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Index of Subjects We visited Clam Harbour PP today on a very pleasant afternoon, but found virtually no cranberries in the usually productive area behind the beach. It hadn't been picked over by others, and was a little early for some of the few berries we found, but overall, we have never seen so few cranberries there before. Does anyone on NatureNS know if this is just a local famine, or a general problem in NS this year? I wonder incidentally if the folks organizing the Taylor Head trip this weekend have checked out that area in advance for berries, to know if there is an actual supply there this year to go after? We normally pick for 2-3 hours, but gave up this time after ~20 min. I calculate that we got <1 cranberry per round-trip kilometer travelled (from Halifax). The beach was very pleasant, clean and peaceful, of course, and we found a lot of half-alive bibionid flies (March flies) and a few other insects washing up on the beach. Presumably they must have been blown out to sea from the land earlier. A couple of small plovers were picking them up. Steve (Halifax) P.S. Dave Webster/tar spots: re. identification, most of the maples around our place are well-turned in fall colours and have no tar spots. The remaining two maples that still have large green leaves (no red or yellow) both have conspicuous tar spots, and both pass your suggested test for Norway maples -- nicking the vascular bundles on the leaves releases a bit of whitish sap, though not much. Thanks for the help with the ID.
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