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--Boundary_(ID_8nFurFi55l3tt2JEE8NuGQ) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT OCT. 2, 2009 - At home today I heard songs from a purple finch (unseen near a feeder hidden by leaves now) and a song sparrow. Below and on the main feeders were 4 n. cardinals (an adult male, a juv. male, and 2 juv. females). In Canard Pond as I listened again to Maritime Noon (three cheers for CBC Radio!), there were oodles of surface-feeding ducks concentrated in the northeast corner of the visible pond: 50++ green- winged teals, 6+ Am. wigeons, 4 male n. pintails (either immatures or coming out of eclipse plumage?), 1 male gadwall, 1 male n. shoveler (again either immature or coming out of eclipse), and, of course, uncounted but common mallards and black ducks. In the area, along Saxon St. and e. Canard Rd., I saw quite a few blooming Jerusalem artichokes (Helianthus tuberosa). I checked Wolfville Harbour 1.5 hours after high tide, just when Judy Tufts had just done the same thing. My sightings, of course, were very similar to hers (all as usual along the rock-mud interface along the RR tracks): 16+ greater yellowlegs (all the ones I saw and heard were clearly greaters), 8+ semipalmated plovers, and 3 "peeps", which were 2 least sandpipers (one was hopping on one leg while foraging with a hanging injured second leg) and a single semipalmated sandpiper. Normally we would partly use leg colour to distinguish the peeps, but on harbour intertidal mud all the shorebirds, even many of the yellowlegs, have dark legs! Judy told me that Port Williams sewage ponds now apparently hold 6 scaups? 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_8nFurFi55l3tt2JEE8NuGQ) 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>OCT. = 2, 2009</b> - At home today I heard <b>songs</b> from a <b>purple = finch</b> (unseen near a feeder hidden by leaves now) and a <b>song = sparrow</b>. Below and on the main feeders were <b>4 n. cardinals = </b>(an adult male, a juv. male, and 2 juv. females).</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 = <b>Canard Pond</b> as I listened again to Maritime Noon (three cheers = for CBC Radio!), there were <b>oodles of surface-feeding ducks</b> = concentrated in the northeast corner of the visible pond: 50++ = <b>green-winged teals</b>, 6+ <b>Am. wigeons</b>, 4 male<b> n. = pintails</b> (either immatures or coming out of eclipse plumage?), 1 = male <b>gadwall,</b> 1 male <b>n. shoveler</b> (again either immature or = coming out of eclipse), and, of course, uncounted but common = <b>mallards</b> and <b>black ducks</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">In the = area, along Saxon St. and e. Canard Rd., I saw quite a few <b>blooming = Jerusalem artichokes </b><i>(Helianthus tuberosa)</i>. = </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 checked <b>Wolfville Harbour</b> 1.5 hours after = high tide, just when Judy Tufts had just done the same thing. My = sightings, of course, were very similar to hers (all as usual along the = rock-mud interface along the RR tracks): 16+ <b>greater yellowlegs</b> = (all the ones I saw and heard were clearly greaters), 8+ <b>semipalmated = plovers</b>, and 3 <b>"peeps"</b>, which were 2 <b>least sandpipers</b> = (one was hopping on one leg while foraging with a hanging injured second = leg) and a single <b>semipalmated sandpiper</b>. Normally we would = partly use leg colour to distinguish the peeps, but on harbour = intertidal mud all the shorebirds, even many of the yellowlegs, have = dark legs!</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">Judy told me that Port Williams sewage ponds now = apparently hold 6 <b>scaups</b>?</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; "><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>></fon= t></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"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">------------------------</font></div><div><br></div></div> </body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_8nFurFi55l3tt2JEE8NuGQ)--
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