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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; marg --001a11c3739284510d04f182623d Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 My dad lives on the Northumberland Strait, just where Hillsborough Bay meets the mouth of the Charlottetown harbour. The tides there on the weekend were abnormally high at 9.6 feet - quite a difference from 16.2 meters! On 31 January 2014 13:09, James W. Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> wrote: > > *Subject: **big tide alert for today* > > According to the Blomidon Naturalists Society 2014 Calendar, on sale at > various locations in the Wolfville-Greenwich-Port Williams area for $15, > TODAY has the New Moon coinciding with a close perigee (short Earth-Moon > distance), so that TOMORROW'S HIGH TIDE, the biggest tide of the year (fide > Rick Whitman), is at 1 p.m. at Wolfville to Horton Bluff and measures 16.2 > metres in amplitude (high tide to low tide height). You do the math to > figure our how many yards or feet that equals. > > BNS Calendars are for sale in Wolfville at Herbin's Jewelry and Eos > health-food store and Blomidon Inn, at Greenwich at Noggins and Hennigar's > and other Farm Markets, in Port Williams at Shur Gain Feed & Seeds, etc.? > > And don't forget the Sheffield Mills EAGLE WATCH WEEDEND II on Saturday > and Sunday. On Eagle Watch weekends there are usually 2 or 3 feedings > per day at the feeding site at the north end of Middle Dyke Road (vs. one > feeding a day during the week all winter long, courtesy of the Swetnam > poultry business). I recommend occasional visits to the feeding site > from 8 a.m. to 3 or even 4 p.m. > > Report your sightings to Jim at the Hall or on these Internet sites. > > A bunch of us biologists/naturalists will be making our first attempt at a > 2014 count of bald eagles, other raptors, etc., on Sunday, Feb. 2, from 10 > to 11 a.m. Last year we had 293 bald eagles, but it took three attempts. > Some of the results will be posted at the Sheffield Mills Community Hall > on Sunday, but it usually takes a couple of days to get the results from > all of the 16 field parties. > > For the count we have assigned areas to cover, like a Christmas Count, and > we cover roughly the same large area for both counts, from the base of the > North Mountain south to Black River Lake, and from Avonport west to > Kentville. > > Besides the area from Sheffield Mills to Canning and Kingsport, for the > Eagle Watch check out the Gaspereau Valley, and east of Wolfville to Grand > Pre, North Grand Pre, Hortonville, and Avonport, plus along the whole > length of Middle Dyke Road from New Minas to the north end. > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > > > -- Jamie Simpson Hantsport, NS --001a11c3739284510d04f182623d Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr">My dad lives on the Northumberland Strait, just where Hill= sborough Bay meets the mouth of the Charlottetown harbour. =A0The tides the= re on the weekend were abnormally high at 9.6 feet - quite a difference fro= m 16.2 meters!</div> <div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On 31 January= 2014 13:09, James W. Wolford <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:jimwo= lford@eastlink.ca" target=3D"_blank">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</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"><div style=3D"word-wrap:break-word"><br><div= ><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;ma= rgin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"> <font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font:12.0px = Helvetica"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style= =3D"font:12.0px Helvetica"><b>big tide alert for 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">According to the Blomidon Naturalists Society 2014 Calenda= r, on sale at various locations in the Wolfville-Greenwich-Port Williams ar= ea for $15, TODAY has the New Moon coinciding with a close perigee (short E= arth-Moon distance), so that TOMORROW'S HIGH TIDE, the biggest tide of = the year (fide Rick Whitman), is at 1 p.m. at Wolfville to Horton Bluff and= measures 16.2 metres in amplitude (high tide to low tide height).<span>=A0= </span>You do the math to figure our how many yards or feet that equals.</= 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:0= px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">BNS Calendars are for sale in Wolfvil= le at Herbin's Jewelry and Eos health-food store and Blomidon Inn, at G= reenwich at Noggins and Hennigar's and other Farm Markets, in Port Will= iams at Shur Gain Feed & Seeds, etc.?</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:0= px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">And don't forget the Sheffield Mi= lls EAGLE WATCH WEEDEND II on Saturday and Sunday.<span>=A0 </span>On Eagle= Watch weekends there are usually 2 or 3 feedings per day at the feeding si= te at the north end of Middle Dyke Road (vs. one feeding a day during the w= eek all winter long, courtesy of the Swetnam poultry business).<span>=A0 </= span>I recommend occasional visits to the feeding site from 8 a.m. to 3 or = even 4 p.m.</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:0= px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">Report your sightings to Jim at the H= all or on these Internet sites.</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:0= px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px">A bunch of us biologists/naturalists = will be making our first attempt at a 2014 count of bald eagles, other rapt= ors, etc., on Sunday, Feb. 2, from 10 to 11 a.m.<span>=A0 </span>Last year = we had 293 bald eagles, but it took three attempts.<span>=A0 </span>Some of= the results will be posted at the Sheffield Mills Community Hall on Sunday= , but it usually takes a couple of days to get the