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--Apple-Mail-16-149250697 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed MARCH 22, 2012 - Sunny and VERY WARM today, up to 27 C.!! Pat Chalmers found ELM in bloom yesterday in Halifax -- what species of elm?. So today I checked the young American? elm that I watch every year at the edge of the Acadia Arena parking lot; its flower buds are quite swollen but not open yet. Very nearby are two planted silver maples and a red maple that I also monitor every Spring: the red maple has quite swollen flower-buds, but the female silver maples have open crimson flowers/catkins. I still haven't seen coltsfoot (maybe later today?) in bloom (see below), but crocuses and snow-drops are popping up everywhere in Wolfville. And of course the planted varieties of witch-hazel continue to bloom in Wolfville's Clock Park. In mid-afternoon I checked some other sites for wild flowers, and the best site was the northeast end of Oak Avenue in Wolfville (ne. of Blomidon Inn): there were about 50 open flower-heads of coltsfoot, plus some just-open Daphne flowers (one of "Jean Timpa's bushes"), and some willow sp. "pussies" (no open flowers yet). Two other sites had just a few flower-heads of coltsfoot. In late afternoon, when my car was registering 27 C.!!, I prowled around in the shady, cooler, but sweaty Kentville Ravine, trying to find the bald eagle nest that James Churchill found several days ago. But I had no luck, despite James' excellent directions and map. I'm pitiful! I did see an adult bald eagle flying, probably from the area of the nest I couldn't find. In the Ravine, a n. flicker was calling, and I was very happy to hear a singing winter wren. And several robins were in an orchard on top beside the edge of the Ravine. Stella's Pond (n. of New Minas, by river on Middle Dyke Rd.), held 4 Canada geese, a male mallard, and 3 black ducks. Nothing but a song sparrow at the Port Williams sewage ponds. MARCH 23, 2012 - Sunny again but much cooler (13 C. in car) and very windy-cool from the north. I should have looked yesterday (very hot for two days), but at Lockhart & Ryan Park in New Minas, my annually early Mayflowers showed no flowers and not even any swollen flower-buds. Stella's Pond still has 2 pairs of Canada geese and a few mallards and black ducks, but now there is a big, fat, brown and white domestic goose too. Eagle Landing bald eagle nest, ne. of Kentville: top of adult eagle's head just visible in nest cup. Gesner's Pond: 2 pairs of Canada geese, pond totally open. Kidston's Pond, Upper Church Street: 1 pair of Canada geese, a m/f pr of mallards, and 2 male ring-necked ducks. Van Nostrand's Pond, Starr's Point, the newer DUC pond: no water birds at all, but alder catkins/flowers were all open on one small tree at the pond edge. Bald eagle nest at Seaview Poultry Farm, Starr's Point: still no adult eagles visible there. MARCH 24, 2012 - Andy Dean found and photographed a gray-phase GRAY SQUIRREL in the Kentville Ravine. MARCH 25, 2012 - Pat & I on our neighbourhood walk saw blooming small "bluebells" or Scillas, plus crocuses of course, and even a couple of blooming daffodills already, plus a blooming heath plant (which I erroneously called "heather" last year and got chastised for) (bad grammar!). Cecil Pulsifer found and photographed a mixed flock of shorebirds somewhere on Long Island, North Grand Pre: in his photos I counted/ guessed about 15 dunlins and 7 purple sandpipers -- I have asked Cecil how many there were, so these numbers are to be confirmed. MARCH 26, 2012 - The young American elm at the edge of the Acadia Arena parking lot is now in bloom, as is a quite large still-standing and apparently healthy? American elm on the Acadia campus (kitty- corner from the old bookstore bldg. and just sw. of Denton Hall (music bldg.). And now a red maple by the Arena parking lot has flower buds just opening. The Irving Botanical Gardens are now open again, and Mayflower flower- buds are visible in some places. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. --Apple-Mail-16-149250697 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII <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: = 12.0px Helvetica"><b>MARCH 22, 2012</b> - Sunny and <b>VERY WARM</b> = today, up to <b>27 C.!! </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: 12.0px Helvetica">Pat Chalmers found <b>ELM in = bloom</b> yesterday in Halifax -- what species of elm?. So today = I checked the <b>young American? elm</b> that I watch every year = at the edge of the Acadia Arena parking lot; its<b> flower buds are = quite swollen but not open</b> yet. Very nearby are two planted = silver maples and a red maple that I also monitor every Spring: the<b> = red maple</b> has quite swollen flower-buds, but the female <b>silver = maples</b> have <b>open crimson flowers/catkins</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: 12.0px Helvetica">I still = haven't seen <b>coltsfoot </b>(maybe later today?) in bloom (see below), = but <b>crocuses and snow-drops</b> are popping up everywhere in = Wolfville. And of course the planted varieties of <b>witch-hazel = </b>continue to bloom in Wolfville's Clock Park.</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: 12.0px Helvetica">In = mid-afternoon I checked some other sites for wild flowers, and the best = site was the northeast end of Oak Avenue in Wolfville (ne. of Blomidon = Inn): there were about<b> 50 open flower-heads of coltsfoot,</b> plus = some just-open <i>Daphne</i><b> flowers </b>(one of "Jean Timpa's = bushes"), and some<b> willow sp. "pussies"</b> (no open flowers = yet). Two other sites had just a few flower-heads of = coltsfoot.</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: = 12.0px Helvetica">In late afternoon, when my car was registering 27 = C.!!, I prowled around in the shady, cooler, but sweaty <b>Kentville = Ravine</b>, trying to find the <b>bald eagle nest </b>that James = Churchill found several days ago. But I had no luck, despite = James' excellent directions and map. I'm pitiful! I did see = an <b>adult bald eagle </b>flying, probably from the area of the nest I = couldn't find.</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: = 12.0px Helvetica">In the Ravine, a <b>n. flicker</b> was calling, and I = was very happy to hear a <b>singing winter wren</b>. And several = <b>robins</b> were in an orchard on top beside the edge of the = Ravine.</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: = 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Stella's Pond</b> (n. of New Minas, by river on = Middle Dyke Rd.), held 4 <b>Canada geese</b>, a male mallard, and 3 = black ducks. Nothing but a song sparrow at the Port Williams = sewage ponds.</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: = 12.0px Helvetica"><b>MARCH 23, 2012</b> - Sunny again but much cooler = (13 C. in car) and very windy-cool from the north.</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: 12.0px Helvetica">I should = have looked yesterday (very hot for two days), but at Lockhart & = Ryan Park in New Minas, my annually early <b>Mayflowers</b> showed no = flowers and not even any swollen flower-buds.</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: 12.0px = Helvetica"><b>Stella's Pond</b> still has 2 pairs of <b>Canada geese</b> = and a few <b>mallards</b> and <b>black ducks</b>, but now there is a<b> = big, fat, brown and white domestic goose</b> too.</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: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Eagle = Landing bald eagle nest</b>, ne. of Kentville: top of <b>adult eagle's = head</b> just visible in nest cup.</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: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Gesner's Pond</b>: 2 = pairs of <b>Canada geese</b>, pond totally open.</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: 12.0px = Helvetica"><b>Kidston's Pond</b>, Upper Church Street: 1 pair of = <b>Canada geese</b>, a m/f pr of <b>mallards</b>, and 2 male<b> = ring-necked ducks</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: = 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Van Nostrand's Pond</b>, Starr's Point, the newer = DUC pond: no water birds at all, but <b>alder catkins/flowers were all = open</b> on one small tree at the pond edge.</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: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Bald = eagle nest </b>at Seaview Poultry Farm, <b>Starr's Point:</b> still = <b>no adult eagles</b> visible there.</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: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>MARCH = 24, 2012 - </b></font><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-size: 12px; ">Andy Dean found and photographed a = gray-phase <b>GRAY SQUIRREL</b> in the Kentville = Ravine.</span></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: = 12.0px Helvetica"><b>MARCH 25, 2012</b> - Pat & I on our = neighbourhood walk saw blooming small <b>"bluebells" or = Scillas</b>, plus<b> crocuses</b> of course, and even a couple of = blooming <b>daffodills</b> already, plus a blooming <b>heath</b> plant = (which I erroneously called "heather" last year and got chastised = for)(bad grammar!).</font></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: 12.0px = Helvetica"><br></font></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: 12.0px Helvetica"><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: 12.0px Helvetica">Cecil = Pulsifer found and photographed a mixed flock of shorebirds somewhere on = Long Island, North Grand Pre: in his photos I counted/guessed about 15 = <b>dunlins</b> and 7 <b>purple sandpipers</b> -- I have asked Cecil how = many there were, so these numbers are to be = confirmed.</font></div></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: = 12.0px Helvetica"><b>MARCH 26, 2012 </b>- The young <b>American elm</b> = at the edge of the Acadia Arena parking lot is now<b> in bloom</b>, as = is a quite large still-standing and apparently healthy? <b>American = elm</b> on the Acadia campus (kitty-corner from the old bookstore bldg. = and just sw. of Denton Hall (music bldg.).</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: 12.0px Helvetica">And now a = <b>red maple</b> by the Arena parking lot has<b> flower buds </b>just = opening.</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: = 12.0px Helvetica">The <b>Irving Botanical Gardens</b> are now open = again, and <b>Mayflower flower-buds</b> are visible in some = places.</font></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: 12.0px Helvetica"><br></font></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: = 12.0px Helvetica">Cheers from Jim in Wolfville.</font></div> = </body></html>= --Apple-Mail-16-149250697--
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