4th pond as you drive in. I saw 2 ICELAND GULLS, both of them immatures -- one of these was in 2nd-winter plumage, like the illustration in the Nat. Geogr. guide, but will more gray in the subadult? mantle -- the second one not seen as well as the previous one. Also present at the N. M. s. pds. was a group of 5 SONG SPARROWS, 2 CROWS, and a RED-TAILED HAWK. 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 ---------------------- Yesterday is history, tomorrow a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why they call it the present! -- from poem by Eleanor Roosevelt. ----------------------
next message in archive
no next message in thread
previous message in archive
Index of Subjects