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--Boundary_(ID_T8ocbAqsfHmq66PG5OfnuA) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT SEPT. 20, 2009 - Concerning the BALD-FACED HORNET NEST reported a couple of days ago, it is still active with hornets and easily observed. It's at 15 Grandview Drive in Wolfville, Tony Napoli's yard, south of Skyway Drive, and it is only about 1.5 metres off the ground in a small tree or shrub. Although the bottom part of the nest appears to be damaged, the top part is in good shape and the hornets are sitting on the nest's outside as well as coming and going. Also noticed today were the tall NORWAY SPRUCES in the plantation along Skyway Drive in Wolfville. These trees have produced a heavy crop of big, long, green CONES, which will not only keep the red squirrels busy this Autumn but also just might attract some crossbills this winter? I re-started my bird feeding in the back yard about 4 days ago. So far I have seen a male N.CARDINAL, a juvenile cardinal, 3 blue jays, a crow, a cock pheasant, 2 black-capped chickadees, a mourning dove, 4 song sparrows, and a NORWAY RAT. SEPT. 21, 2009 - Yesterday I noticed that "BAMBOO" or JAPANESE KNOTWEED is now prolifically in bloom (and abundant) in Wolfville, and in today's Sunny & warm conditions is attracting oodles of a diversity of INSECTS: honeybees, hornets and yellowjackets of various kinds, paper wasps, honeybees, bumblebees, flies, clouded? sulphur and cabbage white butterflies, etc. SEPT. 22, 2009 - AUTUMN EQUINOX (this means that Summer is over in a lot of minds -- not mine). A CHIPMUNK appeared at our feeders for the first time ever. Two digital PHOTOS taken of the new (2009) BALD EAGLE NEST in the Evangeline Beach Campground at North Grand Pre (Long Island). The nest is in a tall spruce? along the south side of the campground. Also I checked out the BALD EAGLE NEST east of Jawbone Corner (Canard Rd.), and, as Helen Archibald reported after Storm Danny, most of the nest has fallen or is hanging vertically below the fork where the nest was, in a deciduous tree, south of Canard Road. However, two adult BALD EAGLES were perched nearby in separate trees, and now it will be interesting to see what and where they decide to rebuild. In the plowed field north of Greenwich along Hwy. 358 a single adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL was among the herring and ring-billed gulls that were resting there between their activity periods. Apparently there were FOUR of them there yesterday, including one with a very black back, perhaps indicating the intermedius subspecies, which in Europe is more southern and eastern than the U.K./Iceland graellsii subspecies which is dark-gray-backed. George Forsyth and Richard Stern reported them yesterday. In late afternoon our Wolfville feeders had 4 juvenile N. CARDINALS, perhaps all in a brood? -- one was clearly a young male, a mixture of bright red and brownish, then another separate male with much less red, and the other two were dull-coloured females, all three of them with non-pink bills (darkish but lightening). Also present were 4 blue jays, 3 mourning doves, and a song sparrow (and earlier a cock pheasant and 2 crows). Cheers from Jim in Wolfville --Boundary_(ID_T8ocbAqsfHmq66PG5OfnuA) Content-type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII 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"><b>SEPT. = 20, 2009</b> - Concerning the <b>BALD-FACED HORNET NEST </b>reported a = couple of days ago, it is still active with hornets and easily = observed. It's at 15 Grandview Drive in Wolfville, Tony Napoli's = yard, south of Skyway Drive, and it is only about 1.5 metres off the = ground in a small tree or shrub. Although the bottom part of the = nest appears to be damaged, the top part is in good shape and the = hornets are sitting on the nest's outside as well as coming and = going.</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">Also noticed today were the tall <b>NORWAY SPRUCES</b> = in the plantation along Skyway Drive in Wolfville. These trees = have produced a heavy crop of big, long, green <b>CONES</b>, which will = not only keep the red squirrels busy this Autumn but also just might = attract some crossbills this winter?</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">I re-started my bird feeding = in the back yard about 4 days ago. So far I have seen a male<b> = N.CARDINAL</b>, a juvenile cardinal, 3 blue jays, a crow, a cock = pheasant, 2 black-capped chickadees, a mourning dove, 4 song sparrows, = and a <b>NORWAY RAT</b>.</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"><b>SEPT. 21, 2009</b> - Yesterday I noticed that = <b>"BAMBOO" or JAPANESE KNOTWEED</b> is now prolifically in bloom (and = abundant) in Wolfville, and in today's Sunny & warm conditions is = attracting oodles of a diversity of<b> INSECTS</b>: honeybees, hornets = and yellowjackets of various kinds, paper wasps, honeybees, bumblebees, = flies, clouded? sulphur and cabbage white butterflies, = 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"><b>SEPT. 22, 2009 - AUTUMN EQUINOX </b>(this means = that Summer is over in a lot of minds -- not = mine). </font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><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 <b>CHIPMUNK</b> appeared at our feeders for the = first time ever.</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">Two digital <b>PHOTOS</b> taken of the new (2009) = <b>BALD EAGLE NEST</b> in the Evangeline Beach Campground at <b>North = Grand Pre </b>(Long Island). The nest is in a tall spruce? along = the south side of the campground.</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">Also I checked out the = <b>BALD EAGLE NEST</b> east of Jawbone Corner (Canard Rd.), and, as = Helen Archibald reported after Storm Danny, most of the nest has fallen = or is hanging vertically below the fork where the nest was, in a = deciduous tree, south of Canard Road. However, two adult <b>BALD = EAGLES</b> were perched nearby in separate trees, and now it will be = interesting to see what and where they decide to = rebuild.</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 the plowed field north of Greenwich along Hwy. 358 = a single adult <b>LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL</b> was among the herring and = ring-billed gulls that were resting there between their activity = periods. Apparently there were<b> FOUR</b> of them there = yesterday, including one with a very black back, perhaps indicating the = <i>intermedius </i>subspecies, which in Europe is more southern and = eastern than the U.K./Iceland <i>graellsii </i>subspecies which is = dark-gray-backed. George Forsyth and Richard Stern reported them = yesterday.</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 late afternoon our Wolfville feeders had <b>4 = juvenile</b> <b>N. CARDINALS</b>, perhaps all in a brood? -- one was = clearly a young male, a mixture of bright red and brownish, then another = separate male with much less red, and the other two were dull-coloured = females, all three of them with non-pink bills (darkish but = lightening). Also present were 4 blue jays, 3 mourning doves, and = a song sparrow (and earlier a cock pheasant and 2 = crows).</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">Cheers from Jim in Wolfville</div><div><br></div> </body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_T8ocbAqsfHmq66PG5OfnuA)--
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