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Index of Subjects Cranberries were very poor at Sandhills this year. One or two other places I know of in this area were also very poor. On the other hand I raked about ten quarts in twenty minutes at Powell's beach, and the berries were also good on Cape Island. Roland. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Shaw" <srshaw@dal.ca> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 12:53 AM Subject: [NatureNS] Cranberry slim pickings > 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. > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.488 / Virus Database: > 269.15.0/1077 - Release Date: 10/18/2007 9:54 AM >
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