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June 10, 2007 - Pat and I walked the trails at Noggins Farm at Greenwich, and, even though we had their map, again immediately got lost! Nevertheless, itıs a nice area in which to wander around (as long as you can put up with fair numbers of hungry MOSQUITOES). The forest floor was a carpet of blooming WILD LILY-OF-THE-VALLEY, with lots of flowering CLINTONIA plus FALSE SOLOMONıS SEAL and STARFLOWER. Near the railroad tracks we found a large fledged-but-downy CHICK of a GREAT HORNED OWL, very close to the nest tree, I believe (used to be a red-tailed hawk nest until 2006, when the owls successfully used it). At least one BALD EAGLE was flying/soaring around the site, back and forth, and we walked past the base of the tree that holds the EAGLE NEST, and, quite close, the base of the tree that now holds the EAGLE NEST CAM. The nest tree has a white sign on its trunk, and the webcam tree has a ladder and cables etc. at its base. The EAGLE NEST CAM can be found on the computer by Googling ³nogginsfarm², then choosing ³Agri-tainment², then click on the Eagle Nest Cam. However, the camera has apparently moved, so that this afternoon it didnıt show the nest at all. I trust that can be fixed soon (although I donıt know how they can do that without freaking out the eagles?). On the ground on a trail we found a single CARRION BEETLE that will probably be identifiable, at least to genus, once I find an apppropriate book. 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> ---------------------- ³The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.² - Ellen Parr ---------------------- 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 ----------------------
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