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--Boundary_(ID_KD8tZSOQ4gKXaFwkZirnsw) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT APR. 25, 2010 - Paper or white birch catkins are now open in Wolfville. APR. 26, 2010 - Yesterday by the end of the afternoon, several pink- flowering magnolia trees had opened up most of their flowers and were close to at their best for this year. Today, along the Wolfville rail trail, shadbush (serviceberry, Juneberry) flower-buds were opening (extremely early, I think), and pin cherry flower-buds are swollen and showing a hint of white. APR. 27, 2010 - Stella's Pond (D.U. pond, M. Dyke Rd.): Canada goose still apparently incubating eggs in nest on east end of island. I didn't notice the other goose, but I didn't really search for it. Gesner's Pond (M. Dyke Rd., s. of Church St.): 2 double-crested cormorants. Also, after being chastised by Patricia Chalmers on my field trip about forgetting that Abraham Gesner was the first to manufacture kerosene, I made a point of studying the memorial plaque in his name across the road from the pond. He was a geologist and physician but apparently also a naturalist, whose collection was the basis for a nat. hist. museum in St. John and later for the provincial New Brunswick Museum of Natural History. I remarked on my field trip on Sunday that the name "Gesner's Pond" might entice people to find out more about him, and it worked for me! Kidston's Pond (along Church St. east from M. Dyke Rd.): along the north shore was a single Canada goose; I suspect that perhaps its mate is on a nest?somewhere along the edge of the pond? (no islands in this pond). Port Williams sewage ponds: about 75+ tree swallows with at least one barn swallow, a m,f pair of ring-necked ducks, 5 male mallards (no doubt there are a few female mallards on nests along the pond edges or nearby), and several red-winged blackbirds. 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_KD8tZSOQ4gKXaFwkZirnsw) 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>APR. 25, 2010 - Paper or white birch = catkins</b> are now open 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>APR. 26, 2010</b> - Yesterday by the = end of the afternoon, several <b>pink-flowering = magnolia</b> trees had opened up most of their flowers and were = close to at their best for this 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; ">Today, along the Wolfville rail = trail, <b>shadbush (serviceberry, Juneberry)</b> flower-buds = were opening (extremely early, I think), and <b>pin = cherry</b> flower-buds are swollen and showing a hint of = white.</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>APR. 27, = 2010</b> - <b>Stella's Pond</b> (D.U. pond, M. Dyke = Rd.): <b>Canada goose</b> still apparently incubating eggs in = nest on east end of island. I didn't notice the other goose, = but I didn't really search for it.</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>Gesner's Pond</b> (M. Dyke Rd., s. of Church St.): = 2 <b>double-crested cormorants</b>.</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; ">Also, after being chastised by Patricia = Chalmers on my field trip about forgetting that <b>Abraham = Gesner</b> was the first to manufacture<b> kerosene</b>, I = made a point of studying the <b>memorial plaque</b> in his = name across the road from the pond. He was a geologist and = physician but apparently also a naturalist, whose collection was the = basis for a nat. hist. museum in St. John and later for the provincial = New Brunswick Museum of Natural History. I remarked on my = field trip on Sunday that the name "Gesner's Pond" might entice people = to find out more about him, and it worked for me! </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>Kidston's Pond </b>(along Church St. = east from M. Dyke Rd.): along the north shore was a <b>single = Canada goose</b>; I suspect that perhaps its mate is on = a <b>nest?</b>somewhere along the edge of