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May 12, 2007 - NOVA SCOTIA MIGRATION COUNT (new name (why?) for North American Migration Count). Mostly sunny, but quite cold today (9 to 13 C. with strong wind from east all day). My birding highlights for the day included downy BABY BALD EAGLES at several local nests, a WILLET and 2 GREATER YELLOWLEGS at Van Nostrandıs Pond (Starrıs Point), a male GADWALL apparently paired with a female MALLARD (with a male mallard hanging around not far away) at Saxon St. Pond, a m/f pair of COMMON MERGANSERS at the D.U. pond along Middle Dyke Road, a male WOOD DUCK in the pond south of Chipman Corner, and an adult BALD EAGLE doing a complete raven-like BARREL ROLL in the air to avoid being hit by a harassing RAVEN. I heard LEOPARD FROGS calling (snoring) at several local ponds, as well as a few SPRING PEEPERS. And basking PAINTED TURTLES were enjoying the sunlight in spite of the quite cool temperatures (no doubt warmer where the turtles were at the edge of or just above the water surface. A few blooming SHADBUSH/SERVICEBERRY/SASKATOON bushes were seen during my driving around. 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. ----------------------
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