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--Apple-Mail-15-15057939 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed JUNE 7, 2012 - On Beckwith Ave. close to home in Wolfville, I again encountered a male pileated woodpecker on the ground, working the edge of a lawn along the curb and pecking at the ground; I'm guessing it was foraging on ants that were at the ground surface there; the woodpecker was quite approachable by me in my car. This has happened twice for me in Wolfville in the past week, and at least three other people have mentioned the same kind of sighting, all in Wolfville. Also today my dentist, Andy Nette, told me about an active pileated woodpecker nest in a poplar? along Kent Avenue in Wolfville (I will check this out and report on it later). Gesner's Pond (Middle Dyke Rd., n. of Kentville): 2 Canada geese, 3 male mallards, and 2 small, brown-backed, very fast swallows (bank swallows?) flying back and forth over the pond surface, but not close enough for identification. Eagle Landing subdivision, n. of Kentville: bald eagle nest has two fairly large nestlings getting feathered out, and adult male was perched next to the nest. Miner's Marsh, Kentville, at mid-day: 1 male n. shoveler, 1 sora whinnied just once while I was there, 1 e. kingbird, lots of male mallards and several moulting toward eclipse plumage, at least 4 hen mallards with broods 1/3 to 1/2 grown. 2 Am. black ducks, lots of red- winged blackbirds, unseen warblers singing (yellows?). Plants in bloom included bur-reed and highbush cranberry and quite a few other species, like common dandelion, hawkweed sp., etc. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. --Apple-Mail-15-15057939 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 class=3D"Apple-style-span" face=3D"Arial" = size=3D"3"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: = 13px;"><b><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" = style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial"><b>JUNE 7, 2012 - </b>On Beckwith Ave. = close to home in Wolfville, I again encountered a male<b> pileated = woodpecker on the ground</b>, working the edge of a lawn along the curb = and pecking at the ground; I'm guessing it was foraging on ants that = were at the ground surface there; the woodpecker was quite approachable = by me in my car. This has happened twice for me in Wolfville in = the past week, and at least three other people have mentioned the same = kind of sighting, all in Wolfville. Also today my dentist, Andy = Nette, told me about an active <b>pileated woodpecker nest</b> in a = poplar? along Kent Avenue in Wolfville (I will check this out and report = on it later).</font></div></b></span></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: = 13.0px Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial"><b>Gesner's = Pond</b> (Middle Dyke Rd., n. of Kentville): 2 Canada geese, 3 male = mallards, and 2 small, brown-backed, very fast <b>swallows</b> (bank = swallows?) flying back and forth over the pond surface, but not close = enough for identification.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 13px/normal Arial; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: = 13.0px Arial"><b><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-weight: = normal; "><b>Eagle Landing</b></span><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-weight: normal; "> subdivision, n. of Kentville: = </span><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-weight: normal; = "><b>bald eagle nest</b></span><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-weight: normal; "> has two fairly large </span><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-weight: normal; = "><b>nestlings</b></span><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-weight: normal; "> getting feathered out, and adult male = was perched next to the nest. </span> </b></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; = min-height: 15px; "><b></b><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial"><b>Miner's = Marsh</b>, Kentville, at mid-day: 1 male <b>n. shoveler</b>, 1 = <b>sora</b> whinnied just once while I was there, 1 <b>e. kingbird</b>, = lots of male mallards and several moulting toward eclipse plumage, at = least 4 hen <b>mallards with broods</b> 1/3 to 1/2 grown. 2 Am. black = ducks, lots of red-winged blackbirds, unseen warblers singing = (yellows?).</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 13px/normal Arial; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top:= 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial">Plants in bloom = included <b>bur-reed</b> and <b>highbush cranberry</b> and quite a few = other species, like common dandelion, hawkweed sp., = etc. </font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" = style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial"><br></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial">Cheers from Jim = in Wolfville.</font></div> </body></html>= --Apple-Mail-15-15057939--
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