[NatureNS] check on 5 local bald eagle nests, plus 800 Canada geese

Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:33:59 -0400
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March 20, 2007 - VERNAL EQUINOX - I checked on five BALD EAGLE NESTS in
eastern Kingšs County -- all of these are checkable without getting out of
my car:

- east of Wolfville, just east of Eye Road off Highway 1 -- adult eagle
sitting on nest as if incubating egg(s);

- Starršs Point Loop Rd./Willowbank Farm site (north bank of Cornwallis
River -- I couldnšt see whether an adult eagle was on the nest or not (could
have been facing the river and not seen) -- also a walking young woman there
told me that eagles have been attending the nest-site lately;

- northeast Starršs Point site (Chris Coxšs farm) -- adult eagle sitting on
nest as if incubating -- also an immature bald eagle flew closely by the
nest site;

- Canard Road site, se. of Jawbone Corner -- adult eagle on nest as if
incubating;

- Greenwich, Noggins Farm site -- adult eagle on nest as if incubating.

Thus 4 of 5 eagle nests checked had single incubating? adults on them, and
the 5th nest was also perhaps occupied.
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Also just downstream from Wellington Dyke in the lower Canard River was an
impressive flock of perhaps 800 CANADA GEESE (these are not new arrivals --
at least 4-500 have been reported off and on for most of the winter.

Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204
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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>
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