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June 14, 2007 - Lisa Eye, who lives on Church St. northeast of Port Williams, reports a recently seen male BALTIMORE ORIOLE (after seeing both a male and female about two weeks previously), and a nest probably of a YELLOW WARBLER, all in her yard. June 15, 2007 - I went up to BLOMIDON PROVINCIAL PARK to do my ³POND LIFE² show and tell to Martin Doucette¹s grade 9 high school students (about 30) who camped in the park over the two previous nights. I met them and Charlane Bishop at the Jodrey Cliff Trail¹s VERNAL OR RUN-OFF POND (no inlet nor outlet) with my dip-net, bucket, enamel pan, and Golden Guide to Pond Life. I had just done this three weeks prior on May 26, which allowed some interesting comparisons. A single FAIRY SHRIMP (female with eggs) was still present, eggs of YELLOW-SPOTTED SALAMANDERS (only one clump, green with symbiotic algae) seen) were HATCHING, oodles of TADPOLES of ?WOOD FROGS? with no legs yet, etc. etc. -- more details to be reported later. The morning was cool at 9 C. and very foggy all over the North Mountain. Despite a lot of rain in the first half of June, the water in the vernal pond had fallen by something like 0.5 to 1 metre and now was two separate bodies of water separated by wet land with oodles of royal and sensitive ferns. Every year this pond dries up to varying extents. June 18, 2007 - PHOTO (end of film) at Digby Pines Resort of a STOP THE QUARRY COALITION press conference during the lunch break of the fed./prov. environmenal assessment panel review of the White¹s Cove Basalt Quarry and Marine Terminal proposal by Bilcon of Nova Scotia (really of New Jersey). In evening after Blomidon Naturalists Society meeting, the clear sky in the west showed a lovely astronomical sight: the Crescent Moon nicely grouped between Saturn and Venus; Jupiter was also very bright to the wouth. June 20/07 - Bernard Forsythe at his Wolfville Ridge home found that his CECROPIA MOTH COCOON, kept outdoors in the top of his well since the winter, had ³HATCHED² overnight into a lovely FEMALE adult moth, AND, by the time he discovered it, a MALE CECROPIA had found it and was copulating with it. This is coincidental with the fact that Nancy Nickerson showed us a newly emerged female CECROPIA MOTH just yesterday evening at the Irving Centre; she found the cocoon in Greenwich in winter or spring and kept it at her home until noting the emergence just in time for our nature walk. Along Highway 101 on the way to Digby, for the public hearings on the White¹s Point Basalt Quarry and Marine Terminal proposal, BIRD¹S-FOOT TREFOIL and BLACK LOCUST trees (³ACACIA²) in bloom. PHOTOS of COMMON BARBERRY (Berberis vulgaris) in bloom at DIGBY PINES RESORT (2 photos of resort) at Digby; this is the species that is the alternate host for WHEAT RUST, a very nasty pest for agriculture, and thus common barberry should be eliminated wherever it can still be found. Two recent bird reports for Wolfville: Dorothy and Jim Perkin (who reported a single N. MOCKINGBIRD weeks ago) have been seeing 2 N. MOCKINGBIRDS lately in their neighborhood, which is west of Cherry Lane and east of Paul Elderkin¹s pond (new residential area of condos and homes) -- I asked Jim if he had been hearing one singing, and he jokingly replied that he wouldn¹t call that ³singing²!; and David Silverberg, who has a studio on lower Hillside Ave., reports a EUR. STARLING feeding several JUVENILES (he didn¹t know what the latter were). Cheers from Jim in Wolfville --------------------- 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 ----------------------
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