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--Boundary_(ID_Gd+vfBURBraEDSkvWYqEUg) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Thanks, Dick, and I will pass along this info' to NatureNS naturalists. Cheers from Jim On 11-Sep-11, at 12:17 PM, Dekker wrote: > Jim, > > During summer (August), young Merlins routinely catch dragonflies, > one after the other, often eating them on the wing. > Fledgling Peregrines indulge in the same sport. > D. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: James W. Wolford > To: Dick Dekker > Sent: September 10, 2011 3:38 PM > Subject: Trail into Jack's Lake > > Dick, can you comment on merlins feeding on odonates? Cheers from Jim > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Bob McDonald <bobathome@hfx.eastlink.ca> >> Date: September 10, 2011 6:09:33 PM ADT >> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca >> Subject: [NatureNS] Trail into Jack's Lake >> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca >> >> Donald MacLaughlin and I walked the water line trail (it's all >> uphill as well!) accessed just at the exit from highway 102 at >> Hammonds Plains Rd in HRM yesterday late afternoon. Our >> destination was Jack's Lake. The gated track is wide (at first I >> thought that it was a logging road) and made for easy walking. >> Unfortunately, highway noise was never far away until we reached >> an intersection where we turned west towards the Lake. Birds were >> few although the first bird we saw was a Merlin, apparently >> feeding on large dragonflies, present in large numbers along the >> road. They were unidentified darners,Aeshna sp. Have others seen >> Merlins feeding on odonates? >> >> Later, we saw large numbers of American Goldfinch (perhaps 50-60, >> maybe more) which appeared to be feeding on the seeds of Black >> Knapweed, the predominant floral species in the area. We saw the >> same group on our way out. We attempted to hike around Jack's >> Lake but the bridge over a particularly wet spot was unusable. >> >> As Blake implies in his message, goldenrods and asters were prolific. >> >> Goldenrods seen and identified - Downy (Solidago puberula), >> Canada, Rough-stemmed (S. rugosa), Grey or Old Field, Grass Leaved >> (Euthamia graminifolia), Silver-rod or White Goldenrod (S. >> bicolor) and Bog. All are common around HRM. >> >> The asters I'm still working on but ones I'm sure of are Calico, >> New York, Purple-stemmed, Tall White, Whorled Wood and Bog. >> >> I can send a GPS track to anyone who could handle the software (I >> use Map Source). >> >> Cheers, >> Bob McDonald >> Halifax > > --Boundary_(ID_Gd+vfBURBraEDSkvWYqEUg) 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; "> Thanks, Dick, and I will pass along this info' to NatureNS naturalists. = Cheers from Jim<div><br><div><div>On 11-Sep-11, at 12:17 PM, = Dekker wrote:</div><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: = separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: = normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: = normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: = 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; = "><div>Jim,</div><div> </div><div>During summer (August), young = Merlins routinely catch dragonflies, one after the other, often = eating them on the wing.</div><div>Fledgling Peregrines indulge in = the same sport.</div><div>D. </div><blockquote = style=3D"padding-right: 0px; padding-left: 5px; margin-left: 5px; = border-left-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; = border-left-style: solid; margin-right: 0px; "><div style=3D"font: = normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; ">----- Original Message = -----</div><div style=3D"background-image: initial; = background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; = background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); font: = normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; background-position: initial = initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><b>From:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = title=3D"jimwolford@eastlink.ca" = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">James W. Wolford</a></div><div = style=3D"font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>To:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = title=3D"ddekker1@telus.net" href=3D"mailto:ddekker1@telus.net">Dick = Dekker</a></div><div style=3D"font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal = arial; "><b>Sent:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>September 10, 2011 3:38 = PM</div><div style=3D"font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; = "><b>Subject:</b><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>Trail = into Jack's Lake</div><div><br></div>Dick, can you comment on merlins = feeding on odonates? Cheers from Jim<br><div><br><div>Begin = forwarded message:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" color=3D"#000000" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, = 0, 0); "><b>From:<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Bob McDonald <<a = href=3D"mailto:bobathome@hfx.eastlink.ca">bobathome@hfx.eastlink.ca</a>>= ;</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = color=3D"#000000" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Date:<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: normal normal