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--Apple-Mail-92-567101016 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Begin forwarded message: > From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Date: October 16, 2012 12:02:32 AM ADT > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> > Subject: [ValleyNature] shorebirds & tides, Euonymus showy fruits, > hooded mergansers, robins > > OCT. 15, 2012 - In Gesner's Pond (M. Dyke Rd.), 3 hooded mergansers > (a m/f pair + a f/imm, and 3 m/f pairs of mallards. > > In Wolfville, robins seen flying and also gleaning mountain-ash > berries. > > Along the Rail Trail in nw. Wolfville, a showy species of Euonymus > has oodles of pink fruits that have now split their outer envelopes > to reveal 1-4 gaudy orange seeds per fruit -- Euonymus is the genus > that includes "burning bush" and several other species/varieties, > but I don't yet have a common name for this showy species. A > different species with winged stems in a "burning bush" with > gorgeous purple-pink leaves, which are visible all over town in > residential yards and parks. > > Daytime high tide was at 13:11 or 1:11 p.m. NOTE the VERY LARGE- > AMPLITUDE TIDES predicted for the next three days, a coincidence of > Perigee and New Moon -- see BNS Calendar for Oct. 2012. > > In Wolfville Harbour with the tide totally out of the harbour at 4 > p.m., 17 semipalmated plovers and 3 "peeps", i.e., either > semipalmated or, less likely from colours, least sandpipers. No > sign of any larger shorebirds at that time. However, at 2:45 p.m. > with the tide considerably higher, Pat Hawes and Erica Garrett saw > (without binoculars) 10 yellowlegs and, they think, a/the godwit?! > on the rocks at the harbour edge. This needs to be checked out, > obviously. > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/ > nature_blomidonnaturalists.ca --Apple-Mail-92-567101016 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; "> <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" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">"James W. Wolford" <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>></fon= t></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">October 16, 2012 12:02:32 AM = ADT</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Nature BNS <<a = href=3D"mailto:nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a>></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[ValleyNature] shorebirds & = tides, Euonymus showy fruits, hooded mergansers, = robins</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><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>OCT. 15, 2012</b></font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" = color=3D"#0a28ce" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial; color: #0a28ce"> - In = </font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px = Arial"><b>Gesner's Pond</b></font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" = color=3D"#0a28ce" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial; color: #0a28ce"> (M. Dyke = Rd.), 3</font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px = Arial"><b> hooded mergansers</b></font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" = color=3D"#0a28ce" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial; color: #0a28ce"> (a m/f = pair + a f/imm, and 3 m/f pairs of </font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" = style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial"><b>mallards</b></font><font face=3D"Arial" = size=3D"4" color=3D"#0a28ce" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial; color: = #0a28ce">.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(10, 40, 206); min-height: 15px; = "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" = color=3D"#0A28CE" face=3D"Arial" size=3D"3"><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 13px;"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" color=3D"#0a28ce" = style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial; color: #0a28ce">In Wolfville, </font><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px = Arial"><b>robins</b></font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" = color=3D"#0a28ce" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial; color: #0a28ce"> seen = flying and also gleaning mountain-ash = berries.</font></div></span></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(10, 40, 206); 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" = color=3D"#0a28ce" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial; color: #0a28ce">Along the = Rail Trail in nw. Wolfville, a showy species of</font><font face=3D"Arial"= size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial"><i> Euonymus</i></font><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" color=3D"#0a28ce" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial; = color: #0a28ce"> has oodles of</font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" = style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial"><b> pink fruits</b></font><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" color=3D"#0a28ce" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial; = color: #0a28ce"> that have now split their outer envelopes to reveal 1-4 = gaudy </font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px = Arial"><b>orange seeds</b></font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" = color=3D"#0a28ce" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial; color: #0a28ce"> per = fruit -- </font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px = Arial"><i>Euonymus</i></font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" = color=3D"#0a28ce" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial; color: #0a28ce"> is the = genus that includes </font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: = 13.0px Arial"><b>"burning bush" </b></font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4"= color=3D"#0a28ce" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial; color: #0a28ce">and = several other species/varieties, but I don't yet have a common name for = this showy species. A different species with winged stems in a = "burning bush" with gorgeous purple-pink leaves, which are visible all = over town in residential yards and parks.</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: = rgb(10, 40, 206); 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>Daytime high = tide </b></font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" color=3D"#0a28ce" = style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial; color: #0a28ce">was at 13:11 or 1:11 = p.m. NOTE the </font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: = 13.0px Arial"><b>VERY LARGE-AMPLITUDE TIDES predicted for the next three = days</b></font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" color=3D"#0a28ce" = style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial; color: #0a28ce">, a coincidence of Perigee = and New Moon -- see BNS Calendar for Oct. 2012.</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: = rgb(10, 40, 206); 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" color=3D"#0a28ce" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial; = color: #0a28ce">In Wolfville Harbour with the tide totally out of the = harbour at 4 p.m., 17 </font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" = style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial"><b>semipalmated plovers</b></font><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" color=3D"#0a28ce" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial; = color: #0a28ce"> and 3 </font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" = style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial"><b>"peeps"</b></font><font face=3D"Arial" = size=3D"4" color=3D"#0a28ce" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial; color: = #0a28ce">, i.e., either semipalmated or, less likely from colours, least = sandpipers. No sign of any larger shorebirds at that time. = However, at 2:45 p.m. with the tide considerably higher, Pat Hawes and = Erica Garrett saw (without binoculars) 10 </font><font face=3D"Arial" = size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial"><b>yellowlegs</b></font><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" color=3D"#0a28ce" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial; = color: #0a28ce"> and, they think, a/the </font><font face=3D"Arial" = size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial"><b>godwit?! </b>on the rocks at = the harbour edge.</font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" color=3D"#0a28ce" = style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial; color: #0a28ce"> This needs to be = checked out, obviously.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" color=3D"#0a28ce" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial; = color: #0a28ce"><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" color=3D"#0a28ce" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial; = color: #0a28ce">Cheers from Jim in Wolfville.</font></div><div><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" color=3D"#0a28ce" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial; = color: #0a28ce"><br></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = ">_______________________________________________</div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">Nature mailing list</div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a = href=3D"mailto:Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">Nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a = href=3D"http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnatu= ralists.ca">http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidon= naturalists.ca</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-92-567101016--
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