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--Apple-Mail-132--505601169 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed The two snipes were right where Andy Dean said to look for them, and they each flushed out of cattails before they were spotted. From the main bridge, go to the right and around the first bay, then look along on the left especially where there are some short cattails away from the tall ones along the edge. Begin forwarded message: > From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Date: October 11, 2013 5:30:00 PM ADT > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> > Subject: [ValleyNature] Miner's Marsh today > > OCT. 11, 2013 - MINER'S MARSH, Kentville, early afternoon: 3 double- > crested cormorants, 2 pied-billed grebes, 2 great blue herons (both > looking like cranes when first seen), 2 northern shovelers (in > female or immature plumage), 2 green-winged teals, one juvenile > wood duck (very tame), several mallards, 2 Wilson's snipes, a > belted kingfisher heard, an unseen tapping woodpecker, blue jays, > unidentified sparrows, and a few red-winged blackbirds. > > I met Murray Colbo and his dog, and Murray asked me about one plant > with purplish leaves still with flower-heads: I guessed a beggar- > tick or burr-marigold (Bidens sp.). I showed Murray the line- > drawings in Newcomb's Wildflower Guide, and he said probably it was > one of these species. The low plants I saw had just disc-flowers, > no radiate flowers, although they could have lost the ray-petals. > I guessed it was probably B. cernua (nodding or common beggar- > tick), but, when I later Googled this and B. frondosa (common > beggar-tick), the latter looked better for both flower-heads and > leaf shapes. But one Googled site said there are seven species of > Bidens in Nova Scotia, so back to the drawing board? Time to check > out what Zinck's 1998 Flora of N.S. has to say on this. > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/ > nature_blomidonnaturalists.ca --Apple-Mail-132--505601169 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; "> The two snipes were right where Andy Dean said to look for them, and = they each flushed out of cattails before they were spotted. =46rom = the main bridge, go to the right and around the first bay, then look = along on the left especially where there are some short cattails away = from the tall ones along the edge.<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 11, 2013 5:30:00 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; "><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] Miner's Marsh = today</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"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica"><b>OCT. 11, 2013 - MINER'S MARSH</b>, Kentville, early = afternoon: 3 <b>double-crested cormorants</b>, 2 <b>pied-billed = grebes</b>, 2 <b>great blue herons</b> (both looking like cranes when = first seen), 2 <b>northern shovelers </b>(in female or immature = plumage), 2 <b>green-winged teals</b>, one juvenile <b>wood duck = </b>(very tame), several <b>mallards</b>, 2 <b>Wilson's snipes</b>, a<b> = belted kingfisher</b> heard, an unseen tapping woodpecker, blue jays, = unidentified sparrows, and a few <b>red-winged = blackbirds</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 met Murray Colbo and his dog, and Murray asked me = about one plant with purplish leaves still with flower-heads: I guessed = a <b>beggar-tick or burr-marigold </b>(<i>Bidens</i> sp.). I = showed Murray the line-drawings in Newcomb's Wildflower Guide, and he = said probably it was one of these species. The low plants I saw = had just disc-flowers, no radiate flowers, although they could have lost = the ray-petals. I guessed it was probably <i>B. cernua</i> = (nodding or common beggar-tick), but, when I later Googled this and = <i>B. frondosa</i> (common beggar-tick), the latter looked better for = both flower-heads and leaf shapes. But one Googled site said there = are seven species of Bidens in Nova Scotia, so back to the drawing = board? Time to check out what Zinck's 1998 Flora of N.S. has to = say on this.</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; ">Cheers from Jim in Wolfville</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-132--505601169--
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