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--Boundary_(ID_kMuIjSnho1wsqIo3e4Ljtg) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT APR. 13, 2010 - One cabbage white butterfly seen in Wolfville today. APR. 14, 2010 - Still no adult bald eagle visible in the nest just north of Noggins Farm Market at Greenwich. Has anyone tried to view it via the Webcam set up high in the adjacent pine tree? (very visible from Highway 1). At the Kennie farm just south of the Hortonville exit of Highway 101, I wasn't surprised that I couldn't find the all-white red-tailed hawk, which has probably now migrated back toward wherever it is used to spending the summer (location unknown). Several years ago Birdwatcher's Digest magazine had a cover article on albinistic/ leucistic red-tailed hawks, but I lost that file with the info' on the article and author, who was collecting observations/sightings of such red-tailed hawks, including true albinos. If anyone can look that up, I would be interested in contacting that author and describing our bird with the dark splotch on the top back of the head, just in case he might know any sightings that might match our Hortonville hawk. At that farm at Hortonville there was a normally-coloured red-tailed hawk today. At Wallbrook, south of Grand Pre, in the Gaspereau River were at least 5 double-crested cormorants foraging no doubt for rainbow smelt, which are running now and have been since April 1st, according to Kevin Reid of Reid's Meat Market at Melanson. Kevin says the run this year started about a week earlier than last year. At the meat market I saw a swallow fly past, probably a tree swallow? Back at Wallbrook, on the property of Kay & Ralph Stirling, I walked up to where bald eagles have nested in an old pine tree in past years (last successful nest was about 3 years ago?). But now that tree has fallen down. That pair of eagles might very well be nesting somewhere along that forested ravine, but nobody knows where. On the Stirlings' land, I saw a sharp-shinned hawk that was clearly hunting by flying slowly at treetop level, and a soaring red-tailed hawk. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville --Boundary_(ID_kMuIjSnho1wsqIo3e4Ljtg) 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; "><b><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>APR. 13, = 2010</b> - One <b>cabbage white</b> butterfly seen = in Wolfville today.</font></div></b></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = "><b><br></b></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>APR. 14, 2010</b> - Still no adult <b>bald = eagle</b> visible in the nest just north of Noggins Farm Market at = Greenwich. Has anyone tried to view it via the Webcam set up = high in the adjacent pine tree? (very visible from Highway = 1).</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 the Kennie farm just = south of the <b>Hortonville</b> exit of Highway 101, I wasn't = surprised that I couldn't find the <b>all-white red-tailed = hawk,</b> which has probably now migrated back toward wherever it = is used to spending the summer (location unknown). Several = years ago <b>Birdwatcher's Digest</b> magazine had a cover = article on albinistic/leucistic red-tailed hawks, but I lost that file = with the info' on the article and author, who was collecting = observations/sightings of such red-tailed hawks, including true = albinos. If anyone can look that up, I would be interested in = contacting that author and describing our bird with the dark splotch on = the top back of the head, just in case he might know any sightings that = might match our Hortonville hawk.</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 that farm at Hortonville there was a = normally-coloured <b>red-tailed = hawk</b> today.</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 <b>Wallbrook,</b> south of Grand Pre, in the Gaspereau = River were at least 5 <b>double-crested = cormorants</b> foraging no doubt for<b> rainbow smelt</b>, = which are running now and have been since April 1st, according to Kevin = Reid of Reid's Meat Market at <b>Melanson</b>. Kevin = says the run this year started <b>about a week = earlier </b>than last year.</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 the meat market I saw a <b>swallow</b> fly past, probably = a tree swallow?</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; ">Back = at <b>Wallbrook</b>, on the property of Kay & Ralph Stirling, I = walked up to where <b>bald eagles</b> have nested in an old = pine tree in past years (last successful nest was about 3 years = ago?). But now that tree has fallen down. That = pair of eagles might very well be nesting somewhere along that forested = ravine, but nobody knows where.</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; = ">On the Stirlings' land, I saw a <b>sharp-shinned = hawk</b> that was clearly hunting by flying slowly at treetop = level, and a soaring red-tailed hawk.</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><b><br></b></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>Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville </b></font></div><div><b><br></b></div> </body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_kMuIjSnho1wsqIo3e4Ljtg)--
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