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--Boundary_(ID_7RYOXlSd9IfLdYavBcaGAQ) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT APR. 4, 2009 - Yesterday and today got very warm, today up to about 18 C., and there were SONG SPARROWS SINGING everywhere in Wolfville. At our feeders there was a single COMMON REDPOLL, the first one of these seen by me in a long while. Also there were still an AM. TREE SPARROW and an adult WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW, plus 3+ white-throated sparrows, a junco, a mourning dove, 3 pheasants, a crow, a blue jay, and 2 bl.-c. chickadees. A single RED MAPLE tree has male flowers open (probably opened yesterdaty) in Wolfville, and a planted HAZELNUT? has open male catkins in our neighbourhood (Hilda & Mark Taylor's old home on Chestnut Ave.) -- for the hazelnut, either the plant is totally male or the female flowers are not yet open (perhaps this may ensure that outbreeding occurs in this species?). At Greenwich, SPECKLED ALDER now has male catkins opening. At Waterville the CORNWALLIS RIVER water level is extremely HIGH, swollen greatly with melt-water and rain-water. Marg Millard at White Point reports she thought she heard one SPRING PEEPER last night, and someone told me that one or more were heard on April 2/09 in Shelburne County (report was heard on CBC Radio). I should check the FROGWATCH records on the Web site of the N.S. Museum of Natural History. Also today Dorothy Cameron of Woods Harbour (sw. corner of N.S.) reported hearing SPRING PEEPERS today, and yesterday Chris Callaghan and Andy Moir heard peepers at Freeport. APR. 5, 2009 - WHITE-CROWNED and AM. TREE SPARROWS, one of each, still present at our feeders. Male CARDINAL singing nearby, and male FLICKER has found another nearby CHIMNEY on which to drum. Also a male MOURNING DOVE was aggressively COURTING a presumed female (a bit smaller), who acted as if she was anything but receptive to his advances. Three other mourning doves were also at the feeders, along with 2 starlings, 3 chickadees, our NORWAY RAT (who apparently overwintered in a system of burrows adjacent to the feeders), and a red squirrel. APR. 6, 2009 - A planted SILVER MAPLE has FEMALE FLOWERS open just west of the Acadia Univ. Arena parking lot. Adult WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW with dark lores still at home feeders. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville Jim (James W.) Wolford 91 Wickwire Ave. Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada B4P 1W3 phone 902-542-9204 e-mail <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> "In wildness is the preservation of the world" -- Henry David Thoreau --Boundary_(ID_7RYOXlSd9IfLdYavBcaGAQ) 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; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; "><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 14px/normal Arial; "><b>APR. 4, 2009=A0</b>- Yesterday and today got = very warm, today up to about 18 C., and there were=A0<b>SONG SPARROWS = SINGING</b>=A0everywhere in Wolfville.=A0=A0At our feeders there was a = single=A0<b>COMMON REDPOLL</b>, the first one of these seen by me in a = long while.=A0=A0Also there were still an=A0<b>AM. TREE SPARROW</b>=A0and = an adult=A0<b>WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW</b>, plus 3+ white-throated = sparrows, a junco, a mourning dove, 3 pheasants, a crow, a blue jay, and = 2 bl.-c. chickadees.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: = normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; ">A single=A0<b>RED = MAPLE=A0</b>tree has male flowers open (probably opened yesterdaty) in = Wolfville, and a planted=A0<b>HAZELNUT?</b>=A0has open male catkins in = our neighbourhood (Hilda & Mark Taylor's old home on Chestnut Ave.) = -- for the hazelnut, either the plant is totally male or the female = flowers are not yet open (perhaps this may ensure that outbreeding = occurs in this species?).</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: = normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; ">At Greenwich,=A0<b>SPECKLED = ALDER</b>=A0now has male catkins opening.</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; = min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 14px/normal Arial; ">At Waterville the=A0<b>CORNWALLIS RIVER water level = is extremely HIGH</b>, swollen greatly with melt-water and = rain-water.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top:= 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 14px/normal Arial; ">Marg Millard at White Point reports she thought she = heard one=A0<b>SPRING PEEPER</b>=A0last night, and someone told me that = one or more were heard on April 2/09 in Shelburne County (report was = heard on CBC Radio).=A0=A0I should check the<b>=A0FROGWATCH = records</b>=A0on the Web site of the N.S. Museum of Natural = History.=A0=A0Also today Dorothy Cameron of Woods Harbour (sw. corner of = N.S.) reported hearing=A0<b>SPRING PEEPERS</b>=A0today, and yesterday = Chris Callaghan and Andy Moir heard peepers at = Freeport.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top:= 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 14px/normal Arial; "><b>APR. 5, 2009</b>=A0-=A0<b>WHITE-CROWNED and AM. = TREE SPARROWS</b>, one of each, still present at our = feeders.=A0=A0Male=A0<b>CARDINAL</b>=A0singing nearby, and = male<b>=A0FLICKER</b>=A0has found another nearby=A0<b>CHIMNEY=A0</b>on = which to drum.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top:= 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 14px/normal Arial; ">Also a male=A0<b>MOURNING DOVE</b>=A0was = aggressively=A0<b>COURTING</b>=A0a presumed female (a bit smaller), who = acted as if she was anything but receptive to his advances.=A0=A0Three = other mourning doves were also at the feeders, along with 2 starlings, 3 = chickadees, our=A0<b>NORWAY RAT=A0</b>(who apparently overwintered in a = system of burrows adjacent to the feeders), and a red = squirrel.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top:= 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 14px/normal Arial; "><b>APR. 6, 2009</b>=A0- A planted=A0<b>SILVER = MAPLE</b>=A0has=A0<b>FEMALE FLOWERS</b>=A0open just west of the Acadia = Univ. Arena parking lot.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: = normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; ">Adult=A0<b>WHITE-CROWNED = SPARROW=A0</b>with dark lores still at home feeders.</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Arial" = size=3D"4"><br></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4"><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: = normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville</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: = normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Jim (James W.) = Wolford</font></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: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = ">91 Wickwire Ave.</font></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: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada</font></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: = normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">B4P 1W3</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: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; ">phone 902-542-9204</font></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: = normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">e-mail <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>></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: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; ">"In wildness is the preservation of the world" = -- Henry David Thoreau</font></div><div><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-size: 12px;"><br></span></font></div></font></div></span> </body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_7RYOXlSd9IfLdYavBcaGAQ)--
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