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May 21, 2007 - Paul Elderkin called to report seeing a GRAY SQUIRREL at his feeders just west of the Wolfville-Greenwich boundary. (Then tonight I heard from Bill and Brenda Thexton that they saw a GRAY SQUIRREL yesterday at their home in east Wolfville.) And Jake MacDonald of east Wolfville had a male ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK at his feeders -- his first ever, and he was very excited and elated. In afternoon we drove to Mt. Denson, to the house of Cheryl Phillips and Pol Vincter, for holiday tea (Victoria Day). I took some photos of DORKIE, their tame and territorial male RUFFED GROUSE (tame since June of 2006?), and also photos of a nearby BALD EAGLE NEST along the bank of the mouth of the Avon River. Pol says he has seen at least two EAGLETS in the nest. And when we approached to just a few metres from the bottom of the hardwood nest-tree, the attending female eagle did not leave the nest. Pol and Cheryl say this nest has been there and in use by eagles for several years at least. Also DORKIE is not only interested in people who enter his territory, but he also attacks the bottoms of their legs. He is still displaying and drumming often, and often on the top of their small storage shed next to their house, but he didnąt do any of that while we were there. Susan Grund called this afternoon to say that, early this morning she saw a red bird today on the grounds of the old hospital in Wolfville. It had no crest nor black face like a cardinal, and was the size of a robin or smaller. Her guess from the field guide is SUMMER TANAGER. She also described the colour well. This bird was seen in early morning along the west side of the old hospital, currently community health clinic, on Earnescliff Ave. At tonightąs Blomidon Naturalists Society meeting, George E. Forsyth reported that about two dozen LEAST SANDPIPERS have been at the Port Williams sewage ponds from May 12 to today. This appearance there of the least sandpipers is an annual phenomenon, at least for the past few years. 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> ---------------------- 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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