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Index of Subjects Hi George, It's a shame, and almost a surprise, at how the young children now do not get outdoors to see Nature first hand. Television has replaced a walk in the woods. Amagine! Wild! deer. Paul Ruggles. On 2014-04-04, at 10:10 PM, George E. Forsyth wrote: > > Hi All, > > Today I spent at a badminton tournament in Argyle Yarmouth County with students from the school where I teach in New Minas. > > On the six hour return drive on the 101 Hwy I was able to see a few birds. > > Foremost, early this morning Digby County was carpeted with robins, literally thousands along the road about Marshalltown, and lots through the rest of Digby Co, they seemed dispersed on the return drive. > > West of the Coldbrook exit (14) there were many red winged blackbirds in the trees in the wet area on the south side of Hwy 101. The swampy area just east of the cranberry farm south of Weston Kings County (between exits 15 and 16) had lots of red winged blackbirds sitting high in the trees through out the swamp. As well there were scattered small groups of grackles in Annapolis County east of Bridgetown. > > On the return drive in Weston a small soaring buteo hawk caught my eye, as it soared above the road and I was able to clearly see the underside, the absence of a white breast and belly band and no red in the tail grabbed my attention. The wings were black tipped and outlined with dark, the tail banded, size seemed smaller. I am quite convinced of Broad winged hawk, but it seems early. > > The grain fields about Weston, Kings Co had flying Canada geese this morning and grazing geese this evening on the return. > > At the Drumlin Heights School in Argyle a singing cardinal greeted us! > > As we left in early afternoon two great blue herons were feeding in the bays beside the Hwy 103 at Glenwood. > > Driving home the students were talking about where and how far each had traveled, somehow the conversation came around to deer. The student sitting in the front seat said that she had never seen deer, two of the others said they saw them every time their basketball team went to Truro. As we returned on the Hwy 101 at Bridgetown I was able to point to the edge of a field close to the road where four deer were grazing in the shrubs, this student had now seen wild deer! > > A great day of badminton and a pleasant drive with great kids through the Valley to Yarmouth, > > George Forsyth >
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