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--Boundary_(ID_kgKlO+2nYJVJGsmFeZRllA) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT JUNE 22, 2010 - In our back yard there are 2 very disturbed gray catbirds that must be nesting and perhaps now have nestlings or fledglings. They are both giving very upset-sounding loud, long buzzing notes not too different from their cat-like "mew" calls, of which I also heard a few examples. I'm puzzled by these catbirds, since I know the catbird song well yet did not hear any of it in our yard this year. So how did these birds get to this point of presumably having babies without having sung at all within earshot of my yard? JUNE 23, 2010 - CLAMMY LOCUST bushes/small trees now conspicuously in bloom in and just south of Canning and also in Wolfville (in Wolfville, 3 plants are adjacent to the Atlantic Theatre Festival building (former Acadia hockey rink). I have already mentioned BLACK LOCUST blooming in Wolfville (still true), and now I will have to look south along University Avenue south of the Irving Ctr. and Acadia Physical Plant along the east ditch for blooming BRISTLY LOCUST plants. (I did check later today and the latter is indeed very much in bloom, low along the ground under the regenerating poplars that were cut 2-3 years ago.) All three of these locust species are in the genus Robinia. JUNE 24, 2010 - In our yard today, apparently the disturbed catbirds are gone (with their fledged young??). At our feeders were a chipmunk, a red squirrel, a white-breasted nuthatch (these three are just very occasional visitors), a male and a female cardinals, a mourning dove, bl.-c. chickadees, 2 c. grackles, a few starlings, and a few song sparrows. Lisa Eye reports there are a couple of "sparrow hawks" at the cottages at Evangeline Beach, north Grand Pre, but I'll bet they are merlins, which have noisily raised family there for several years now. Lisa also reported that (in the past?) she has seen one of these hawks take a sandpiper or plover on the beach. JUNE 25, 2010 - In downtown Canning, between the Baptist Church and the Fireside Cafe along Main St., I encountered the following: a noisy raven family of both adults and loudly begging juveniles, not far from the nesting tree near Merritt Gibson's house; basswood or linden trees (some large) in bloom; striking red-flowering common yarrow (remnants of Acadian history?)(with pink- and white-flowering plants); various summer blooms like musk mallow, chicory, wild radish, etc. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville --Boundary_(ID_kgKlO+2nYJVJGsmFeZRllA) 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><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: Verdana; font-size: = 13px; "><b>JUNE 22, 2010</b></span><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; "> - In our back yard = there are </span><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: = Verdana; font-size: 13px; "><b>2 very disturbed gray = catbirds</b></span><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: = Verdana; font-size: 13px; "> that must be nesting and perhaps now have = nestlings or fledglings. They are both giving very upset-sounding = loud, long buzzing notes not too different from their cat-like "mew" = calls, of which I also heard a few examples.</span></div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana; = min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Verdana">I'm = <b>puzzled </b>by these catbirds, since I know the catbird song well yet = did not hear any of it in our yard this year. So how did these = birds get to this point of presumably having babies without having sung = at all within earshot of my yard?</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: = normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana; min-height: 16px; = "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"4" = style=3D"font: 13.0px Verdana"><b>JUNE 23, 2010</b> - </font><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-family: Verdana; font-size: = 13px; "><b>CLAMMY LOCUST</b> bushes/small trees now conspicuously <b>in = bloom </b>in and just south of Canning and also in Wolfville (in = Wolfville, 3 plants are adjacent to the Atlantic Theatre Festival = building (former Acadia hockey rink). I have already mentioned = <b>BLACK LOCUST</b> blooming in Wolfville (still true), and now I will = have to look south along University Avenue south of the Irving Ctr. and = Acadia Physical Plant along the east ditch for blooming <b>BRISTLY = LOCUST</b> plants. (I did check later today and the latter is = indeed <b>very much in bloom</b>, low along the ground under the = regenerating poplars that were cut 2-3 years ago.) All three of = these locust species are in the genus <i>Robinia</i>.</span></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana; = min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Verdana"><b>JUNE 24, = 2010</b> - In our yard today, apparently the disturbed <b>catbirds are = gone</b> (with their fledged young??). At our feeders were a = <b>chipmunk, a red squirrel, a white-breasted nuthatch</b> (these three = are just very occasional visitors), a male and a female = <b>cardinals</b>, a mourning dove, bl.-c. chickadees, 2 c. grackles, a = few starlings, and a few song sparrows.</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana; = min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Verdana">Lisa Eye = reports there are a couple of <b>"sparrow hawks"</b> at the cottages at = Evangeline Beach, north Grand Pre, but I'll bet they are <b>merlins</b>, = which have noisily raised family there for several years now. Lisa = also reported that (in the past?) she has seen one of these hawks take a = sandpiper or plover on the beach.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: = normal normal normal 13px/normal Verdana; min-height: 16px; = "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"4" = style=3D"font: 13.0px Verdana"><b>JUNE 25, 2010</b> - In downtown = <b>Canning</b>, between the Baptist Church and the Fireside Cafe along = Main St., I encountered the following: a <b>noisy raven family</b> of = both adults and loudly begging juveniles, not far from the nesting tree = near Merritt Gibson's house; basswood or linden trees (some large) in = bloom; striking <b>red-flowering common yarrow</b> (remnants of Acadian = history?)(with pink- and white-flowering plants); various summer blooms = like <b>musk mallow</b>, <b>chicory</b>, <b>wild radish</b>, = etc. </font></div></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Verdana" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px = Verdana"><br></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Verdana" = size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Verdana">Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville</font></div></body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_kgKlO+2nYJVJGsmFeZRllA)--
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