[NatureNS] daphne, scilla, headless voles, tree swallows, ring-necked ducks,

Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:33:00 -0300
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I've added some notes to what I sent yesterday, and I have tried to mostly
just select what I added after the original sending.  Cheers from Jim in
Wolfville

April 22, 2007 - Bill Thexton saw an unidentified chunky SHOREBIRD in
Hennigarıs Marsh west of Sheffield Mills.

April 23, 2007 - The planted DAPHNE bushes in the Wolfville Waterfront Park
are in bloom.  The Daphne bushes along lower Oak Avenue probably are not in
bloom yet, since they are protected from the sun and afternoon warmth by a
hillside.  

Also in bloom now are SCILLA (³bluebells²) or their look-alikes in gardens.

Bernard Forsythe says itıs quite common for barred owls to decapitate their
prey, eat the heads, then reserve the body and softer parts for their
youngsters.  [Concerning the 30+ headless field voles found in the nest-box
with 3 young owlets.]

At the New Minas riverside Ducks Unlimited pond, 3+ TREE SWALLOWS and 7 male
RING-NECKED DUCKS.

Brenda & Bill Thexton saw 16 HARLEQUIN DUCKS at Port George.

At the Thextonsı home in east Wolfville in late afternoon to dusk, a cock
PHEASANT continues to court a hen.  And Bill says the male has also tried to
court what I think is a young cock (nape just turning green now); Bill
wonders if this younger bird is an intersex or hermaphrodite with mixed
signals for the cock?

At midnight I checked a couple of pond areas for calling amphibians: at the
Greenwich/Wolfville exit ramp just south of Highway 101, about 10 SPRING
PEEPERS were calling strongly, with the air temperature at about 20 C. (max.
today in Wolfville was 29 C.!); and about half a kilometre east of Gaspereau
in a swamp that floods with runoff water every spring, there was a strong
chorus of ³quacking² WOOD FROGS (plus a few peepers).
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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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