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width: --047d7b673eba19d0e104e3c43aa9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 hi Blake I'm always looking for good trails in the area and this sounds interesting - is it a public trail? On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 2:52 PM, Blake Maybank <bmaybank@gmail.com> wrote: > 11 August 2013 > > I was part of a group that hiked a trail near Moses Mountain in the > beautiful Avon Valley in Western Hants County yesterday. Despite walking > more than 12 km through beautiful deciduous and mixed wood forests, we > encountered very few birds. While I suspect that most of the migrant > breeding birds had departed, why were we unable to detect a single > chickadee, nuthatch, or Blue Jay? We heard a couple of vireos and a pewee, > and one flicker. The one highlight was a soaring Turkey Vulture, a new > species for my Hants County list. > > Plenty of Goldenrod, knapweed, and other often flowers lined the trail > along most of our hike, but we did not encounter a single butterfly. And > there were very few bees in evidence as well, which was also discouraging. > > On such a beautiful day it is hard to account for the paucity of birds and > butterflies and other wildlife. > > -- > Blake Maybank <bmaybank@gmail.com> > 144 Bayview Drive, > White's Lake, Nova Scotia > B3T 1Z1 CANADA > (902) 852-2077 > > My Blog: *CSI: Life* <http://blakemaybank.com> > > Organiser, *Maritimes Nature Travel Club*<http://tinyurl.com/naturetravel> > ** <http://tinyurl.com/naturetravel>** > Author, "*Birding Sites of Nova Scotia* <http://tinyurl.com/birdingns> > > > > <maybank@ns.sympatico.ca> > > > --047d7b673eba19d0e104e3c43aa9 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr">hi Blake<br><br>I'm always looking for good trails in = the area and this sounds interesting - is it a public trail?<br></div><div = class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 12, 20= 13 at 2:52 PM, Blake Maybank <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:bmayba= nk@gmail.com" target=3D"_blank">bmaybank@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br= > <blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p= x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font size=3D"4"><font face=3D"tahoma,sans-s= erif">11 August 2013<br><br>I was part of a group that hiked a trail near M= oses Mountain in the beautiful Avon Valley in Western Hants County yesterda= y.=A0 Despite walking more than 12 km through beautiful deciduous and mixed= wood forests, we encountered very few birds. While I suspect that most of = the migrant breeding birds had departed, why were we unable to detect a sin= gle chickadee, nuthatch, or Blue Jay? We heard a couple of vireos and a pew= ee, and one flicker.=A0 The one highlight was a soaring Turkey Vulture, a n= ew species for my Hants County list.<br> <br>Plenty of Goldenrod, knapweed, and other often flowers lined the trail = along most of our hike, but we did not encounter a single butterfly. And th= ere were very few bees in evidence as well, which was also discouraging.<br= > <br>On such a beautiful day it is hard to account for the paucity of birds = and butterflies and other wildlife.<span class=3D"HOEnZb"><font color=3D"#8= 88888"><br clear=3D"all"></font></span></font></font><span class=3D"HOEnZb"= ><font color=3D"#888888"><br> -- <br><font size=3D"4"><a href=3D"mailto:bmaybank@gmail.com" target=3D"_bl= ank">Blake Maybank</a><br> 144 Bayview Drive,<br> White's Lake, Nova Scotia<br> B3T 1Z1 CANADA <br><a href=3D"tel:%28902%29%20852-2077" value=3D"+190285220= 77" target=3D"_blank">(902) 852-2077</a></font><br> <font size=3D"4"><br>My Blog:=A0 <a href=3D"http://blakemaybank.com" target= =3D"_blank"><b>CSI: Life</b></a><span style=3D"padding-right:16px;width:16p= x;min-height:16px"></span><span style=3D"padding-right:16px;width:16px;min-= height:16px"></span><span style=3D"padding-right:16px;width:16px;min-height= :16px"></span><span 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