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--Boundary_(ID_7ensmbCnYhjDxCpkL1jjWQ) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT FEB. 24, 2010 - In early afternoon I walked in east Wolfville with my binoculars for nearly an hour in beautifully sunny & warm conditions (6-7 C.), but, except for a single red squirrel and 4 bl.-c. chickadees, all other non-human animals must have been napping. The red squirrel was very approachable and was consuming hips of multiflora rose, which is hyper-abundant in Wolfville. FEB. 28, 2010 - Yesterday I heard a cardinal singing somewhere audible from my back yard, and today a song sparrow was singing often. We haven't seen any flickers now for at least 10 days or 2 weeks, and I wonder if they haven't begun moving northward?? Yesterday in our neighborhood a raccoon was very obvious all day, curled up in a big ball and well out on a branch of a tall planted poplar. MARCH 1, 2010 - This morning at home there was a flock of about 40 cedar waxwings, with a few goldfinches. Our feeder cardinals seem to be down to just 2 or 3 (1m,1f seen today); I wonder if our winter flock (a family) has now mostly dispersed away from the home territory?? And our red-breasted nuthatch is still present. Brenda & Bill Thexton saw approximately 1000 Canada geese at Wellington Dyke in mid-afternoon. MAR. 3, 2010 - I was wrong about the cardinals two days ago. This morning right after I put out the feeders (Wolfville's raccoons plus my arrangement of feeders force me to take them away overnight), I was invaded by 6 cardinals (3m,3f) -- thus our "flock" is still partly intact. During the noon hour I checked three different BALD EAGLE NESTS for any indications of nesting activities: (1) no eagles seen at the Noggins Farm site (Greenwich); (2) the adult female was sitting in the Canard Road nest, but this could be just pre-incubation behaviour that precedes the egg-laying and actual incubation, according to the Stokes field guide series on bird behaviour (3 volumes -- the one with the bald eagle(s) on the front cover (vol. 3?); (3) at the Eye Road site east of Wolfville on route to Grand Pre, the two adult eagles were perched side-by-side adjacent to the nest, and, as I watched, the smaller male hopped up on the female's back and they copulated for a few seconds, then resumed sitting together. 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_7ensmbCnYhjDxCpkL1jjWQ) 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>FEB. 24, 2010 </b>- In early afternoon = I walked in east Wolfville with my binoculars for nearly an hour = in<b> beautifully sunny & warm</b> conditions (6-7 C.), = but, except for a single red squirrel and 4 bl.-c. chickadees, all other = non-human animals must have been napping.</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; ">The <b>red squirrel</b> was very = approachable and was <b>consuming hips of multiflora rose</b>, = which is hyper-abundant 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; "><b>FEB. 28, 2010</b> - Yesterday I heard = a <b>cardinal singing</b> somewhere audible from my back yard, = and today a <b>song sparrow was = singing</b> often.</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; ">We haven't seen = any<b> flickers</b> now for at least 10 days or 2 weeks, and I = wonder if they haven't begun moving northward??</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; ">Yesterday in our neighborhood = a <b>raccoon</b> was very obvious all day, curled up in a big = ball and well out on a branch of a tall planted poplar.</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; "><b>MARCH 1, 2010</b> - This morning at = home there was a flock of about 40 <b>cedar waxwings</b>, with a = few <b>goldfinches</b>. Our = feeder <b>cardinals </b>seem to be down to just 2 or 3 (1m,1f = seen today); I wonder if our winter flock (a family) has now mostly = dispersed away from the home territory?? And = our <b>red-breasted nuthatch</b> is still = present.</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; ">Brenda & Bill Thexton = saw approximately 1000 <b>Canada geese</b> at Wellington Dyke = in mid-afternoon.</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; "><b>MAR. 3, 2010</b> - = I was wrong about the <b>cardinals</b> two days = ago. This morning right after I put out the feeders = (Wolfville's raccoons plus my arrangement of feeders force me to take = them away overnight), I was invaded by <b>6 = cardinals</b> (3m,3f) -- thus our "flock" is still partly = intact.</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; ">During the noon hour I = checked three different <b>BALD EAGLE NESTS </b>for any = indications of nesting activities:</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; = ">(1) no eagles seen at the <b>Noggins Farm = site</b> (Greenwich);</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; ">(2) the adult female was = sitting in the <b>Canard Road nest,</b> but this could be just = pre-incubation behaviour that precedes the egg-laying and actual = incubation, according to the Stokes field guide series on bird behaviour = (3 volumes -- the one with the bald eagle(s) on the front cover (vol. = 3?);</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; ">(3) at the <b>Eye = Road site east of Wolfville </b>on route to Grand Pre, the two = adult eagles were perched side-by-side adjacent to the nest, = and, as I watched, the smaller male hopped up on the female's back and = they <b>copulated</b> for a few seconds, then resumed sitting = together.</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: 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> </body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_7ensmbCnYhjDxCpkL1jjWQ)--
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