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Thanks to Mark Elderkin for this note, and I recently heard the same thing from Pat Pocklington, who lives close to the east end of Dale. Cheers from Jim ---------- From: Mark F Elderkin <elderkmf@gov.ns.ca> Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:35:05 -0400 To: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> Subject: Re: gray squirrel with red squirrel, also cardinals, in Wolfvile Jim: The Gray Squirrels on Sherwood regularly move over to Dale Street, a spur road off of Sherwood. Some folks I know on Dale St. have two Black Walnut trees both of which produce significant quantities of nuts (hundreds) in late fall. Last fall I watched as two adults were harvesting the nuts and carrying them off somewhere toward Main Street. This source of high quality mast, offset by bird feeders through the winter seems to be keeping these squirrels in the peak of health! Cheers Mark F. Elderkin Species at Risk Biologist Wildlife Division NS Department of Natural Resources 136 Exhibition Street Kentville, Nova Scotia B4N 4E5 PH:(902)679-6091 FAX:(902)679-6176 >>> Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> 2008-03-04 11:20 AM >>> May 4, 2008 - Yesterday and again today I received calls from Ceci Thomson of Wolfville regarding a GRAY SQUIRREL she has been observing along lower Sherwood Avenue and in Sherwood Ravine for about six months. She lives in a 2nd-floor apartment at 10 Sherwood Ave., Apt. 28, 542-2253, and she has a bird feeder or two associated with a window. Also she somehow provides food for the squirrels on an adjacent branch of a pine. This gray squirrel has a ½buddy…, a RED SQUIRREL, and lately they have been chasing and traveling together? Also the red squirrel seems to be dominating the larger gray squirrel. Perhaps two months ago, she noted a squirrel with a large gray tail, and that squirrels body was brown. I wondered if perhaps there is some seasonal variation in colour in gray squirrel, or perhaps a different individual, since gray squirrels can show a lot of variation. This location is only a few blocks west of the yard along Main St. in Wolfville where, going back to Christmas Eve of 2006, there have been regular sightings of up to THREE GRAY SQUIRRELS at a time (YIPE!), and at least one successful LITTER of two babies produced in 2007. Two gray squirrels were still being seen there at least as recently as December/07. Also Ceci mentioned that she sees N. CARDINALS there regularly. 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> ---------------------- ½In wildness is the preservation of the world.… -- Henry David Thoreau ----------------------
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