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May 23, 2007 - RED OAK and BALSAM/BLACK POPLAR are in bloom in Wolfville. A lovely male YELLOW WARBLER was heard singing and then seen at the kink in Wickwire Ave. in Wolfville by Mike Corbett and myself. May 24, 2007 - This morning Pat saw two ³RABBITS² in our front yard in Wolfville, presumably SNOWSHOE HARES. I saw RED ELDERBERRY in bloom in Wolfville. I was showing DRABA VERNA or WHITLOW ³GRASS² still in bloom on the lawn at Beveridge Arts Centre, Acadia Univ., to Laurel McIvor of the Irving Ctr. on campus, when she bent down and noticed a more tiny and even shorter lovely blue-flowered SPEEDWELL species, which is perhaps CORN SPEEDWELL?, VERONICA ARVENSIS? with the Whitlow ³Grass². May 25, 2007 - Last evening and again today, ³As It Happens² on CBC Radio had items on the fact that a predicted-to-be-huge brood of 17-YEAR ³LOCUSTS², really PERIODICAL CICADAS, are just starting their spectacular emergence of nymphs that have spent the past 17 years underground, growing and eating plant roots etc.?, in the Oak Park area and elsewhere near Chicago, including near O¹Hare Airport (where I grew up long ago). ³Periodical Cicadas², with either 13- or 17-year life cycles, are in contrast to the ³Annual Cicadas² (or ³dog-day cicadas) to which we Nova Scotians are accustomed, which have life cycles of 2 to 5 years. Another difference in the two groups is that periodical species occur in late Spring, whereas ³annual² species occur in the ³dog days² of late summer. May 26, 2007 - ³PARKS ARE FOR PEOPLE² (DNR) WALK IN BLOMIDON PROVINCIAL PARK, an annual walk led by me. It was sunny and warm but very windy, with very few black flies this year. Our group included 8 adults and about 12 youth, including some Girl Guides from Canning and Kingsport. As usual the meltwater or vernal pond in the woods along the Cliff or Jodrey Trail held lots of the special FAIRY SHRIMPS, which have been known there since 1988 and occur nowhere else in Nova Scotia (except for a tiny awful swamp between agricultural fields at Somerset north of Berwick). More details from this walk later. May 28, 2007 - LILAC starting in flower at home in Wolfville. May 29, 2007 - Just below our home along Wolfville¹s Wickwire Ave., female catkins of a small LOMBARDY POPLAR are just beginning to shed their ³cottony² seeds, and the catkins are showing lots of yellowish infection with a FUNGUS (photo taken). Adjacent to the Lombardy poplar, some large BALSAM POPLARS will not shed their cottony seeds for weeks yet?
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