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--Boundary_(ID_WHf86SG1BYNmUe5/Xh4+fA) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT SEPT. 10, 2010 - A n. cardinal is singing near our back yard. For several days in Wolfville I have been observing the big tan crane flies that are associated with lawns -- Tipula paludosa. I have also been meaning to write for weeks that in Wolfville this year there seems to be very little sign of tar spot fungus on the leaves of Norway maples. Perhaps this is because of the very dry Spring this year?? ----------------------- Today on Maritime Noon on CBC Radio, the first guest was John Klymko (Conservation Data Centre in Sackville, N.B.) about how the first year of the Maritimes Butterfly Atlas project went. John said that 200 people signed up (super) but that weather was poor for the workshops he hoped to hold in various locations. Nevertheless, the Atlas is off to a great start, and he mentioned just a few highlights: a Dorcas copper was seen somewhere in Cape Breton (only one other record exists in Maritimes, somewhere in N.B.)(this is a species that is closely associated with shrubby cinquefoil, which is both a native species and a garden plant). He also said it was a good year for elfin butterflies, and he mentioned three different species. He also mentioned Canadian tiger swallowtails, white admirals, and common ringlets (the latter two are at or at the end of their second generations for this year). He didn't mention Clarence Stevens Jr.'s apparent sighting of a buckeye butterfly at Hartlen Point? just after Hurricane Earl passed through. Next on Maritime Noon was Chris Fogarty about ocean temperatures -- I think he said that the ocean was relatively very warm at 20+ degrees C. during Earl's arrival, but that the ocean very quickly cooled to 16 + C. right after the storm passed. --------------------- About 100+ Canada geese were flying just south of the Canard River along Hwy. 358 (n. of Pt. Wms.) at 11 a.m. I visited Canard Pond briefly during noon hour and saw a male wood duck and 3 double-crested cormorants etc. Also at Canard Pond I heard quite a few shotgun blasts nearby (I guess the waterfowl season began very recently?). ------------------------ Later today I couldn't resist checks of the very high tide (2:50 p.m.). At The Guzzle at ne. Grand Pre, small flocks of "peeps" were flying from east to west (see below), and just a few fishers were catching small striped bass (and releasing them). Then I checked the shore at Jean Merks' home (east end of Evangeline Beach), and I could see hundreds of peeps roosting on the big rocks just east of her home (no beach for them today). Then I quickly checked the canteen area (Evangeline Beach) where the signage and photos are for the shorebird phenomena, and there again were hundreds of peeps roosting on the rocks and getting disturbed by photographers (and by myself). Among the small sandpipers were semipalmated plovers which made up a small percentage of the total, which I guessed at 2000+ peeps. This guess included numerous flocks that were flying along the shore from east to west. Probably the peeps were roosting on the big imported rocks along the main dyke all the way from the area of the Wolfville sewage ponds (not checked today) to The Guzzle. Thus there could have been still a quite large number of total peeps. I only looked at one plowed field, along the main road across the dykelands, but there were no shorebirds at all at high tide. When the high tide is very high as it has been for several days now (New Moon plus Perigee occurred together, and Sherm Williams tells me the Perigee was a very close one this month, i.e. the distance of Moon to Earth), many of the shorebirds of all sizes and kinds have to roost away from the shores, in fields that are either plowed or even ones that are vegetated with crops etc. Film PHOTOS taken today at the Gaspereau River along Hwy. 101, and in Wolfville Harbour (3-shot panorama), at high tide. At our feeders there is a "new" juvenile cardinal, presumably a female from a late brood, which is very drab and had a darkish beak. --Boundary_(ID_WHf86SG1BYNmUe5/Xh4+fA) 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"Arial" size=3D"5" style=3D"font: 17.3px Arial"><b>SEPT. 10, = 2010</b> - A <b>n. cardinal</b> is <b>singing</b> near our back = yard. </font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 17.3px/normal Arial; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"5" style=3D"font: = 17.3px Arial">For several days in Wolfville I have been observing the = big tan <b>crane flies</b> that are associated with lawns -- <b>Tipula = paludosa</b>.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 17.3px/normal Arial; min-height: 21px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"5" style=3D"font: = 17.3px Arial">I have also been meaning to write for weeks that in = Wolfville this year there seems to be very little sign of<b> tar spot = fungus</b> on the leaves of <b>Norway maples</b>. Perhaps this is = because of the very dry Spring this year??</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"5" style=3D"font: = 17.3px Arial">-----------------------</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"5" style=3D"font: = 17.3px Arial">Today on <b>Maritime Noon</b> on CBC Radio, the first = guest was <b>John Klymko</b> (Conservation Data Centre in Sackville, = N.B.) about how the first year of the <b>Maritimes Butterfly Atlas = </b>project went. John said that 200 people signed up (super) but = that weather was poor for the workshops he hoped to hold in various = locations. Nevertheless, the Atlas is off to a great start, and he = mentioned just a few highlights: a <b>Dorcas copper </b>was seen = somewhere in <b>Cape Breton</b> (only one other record exists in = Maritimes, somewhere in N.B.)(this is a species that is closely = associated with <b>shrubby cinquefoil</b>, which is both a native = species and a garden plant). He also said it was a go