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--Boundary_(ID_sNfiaEztT47/Em0rN9nSoA) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT DEC. 21, 2009 - In early afternoon, I drove to North Grand Pre (Long Island) to try to find the N. MOCKINGBIRD that has been reported there. Sure enough, just above its large clump of multiflora rose loaded with delectable? rose-hips, the mockingbird perched just above them in an obvious spot (advertising that this spot was his?). The locality is just west (left) of the paved T-junction at the north end of the main Grand Pre road through the dykelands. The bird was directly just north of the first house from the junction. This mockingbird qualifies as a Count Week bird for the Wolfville Count on Dec. 19. Bernard Forsythe says that another wintering mockingbird hangs out near the planted Canada? holly berries just south of the Wolfville Wharf, along the railroad tracks. ---------------------- Bernard phoned me this morning about an interesting finding this morning, in an orchard somewhere not far from his home (Wolfville Ridge). He found an area of tracks of coyote(s), an area where the tracks etc. had matted the snow down densely, and nearby an intact dead short-tailed shrew that had been abandoned there. He suspects that one or more coyotes caught the shrew and just played with it a bit, then decided not to eat it. All shrews are reputed to be bad- tasting, especially to cats that catch them. Birds, on the other hand, are much less fastidious about what they eat. Thus Bernard took the shrew home and will offer it tonight? to his back-yard barred owl(s), which will probably just swallow it whole with no thought of taste! -------------------- Regarding our Wolfville Xmas Count on Dec. 19, I got this note from Doug Linzey concerning 3 WHITE GEESE (SNOW GEESE?) seen at the Canning Aboiteau at about 3 p.m.: "About 3 pm we saw three white geese at the Canning aboiteau. Unfortunately I didn't have my binocs but they matched Snow Goose in every respect (bills, size) except that I didn't see any black wingtips. They were pretty much hunkered down, not moving much and slightly hidden in the grass. "Is it more likely that they were domestic geese? Or did someone else report these birds more definitively?" --------------------- 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_sNfiaEztT47/Em0rN9nSoA) 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: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; "><b>DEC. 21, 2009 </b>- In early afternoon, = I drove to North Grand Pre (Long Island) to try to find the <b>N. = MOCKINGBIRD</b> that has been reported there. Sure = enough, just above its large clump of multiflora rose loaded with = delectable? rose-hips, the mockingbird perched just above them in an = obvious spot (advertising that this spot was his?). The = locality is just west (left) of the paved T-junction at the north end of = the main Grand Pre road through the dykelands. The bird was = directly just north of the first house from the = junction. This mockingbird qualifies as a <b>Count Week = bird </b>for the Wolfville Count on Dec. 19.</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; ">Bernard Forsythe says that <b>another = wintering mockingbird</b> hangs out near the planted Canada? holly = berries just south of the Wolfville Wharf, along the railroad = tracks.</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; = ">----------------------</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; ">Bernard phoned me this morning about an = interesting finding this morning, in an orchard somewhere not far from = his home (Wolfville Ridge). He found an area of tracks = of <b>coyote(s)</b>, an area where the tracks etc. had matted the = snow down densely, and nearby an intact dead <b>short-tailed = shrew</b> that had been abandoned there. He suspects = that one or more coyotes caught the shrew and just played with it a bit, = then decided not to eat it. All shrews are reputed to be = bad-tasting, especially to cats that catch them.</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; ">Birds, on the other hand, are much less = fastidious about what they eat. Thus Bernard took the shrew = home and will offer it tonight? to his back-yard </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; "><b>barred owl(s)</b>, = which will probably just swallow it whole with no thought of = taste!</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; = ">--------------------</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; ">Regarding our Wolfville Xmas Count on Dec. 19, = I got this note from Doug Linzey concerning <b>3 WHITE GEESE (SNOW = GEESE?)</b> seen at the Canning Aboiteau at about 3 = p.m.: </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; ">"About 3 pm we saw three = white geese at the Canning aboiteau. Unfortunately I didn't have my = binocs but they matched Snow Goose in every respect (bills, size) except = that I didn't see any black wingtips. They were pretty much hunkered = down, not moving much and slightly hidden in the grass.</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; ">"Is it more likely that they were domestic = geese? Or did someone else report these birds more = definitively?"</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; = ">---------------------</font></div><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; ">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>></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: normal normal normal = 12px/normal 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: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; = ">------------------------</font></div><div><br></div></div> </body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_sNfiaEztT47/Em0rN9nSoA)--
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