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--Boundary_(ID_VsrO/bmXsfPUUsYGHKqw4g) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT MAR. 28, 2010 - In our back yard at home, on a cold, winter-like day at +3 C. with snow on the ground and a cold moderate breeze, I was delighted to hear very close to our yard a repeatedly singing n. cardinal. Previous to today, the few songs I had heard were much more distant. At our feeders were 2 n. flickers (m,f), 2 red-breasted nuthatches, 5 starlings attacking the bird-pie and suet, a red squiirrel (who has a burrow system begun by a Norway rat that didn't survive long ago), etc. We saw a flying flock of 15 robins heading east (to roost) in the evening as we ate supper, and another 10 robins were around our house a few hours earlier. MAR. 29, 2010 - Jake MacDonald reports having seen a pileated woodpecker in Port Williams near the north end of the river bridge. MAR. 30, 2010 - Add 2 rock pigeons to the mix of birds at our feeders. Two adult bald eagles at the Noggins/Greenwich nest, but no eagle actually in the nest yet. I wonder if the female might be a young adult who has not nested before and is therefore behind other pairs that have been probably incubating eggs for a while now? In Wolfville I walked to check on Jean Timpa's Daphne bushes that are along the dirt extension of Oak Avenue. Their flower-buds show the petal colour of deep pink and clearly will be opening up perhaps very soon, with the warmth of the present and coming days. 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_VsrO/bmXsfPUUsYGHKqw4g) 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>MAR. 28, 2010</b> - In our back yard at = home, on a cold, winter-like day at +3 C. with snow on the ground and a = cold moderate breeze, I was delighted to hear very close to our yard a = repeatedly<b> singing n. cardinal</b>. Previous to = today, the few songs I had heard were much more = distant.</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; ">At our feeders were = 2 <b>n. flickers</b> (m,f), 2 <b>red-breasted = nuthatches</b>, 5 <b>starlings </b>attacking the bird-pie and = suet, a <b>red squiirrel</b> (who has a burrow system begun by = a Norway rat that didn't survive long ago), 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: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; ">We saw a flying flock of <b>15 = robins</b> heading east (to roost) in the evening as we ate supper, = and another <b>10 robins</b> were around our house a few hours = earlier.</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. 29, = 2010</b> - Jake MacDonald reports having seen a <b>pileated = woodpecker</b> in Port Williams near the north end of the river = bridge.</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. 30, = 2010</b> - Add 2 <b>rock pigeons</b> to the mix of birds = at our feeders.</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; ">Two adult<b> bald = eagles</b> at the <b>Noggins/Greenwich nest,</b> but no = eagle actually in the nest yet. I wonder if the female might = be a young adult who has not nested before and is therefore behind other = pairs that have been probably incubating eggs for a while = now?</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; ">In Wolfville I walked to = check on Jean Timpa's <b>Daphne bushes</b> that are along the = dirt extension of Oak = Avenue. Their<b> flower-buds </b>show the petal = colour of deep pink and clearly will be opening up perhaps very soon, = with the warmth of the present and coming days.</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 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> </body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_VsrO/bmXsfPUUsYGHKqw4g)--
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