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--Boundary_(ID_fQJawtMi9PwmOw7mUc+8uA) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT April 6, 2008 - About 50 unidentified WAXWINGS flew by our Wolfville house; presumably they were part of the 300 seen yesterday here. April 7, 2008 - Another bright Sunny Spring day, with temperatures up to 11 C. in The Valley. At the home feeders, an adult WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW was a different individual from the younger one seen just once a couple of days ago. Also a GOLDFINCH WITH A QUITE YELLOW BACK was a nice sign of the season. Two FLORAL HAPPENINGS noted today: ALDER CATKINS are nearly open in a cattail marsh west of Sheffield Mills, and in Wolfville female flower- buds of SILVER MAPLE are opening. Port Williams sewage ponds: 2 CANADA GEESE together, a male RING- NECKED DUCK, and 3 MALLARDS (a m/f pr and a m). East of Port Williams along river: a hovering buteo hawk, probably a red-tailed hawk (not a rough-leg). Van Nostrand's Ponds (Starr's Point): 3 male RING-NECKED DUCKS, 40 CANADA GEESE, a male MALLARD, a single male C. GRACKLE, a single male RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD, and a damaged? (2 holes) COCOON of a CECROPIA MOTH low in a roadside ditch willow (about 1 metre high). Canning Aboiteau: 55 CANADA GEESE. Canning: 300 more CANADA GEESE. Harris' Pond (Canning): nearly all still iced up. Hennigar's Marsh (west of Sheffield Mills): no birds seen at all. Saxon Street Pond: ice nearly all gone, 5 COMMON MERGANSERS (2 m/f prs + a m), 2 BLACK DUCKS together, 6 probable GREEN-WINGED TEALS, and the red-tailed? hawk on the nest. Along Fred Thomas Road (ne. of former poultry plant), about 1500-2000 GULLS (no LBBGs detected), many of them feverishly active on and near the poultry? manure pile. Canard Pond had 300 more GULLS, a single male MALLARD, no other ducks. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204 --Boundary_(ID_fQJawtMi9PwmOw7mUc+8uA) Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <HTML><BODY style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; = -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">April 6, 2008 = - About 50 unidentified WAXWINGS flew by our Wolfville house; presumably = they were part of the 300 seen yesterday here.</DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">April 7, 2008 = - Another bright Sunny Spring day, with temperatures up to 11 C. in The = Valley.=A0 At the home feeders, an adult WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW was a = different individual from the younger one seen just once a couple of = days ago.=A0 Also a GOLDFINCH WITH A QUITE YELLOW BACK was a nice sign = of the season.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">Two FLORAL HAPPENINGS noted today: ALDER CATKINS are = nearly open in a cattail marsh west of Sheffield Mills, and in Wolfville = female flower-buds of SILVER MAPLE are opening.</DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Port Williams = sewage ponds: 2 CANADA GEESE together, a male RING-NECKED DUCK, and 3 = MALLARDS (a m/f pr and a m).</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">East of Port Williams along river: a hovering buteo = hawk, probably a red-tailed hawk (not a rough-leg).</DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Van = Nostrand's Ponds (Starr's Point): 3 male RING-NECKED DUCKS, 40 CANADA = GEESE, a male MALLARD,=A0 a single male C. GRACKLE, a single male = RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD,=A0 and a damaged? (2 holes) COCOON of a CECROPIA = MOTH low in a roadside ditch willow (about 1 metre high).</DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Canning = Aboiteau: 55 CANADA GEESE.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Canning: 300 = more CANADA GEESE.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Harris' Pond (Canning): = nearly all still iced up.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">Hennigar's Marsh (west of Sheffield Mills): no birds = seen at all.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">Saxon Street Pond: ice nearly all gone, 5 COMMON = MERGANSERS (2 m/f prs + a m), 2 BLACK DUCKS together, 6 probable = GREEN-WINGED TEALS, and the red-tailed? hawk on the nest.</DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Along Fred = Thomas Road (ne. of former poultry plant), about 1500-2000 GULLS (no = LBBGs detected), many of them feverishly active on and near the poultry? = manure pile.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">Canard Pond had 300 more GULLS, a single male = MALLARD, no other ducks.</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Cheers from = Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204</DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><P = style=3D"margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 14.0px">=A0<BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></P><DIV style=3D"text-align: = center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"text-align: auto;margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: = normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; = "><BR></DIV><DIV style=3D"text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV = style=3D"text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><BR = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>= --Boundary_(ID_fQJawtMi9PwmOw7mUc+8uA)--
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