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--Apple-Mail-11--42382449 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed I sent this with no subject line to NatureBNS, alias ValleyNature, just a bit earlier. Apologies. Jim. Begin forwarded message: > From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Date: July 9, 2013 5:27:59 PM ADT > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> > > JULY 9, 2013 - In mid-afternoon I spent an hour walking the trail > around Miner's Marsh in Kentville. > > Common milkweed is abundant there and now at its peak of blooming > with oodles of pink flowers, but no monarch butterflies were seen. > Other plants in bloom include yellow loosestrife (not related to > purple loosestrife), narrow-leaved cattail, bur-reed, oodles of > goutweed (nasty weed), Canada thistle, hedge bindweed, evening > primrose, St. John's-wort, knapweed, sulphur or rough-fruited > cinquefoil, Deptford pink, Queen-Anne's-lace, etc. etc. > > I also noted galls/swellings on willow leaves, possibly from sawflies? > > Green frogs were calling, but no bull frogs were heard. > > Red-winged blackbirds abundant as usual, and I saw a male feed a > fully fledged juvenile. A sora rail whinnied close to me at 2:45 > p.m., a bit east from the small bridge where the cross trail meets > the main trail. At one point in my walk, not far in from the big > bridge, I thought I heard the peeping of young ducklings, but I > couldn't see them. > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. --Apple-Mail-11--42382449 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; "> I sent this with no subject line to NatureBNS, alias ValleyNature, just = a bit earlier. Apologies. 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" 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">July 9, 2013 5:27:59 PM = 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; 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>JULY 9, 2013</b> - </font><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 12px; ">In mid-afternoon = I spent an hour walking the trail around<b> Miner's Marsh </b>in = Kentville. </span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 12px; = "><b><br></b></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 12px; "><b>Common = milkweed</b> is abundant there and now at its peak of blooming with = oodles of pink flowers, but <b>no monarch butterflies</b> were = seen. <b>Other plants in bloom include</b> yellow loosestrife (not = related to purple loosestrife), narrow-leaved cattail, bur-reed, oodles = of goutweed (nasty weed), Canada thistle, hedge bindweed, evening = primrose, St. John's-wort, knapweed, sulphur or rough-fruited = cinquefoil, Deptford pink, Queen-Anne's-lace, etc. etc. = </span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 12px; = "><br></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><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 also = noted <b>galls/swellings on willow leaves</b>, possibly from<b> = sawflies? </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>Green frogs</b> were calling, but no bull frogs = were heard. </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>Red-winged blackbirds</b> abundant as usual, and I = <b>saw a male feed a fully fledged juvenile.</b> A<b> sora rail = </b>whinnied close to me at 2:45 p.m., a bit east from the small bridge = where the cross trail meets the main trail. At one point in my = walk, not far in from the big bridge, I thought I heard the peeping of = <b>young ducklings</b>, but I couldn't see = them. </font></div></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 12px; = "