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I neglected to mention that when I drove past the two sites of morning concentrations of eagles at 2 p.m., there were no eagles there at all, or perhaps just 3 or 4 in one spot and only one in the other. The point is that eagle-gawking is by far best in the morning, and you will want to be in the area by 9 a.m. or so, perhaps pick up a map at the Hall, then drive around for a while, only later going back to the Hall for the breakfast, or for coffee and muffin, plus the displays and videos. Cheers again from Jim in Wolfville ---------- From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:00:41 -0400 To: NatureNS <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Cc: Helen & Fred Archibald <hfarchibald@ns.sympatico.ca> Subject: more on eagles at Sheffield Mills, Canard replacement nest, and overnight roost near White Rock Jan. 31, 2008 - I drove to Sheffield Mills to meet Tony Chaulkıs class of grade 3? students from Berwick. At 9:30 a.m. Bill Swetnam put out chicken carcasses at the north end of Middle Dyke Road, and the 30+ BALD EAGLES assembled there quickly swooped, picked up, flew off with them, and then perched in rather distant trees to dine on them. Further south on Middle Dyke Road, a bit north of Canard Road, was another assemblage of 25 BALD EAGLES, 18 of them in one tree (along the west side of the road, at the edge of a big field). We all then went to the Sheffield Mills Community Hall, where we had a question-and-answer session on eagles. Later I checked on the progress of the new BALD EAGLE NEST along Canard Road east of the junction with Highway 358. An eagle was on the nest, which has grown considerably compared with a few weeks ago -- this nest is the replacement for the one which blew down with the top of the nest tree. The new nest is quite a bit further from the road, perhaps 300 metres? Much later today, at 5:45 p.m., in New Minas I saw an adult BALD EAGLE flying south and a bit west across Commercial Street. This eagle was very probably heading for the known communal overnight roost for bald eagles in the Gaspereau River valley, a bit west of White Rock. Another item: Janet and John Foster, the well-known nature documentary filmers from Ontario, are here for about a week and are planning on not only doing more local filming of the eagles etc. but also dropping in to the Sheffield Mills Community Hall for breakfast tomorrow. 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> ---------------------- 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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