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--Boundary_(ID_BiZNQJTgySnqVxKMG3yhSQ) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT In addition to what Richard Stern wrote and in answer to Andy's question below: In the 1970s and 1980s, but I think not predictably since then, there used to be small numbers of brant that passed through the Wolfville- to-Grand Pre area each Spring in May. In recent years a few have been seen, along with late purple sandpipers, by the Can. Wildlife Service personnel on their surveys of colonially nesting birds on Boot Island in early July every other year or so? Those sightings should be available from the CWS in Sackville, N.B. Richard mentioned eelgrass as an attractant, and I'm ashamed to not know whether we have ever had eelgrass in the southern bight of the Minas Basin. Perhaps Sherman Bleakney can comment on that, and on whether perhaps we used to have eelgrass here but do not any more? I have also copied this to Glenys Gibson and David Garbary, who might know some of this? I know that alien green crabs can be very hard on eelgrass, since they uproot it when foraging, and we have had green crabs here at least since the early 1970s if not much longer. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville Begin forwarded message: > From: Laurie Murison <gmwhale@nbnet.nb.ca> > Date: March 11, 2010 9:33:55 AM AST > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] brant > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > Another area in the Bay of Fundy is the Grand Manan archipelago > with large numbers of brant stopping over. The numbers are > starting to swell now but some start showing up in early February > and remain well into the spring. > > Laurie Murison > Grand Manan, NB > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Stern > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 7:19 AM > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] brant > > Hi, > > A very few show up in scattered locations, but they're very > particular about having eel-grass, and seem to be faithful to CSI > and Brier Island and Freeport in late winter and Spring in large > numbers. > > Richard > > Sent from my iPhone > > Richard Stern > Port Williams > NS > > sternrichard@gmail. com > > On 2010-03-10, at 10:47 PM, "andy dean" <aadean@ns.sympatico.ca> > wrote: > >> Hi John, >> Your report has us curious....do brant show up on this side of the >> province.....i.e. The Fundy shores ? Anyone? >> >> Andy and Lelia Dean >> 86 Baden Powell Drive >> Kentville, N.S. >> (902) 678-6243 >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: John Nickerson >> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca >> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 2:31 PM >> Subject: [NatureNS] brant >> >> >> >> 1000 brant seen at the hawk flats today >> >> 45 brant at daniels head also 1 rough legged hawk >> >> >> >> johnny nickerson sandra >> nickerson >> >> Take your contacts everywhere. Try Messenger for mobile > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2734 - Release Date: > 03/10/10 03:33:00 --Boundary_(ID_BiZNQJTgySnqVxKMG3yhSQ) 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; "> In addition to what Richard Stern wrote and in answer to Andy's = question below: <div><br></div><div>In the 1970s and 1980s, but I = think not predictably since then, there used to be small numbers of = brant that passed through the Wolfville-to-Grand Pre area each Spring in = May. In recent years a few have been seen, along with late purple = sandpipers, by the Can. Wildlife Service personnel on their surveys of = colonially nesting birds on Boot Island in early July every other year = or so? Those sightings should be available from the CWS in = Sackville, N.B.<div><br></div><div>Richard mentioned eelgrass as an = attractant, and I'm ashamed to not know whether we have ever had = eelgrass in the southern bight of the Minas Basin. Perhaps Sherman = Bleakney can comment on that, and on whether perhaps we used to have = eelgrass here but do not any more? I have also copied this to = Glenys Gibson and David Garbary, who might know some of this? I = know that alien green crabs can be very hard on eelgrass, since they = uproot it when foraging, and we have had green crabs here at least since = the early 1970s if not much longer.<br><div><br></div><div>Cheers from = Jim in Wolfville<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">Laurie Murison <<a = href=3D"mailto:gmwhale@nbnet.nb.ca">gmwhale@nbnet.nb.ca</a>></font></di= v><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">March 11, 2010 9:33:55 AM AST</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font>= </div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: [NatureNS] = brant</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font>= </div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: = rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: = normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: = normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: = 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><font size=3D"2" = face=3D"Arial">Another area in the Bay of Fundy is the Grand Manan = archipelago with large numbers of brant stopping over. The numbers = are starting to swell now but some start showing up in early February = and remain well into the spring.</font></div><div><font size=3D"2" = face=3D"Arial"></font> </div><div><font size=3D"2" = face=3D"Arial">Laurie Murison</font></div><div><font size=3D"2" = face=3D"Arial">Grand Manan, NB</font></div><blockquote = style=3D"border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; = border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px; = margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; "><div style=3D"font: normal normal = normal 10pt/normal arial; ">----- Original Message -----</div><div = style=3D"font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; background-image: = initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; = -webkit-background-clip: initial; -webkit-background-origin: initial; = background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); background-position: initial = initial; "><b>From:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = title=3D"sternrichard@gmail.com" = href=3D"mailto:sternrichard@gmail.com">Stern</a></div><div style=3D"font: = normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>To:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = title=3D"naturens@chebucto.ns.ca" = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></div><= div style=3D"font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; = "><b>Sent:</b><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday,= March 11, 2010 7:19 AM</div><div style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Subject:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [NatureNS] = brant</div><div><br></div><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>A very few = show up in scattered locations, but they're very particular about having = eel-grass, and seem to be faithful to CSI and Brier Island and Freeport = in late winter and Spring in large = numbers.<br><br></div><div>Richard</div><div><br>Sent from my = iPhone<div><br></div><div>Richard Stern</div><div>Port = Williams</div><div>NS</div><div><br></div><div><a = href=3D"mailto:sternrichard@gmail">sternrichard@gmail</a>. = com</div></div><div><br>On 2010-03-10, at 10:47 PM, "andy dean" <<a = href=3D"mailto:aadean@ns.sympatico.ca">aadean@ns.sympatico.ca</a>> = wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div><div><font = face=3D"Arial"> Hi John,</font></div><div><font = face=3D"Arial">Your report has us curious....do brant show up on = this side of the province.....i.e. The Fundy shores ? = Anyone?</font></div><div><font = face=3D"Arial"></font> </div><div><font face=3D"Arial">Andy and = Lelia Dean<br>86 Baden Powell Drive<br>Kentville, N.S.<br>(902) = 678-6243<br></font></div><blockquote style=3D"border-left-color: rgb(0, = 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: = 5px; padding-right: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; "><div = style=3D"font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; ">----- Original = Message -----</div><div style=3D"font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal = arial; background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; = background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; = -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, = 228); background-position: initial initial; "><b>From:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = title=3D"jonsannick@hotmail.com" = href=3D"mailto:jonsannick@hotmail.com">John Nickerson</a></div><div = style=3D"font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>To:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = title=3D"naturens@chebucto.ns.ca" = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca"></a><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></div><= div style=3D"font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; = "><b>Sent:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday, March 10, 2010 = 2:31 PM</div><div style=3D"font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; = "><b>Subject:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>[NatureNS] = brant</div><div><br></div> <br> <br> 1000 brant seen at = the hawk flats today<br> <br> 45 brant at daniels head also 1 = rough legged = hawk<br> <br> <br> <br> = &n= bsp; &nbs= p; johnny = nickerson sandra nickerson<br><br><hr>Take your = contacts everywhere.<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = href=3D"http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=3D9712958" target=3D"_new">Try = Messenger for mobile</a></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></div><hr><div><br = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br>No virus found in this = incoming message.<br>Checked by AVG - <a = href=3D"http://www.avg.com">www.avg.com</a><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>Version: 9.0.733 / = Virus Database: 271.1.1/2734 - Release Date: 03/10/10 = 03:33:00<br></blockquote></span></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div><= /body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_BiZNQJTgySnqVxKMG3yhSQ)--
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