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Add below where the mayflowers were: Also from the huge number of ACORNS on the ground there, last summer must have been a MAST YEAR for the local RED OAKS; ---------- From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:58:24 -0300 To: NatureNS <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Subject: [NatureNS] mayflowers, Iceland and glaucous? gulls, ring-necked ducks, etc. April 19, 2007 - Afternoon clear and sunny, but still brrrrrrrr! (weatherman promises Spring and warmth for tomorrow and weekend?). In New Minası Lockhart-Ryan Park, only a few MAYFLOWER plants show flower-buds, and of those very few (but some) show open flowers. My favourite place to look in early Spring is a west-facing bank along the westernmost access road into the park. New Minas sewage ponds: - at least 3 adult probable ICELAND GULLS (not seen closely enough to eliminate GLAUCOUS gull); - 1 small-sized first-winter GLAUCOUS GULL(?), seen very well -- beak pink with black tip and large, head not rounded, and wings not particularly long when compared with close-by herring gulls, plumage still light beige -- BUT now after looking at the plates in the Nat. Geogr. guide, Iım confused about my identification here, and perhaps this is another of those problem birds -- please someone check it out before weekıs end and let me know what you think?; - lots of other gulls (mostly inactive), including good numbers of RING-BILLED GULLS; - 2 male RING-NECKED DUCKS; - about 20 BLACK DUCKS; - 5+ MALLARDS; - 5+ GREEN-WINGED TEAL; - however, lots of ducks were sleeping along the pond banks, and I was there during very high tide in the adjacent river; - 2 BALD EAGLES (1 adult, 1 imm. with white V-shaped patch at top of back) perched separately in tall pines along the river -- I think this is a likely spot for an eagle nest, but so far none reported; - 1 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> ---------------------- "Humans aren't the only species on the earth -- we just act like it. " -- gotten from Linda Lusby -- souce unknown?? -------------
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