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--Boundary_(ID_DemOPnYaSdtjs8NPfXTDbw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT APR. 8, 2009 - No noticeable flower-heads of COLTSFOOT yet west of Gaspereau -- very late this year. BUT today Suzanne Clary found a large area of blooming COLTSFOOT in Coldbrook, a bit west of Tim Hortons along Hwy. 1. APR. 9, 2009 - I checked out the planted HAZELNUT or FILBERT? at Hilda & Mark Taylor's old property near the top of Chestnut Ave. in Wolfville -- see April 4/09, when I reported the male catkins open but no apparent female flowers. Well, now there are quite tiny FEMALE FLOWERS showing if one looks closely -- they are dark purple? and much less apparent than the gorgeous but small red flowers on wild beaked hazelnut. The species or variety of this planted HAZELNUT or FILBERT? is yet to be confirmed (my encyclopedia of garden plants lists at least four planted species of the genus Corylus). Hilda told me that they used to get hazelnuts/filberts from that plant, and therefore there must have been female flowers, too. APR. 10, 2009 - Sunny and semi-warm today (up to 10 C. in a.m.), a gorgeous Spring day! Our adult WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW is still at our feeders, with 2 white- throated sparrows. At the Blomidon Inn in Wolfville, a BLACK-CAPPED CHICKADEE was SINGING (phee-bee-bee) very persistently, with one song quickly following the previous song, in a long series. Oodles of CROCUSES now everywhere and all open, of several colours, and happily attended by LOTS OF HONEY BEES -- on April 6 I learned a lot from Dick Rogers' public presentation on the health of and risks to honey bees, to the N.S. Institute of Health -- and see the April 2009 issue of Scientific American for a good and thorough article on this, concluding that the Colony Collapse Disorder is very complex and has many contributing causes, which have to be monitored and managed. Other flowers were SNOWDROPS, blue SCILLA or its look-alikes, and COLTSFOOT. The latter were abundant along Oak Avenue in Wolfville, where "Jean Timpa's" DAPHNE bushes are showing flower colour but the flowers are not quite open (very soon!). In the Oak Avenue cattail marsh by the railroad tracks, there were 2 male RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS (together, and one sang once), and a very cooperative SWAMP SPARROW came to my pishing and posed for a minute or so -- too bad I wasn't leading a field trip there! Also a GREAT BLUE HERON flew over downtown Wolfville. I couldn't see any obvious raven nest in the Oak Ave. area today. 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_DemOPnYaSdtjs8NPfXTDbw) 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"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 14.0px Arial"><b>APR. 8, = 2009</b> -=A0No noticeable flower-heads of <b>COLTSFOOT</b> yet west of = Gaspereau -- very late this year.=A0<b> BUT</b> today Suzanne Clary = found a large area of <b>blooming COLTSFOOT</b> in Coldbrook, a bit west = of Tim Hortons along Hwy. 1.=A0</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: 14.0px Arial"><b>APR. 9, 2009</b> - I checked out the<b> = </b>planted<b> HAZELNUT or FILBERT?</b> at Hilda & Mark Taylor's old = property near the top of Chestnut Ave. in Wolfville -- see April 4/09, = when I reported the male catkins open but no apparent female flowers.=A0 = Well, now there are quite tiny <b>FEMALE FLOWERS </b>showing if one = looks closely -- they are dark purple? and much less apparent than the = gorgeous but small red flowers on wild beaked hazelnut.=A0 The species = or variety of this planted <b>HAZELNUT or FILBERT?</b> is yet to be = confirmed (my encyclopedia of garden plants lists at least four planted = species of the genus <i>Corylus</i>).=A0 Hilda told me that they used to = get hazelnuts/filberts from that plant, and therefore there must have = been female flowers, too.</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: = 14.0px Arial"><b>APR. 10, 2009</b> - Sunny and semi-warm today (up to 10 = C. in a.m.), a gorgeous Spring day! =A0</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: 14.0px Arial">Our adult = <b>WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW</b> is still at our feeders, with 2 = white-throated sparrows.</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: = 14.0px Arial">At the Blomidon Inn in Wolfville, a <b>BLACK-CAPPED = CHICKADEE</b> was <b>SINGING </b>(phee-bee-bee) very persistently, with = one song quickly following the previous song, in a long = series.</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: 14.0px Arial">Oodles of = <b>CROCUSES</b> now everywhere and all open, of several colours, and = happily attended by<b> LOTS OF HONEY BEES</b> -- on April 6 I learned a = lot from <b>Dick Rogers'</b> public presentation on the health of and = risks to honey bees, to the N.S. Institute of Health -- and see the = April 2009 issue of Scientific American for a good and thorough article = on this, concluding that the <b>Colony Collapse Disorder</b> is very = complex and has many contributing causes, which have to be monitored and = managed.</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: 14.0px Arial">Other flowers = were <b>SNOWDROPS</b>, blue <b>SCILLA or its look-alikes</b>, and = <b>COLTSFOOT</b>.=A0 The latter were abundant along Oak Avenue in = Wolfville, where "Jean Timpa's"<b> DAPHNE</b> bushes are showing flower = colour but the flowers are not quite open (very soon!). = =A0</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: 14.0px Arial">In the Oak Avenue = cattail marsh by the railroad tracks, there were 2 male <b>RED-WINGED = BLACKBIRDS</b> (together, and one sang once), and a very cooperative = <b>SWAMP SPARROW</b> came to my pishing and posed for a minute or so -- = too bad I wasn't leading a field trip there!=A0 Also a <b>GREAT BLUE = HERON</b> flew over downtown Wolfville.=A0 I couldn't see any obvious = raven nest in the Oak Ave. area today.</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"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: = 14px;"><br></span></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: 12.0px 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: = 12.0px 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: = 12.0px 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: 12.0px = 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: = 12.0px 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: = 12.0px 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: 12.0px 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: 12.0px Helvetica">"In = wildness is the preservation of the world" -- Henry David = Thoreau</font></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: 14.0px Arial">=A0</font></div><div><font = class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4"><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: = 14px;"><br></span></font></div> </body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_DemOPnYaSdtjs8NPfXTDbw)--
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