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--Boundary_(ID_jD6JWvOQvciGGOSj6EqXhw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT MAY 17, 2008 - BLOMIDON NATURALISTS SOCIETY FIELD TRIP -- CAPE SPLIT -- apologies from Sherman Williams, who had a death in the family and couldn't help Pat Kelly and myself lead our small group of six on a cool (5-7 Celsius), overcast, windy, and rainy day -- Bernard Forsythe, Caroline Kelly, and Helen and Mike from Aberdeenshire in Scotland made up our group. Pat saw a PEREGRINE FALCON flying west at the trailhead just before I arrived, and the house there as usual had quite a few feeder birds, such as purple finches, juncos, mourning doves, white-throated sparrows, blue jay, goldfinches, etc. Once we reached the hardwoods about 1/3 of the way along the trail, then there were the expected carpets of zillions of mostly closed-up SPRING BEAUTIES, and like last year there were occasional spring beauties whose stems and leaves were infested with a fruiting RUST FUNGUS. RED/PURPLE TRILLIUMS were abundant, and we saw quite a few flowers whose red was pale (rosy) or absent (whitish). DUTCHMAN'S BREECHES were fairly commonly in bloom, too. Almost in bloom were toothwort, clintonia, and rosy? twisted-stalk, and we saw one spot of blooming GOLDTHREAD, and a few blooming plants of AMERICAN FLY-HONEYSUCKLE. Numerous at the tip of the Split were flowers of STRAWBERRY and BLUE VIOLET. A variety of ferns were up tall enough to be identified to species. Birds that were common included yellow-rumped warblers, juncos, blue- headed vireos, black-capped chickadees, and we also saw robins, downy and hairy woodpeckers, a living spruce tree that very probably had been de-barked by a black-backed woodpecker, black-throated green warblers, ovenbirds, black-and-white warblers, a male c. yellowthroat, white-throated sparrow, ravens, no winter wren heard today (but the ground was very dry and small creeks dry in the morning before the rain began in earnest), 7 black guillemots and 2 male common eiders and 20 unidentified scoters (blacks?) at the tip, 3 double-crested cormorants, nesting great black-backed gulls in a colony and solitary nesting herring gulls at the tip. Patrick and Bernard may be able to add to this list of birds seen and heard. Not many fungi were seen. Besides the rust fungi on the spring beauties, we saw 2 red-banded polypores (shelf fungi) on a horizontal trunk. Also the burls on conifer trunks were caused by a rust fungus? (or perhaps a virus or bacterium??). Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204 --Boundary_(ID_jD6JWvOQvciGGOSj6EqXhw) Content-type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">MAY 17, = 2008 - BLOMIDON NATURALISTS SOCIETY FIELD TRIP -- CAPE SPLIT -- = apologies from Sherman Williams, who had a death in the family and = couldn't help Pat Kelly and myself lead our small group of six on a cool = (5-7 Celsius), overcast, windy, and rainy day -- Bernard Forsythe, = Caroline Kelly, and Helen and Mike from Aberdeenshire in Scotland made = up our group.</font></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 face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">Pat saw a PEREGRINE FALCON flying west at the = trailhead just before I arrived, and the house there as usual had quite = a few feeder birds, such as purple finches, juncos, mourning doves, = white-throated sparrows, blue jay, goldfinches, etc.</font></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 = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Once we = reached the hardwoods about 1/3 of the way along the trail, then there = were the expected carpets of zillions of mostly closed-up SPRING = BEAUTIES, and like last year there were occasional spring beauties whose = stems and leaves were infested with a fruiting RUST = FUNGUS.</font></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 face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">RED/PURPLE TRILLIUMS were abundant, and we saw quite a = few flowers whose red was pale (rosy) or absent (whitish).=A0 DUTCHMAN'S = BREECHES were fairly commonly in bloom, too.=A0 Almost in bloom were = toothwort, clintonia, and rosy? twisted-stalk, and we saw one spot of = blooming GOLDTHREAD, and a few blooming plants of AMERICAN = FLY-HONEYSUCKLE.</font></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 face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">Numerous at the tip of the Split were flowers of = STRAWBERRY and BLUE VIOLET.</font></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 face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">A variety of ferns were up tall enough to be = identified to species.</font></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 face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">Birds that were common included yellow-rumped = warblers, juncos, blue-headed vireos, black-capped chickadees, and we = also saw robins, downy and hairy woodpeckers, a living spruce tree that = very probably had been de-barked by a black-backed woodpecker, = black-throated green warb