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been the one This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001B_01C8D500.D05ED010 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Same thing happens occasionally here on Briar. Nothing like that this = year but notice my car is covered at present even in the gagage. All we = have here are Spruce & Fir trees. =20 Dave Brier Is. ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Sherman Williams=20 To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca=20 Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 12:18 AM Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Yellow pollen in lakes In my experience I have commonly seen this phenomenon during the first = half of June and I would suggest that the source is the staminate cones = of pine, especially from Eastern White Pine. Since the1980's, until about 2004, I would spend a week or part of a = week sometime during the first half of June at Sherbrooke Lake = associated with school groups experiencing nature and the out-of-doors = in the camp setting. Some years, particularly in June, we would = experience deposits of pollen dust all along the the lake shore at the = camp end of the lake (the camp was at the northwest end of the lake. = There was one cove where we would find darkening, yellow-brown cakes or = mats of pollen dust, stranded by dropping water levels. It could have an = unpleasant odor from decomposing in the warm sun. =20 I had concluded that the source was mostly from Eastern White Pine. = During the first half of June the clusters of staminate (male) cones on = White Pine are loaded with large amounts of the pollen dust, ready for = the wind and water to carry it off. White Pine appears to be a very = common tree associated with lake country in the interior of = southwestern Nova Scotia, certainly this was true all around Sherbrooke = Lake. My suggestion, Sherman Sherman Williams shermw@xcountry.tv On 22/06/2008, at 8:07 PM, Patrick Kelly wrote: Hi everyone: We had over two hours of continuous thunderstorm roll north of us on = Saturday. (That would have been the ones RIchard reported driving = through. We only got a few bursts of heavy rain...). A bit late the = same thing happened south of is in the Vaughan area. I went atalssing there this morning and all of the lakes had long = broad "spills" of bright yellow pollen. Some of these were several = metres wide and aver 200 metres long. They looked as though someone had = gone by in a boat and was dumping out yellow paint as they went. Falls = Lake, and Mockingee Lake were affected. Someone I know was at a lake = just west of there (North Canoe Lake) and it had the same thing. She = also had photos of some of the hail that had fallen there on Saturday. = The hail ranged from the size of dimes to the size of nickels. I'm guessing that it must have been blown into the lake, as the rain = should have just brought it to the ground where I would have thought it = would just stay put. Has anyone seen this before, or know what tree = would make that much pollen? 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All we have here are Spruce & Fir trees. =20 </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Dave</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Brier Is.</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=3Dltr=20 style=3D"PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV=20 style=3D"BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B>=20 <A title=3Dshermw@xcountry.tv = href=3D"mailto:shermw@xcountry.tv">Sherman=20 Williams</A> </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=3Dnaturens@chebucto.ns.ca=20 href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</A> = </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, June 23, 2008 = 12:18=20 AM</DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NatureNS] Yellow = pollen in=20 lakes</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>In my experience I have commonly seen this phenomenon during the = first=20 half of June and I would suggest that the source is the staminate = cones of=20 pine, especially from Eastern White Pine.</DIV> <DIV><BR class=3Dwebkit-block-placeholder></DIV>Since the1980's, until = about=20 2004, I would spend a week or part of a week sometime during the first = half=20 &a