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--Apple-Mail-38-812709216 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > Subject: [ValleyNature] various nature in Wolfville + Canning + > Blomidon > > APRIL 18, 2014 - Again our chipmunk is filling its cheek pouches > with stuff under the bird feeders (cracked corn?, white millet?, > sunflower seeds?), and white-throated and song sparrows are singing > in the bright but cool sunshine. And briefly a red squirrel > visited the area of the feeders, after a week or so with no squirrels. > > Brenda Thexton reports that she and Dianne & Gordon Thorpe drove up > to Blomidon, where the bald eagle nest on the top of the cliff > above the Minas Basin still shows a white eagle head in the nest. > (Also I hear that Jerry Lockett has met the owners of the land > there and has permission to watch and photograph the eagles at the > nest -- he has seen the nest-relief ceremony there several times.) > > Brenda also reports that there are still "hundreds and hundreds" of > Canada geese at and near the Canning Aboiteau (Habitant River and > adjacent fields). > -------------------------- > Cheryl Phillips reports from Mount Denson, Hants County, that the > eastern towhee is still there (overwintered), and today she saw a > warbler -- I'm still waiting for her to look up a few kinds and let > me know whether or not it was a yellow-rumped warbler. > --------------------------- > In the afternoon I walked from Wolfville east to the edge of > Wolfville. All along I checked the garden flowers, now including > scillas or look-alikes, hyacinths, and daffodils. I saw some honey > bees, but not a lot of them (today was sunny but pretty cool), and > I saw a single brownish bee fly, unidentified and unphotographed. > > Along Oak Avenue I looked ror "Jean Timpa's" Daphne shrubs but > could not even find them, much less look for any signs of flowering. > > During my walk I "discovered" two items that apparently have been > there for years without my notice -- I must walk more in > Wolfville! First, I noticed a tall spruce tree with a very large > witch's broom gall about halfway up the trunk, below the living > parts of the tree; since it's a spruce and not a fir, the gall is > almost certainly the result of infection with dwarf mistletoe, a > parasitic flowering plant (native). > > My second discovery was a very striking stump sculpture of a > pileated woodpecker on a tree-trunk, in the back yard of a house. > Now I must ask for permission to photograph it. > ------------------------ > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/ > nature_blomidonnaturalists.ca --Apple-Mail-38-812709216 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; "><br><div><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>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[ValleyNature] various nature in = Wolfville + Canning + Blomidon</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"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial"><b>APRIL 18, 2014 = </b>- Again our<b> chipmunk</b> is filling its cheek pouches with stuff = under the bird feeders (cracked corn?, white millet?, sunflower seeds?), = and <b>white-throated and song sparrows</b> are singing in the bright = but cool sunshine. And briefly a<b> red squirrel </b>visited the = area of the feeders, after a week or so with no = squirrels.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 13px/normal Arial; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top:= 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial">Brenda Thexton = reports that she and Dianne & Gordon Thorpe drove up to = <b>Blomidon</b>, where the <b>bald eagle nest</b> on the top of the = cliff above the Minas Basin still shows a white eagle head in the = nest. (Also I hear that Jerry Lockett has met the owners of the = land there and has permission to watch and photograph the eagles at the = nest -- he has seen the nest-relief ceremony there several times.) = </font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 13px/normal Arial; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top:= 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial">Brenda also = reports that there are still<b> "hundreds and hundreds" of Canada = geese</b> at and near the Canning Aboiteau (Habitant River and adjacent = fields).</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" = style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial">--------------------------</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: = 13.0px Arial">Cheryl Phillips reports from Mount Denson, Hants County, = that the <b>eastern towhee</b> is still there (overwintered), and today = she saw a <b>warbler</b> -- I'm still waiting for her to look up a few = kinds and let me know whether or not it was a yellow-rumped = warbler.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" = style=3D"font: 13.0px = Arial">---------------------------</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial">In the afternoon = I walked from Wolfville east to the edge of Wolfville. All along I = checked the <b>garden flowers</b>, now including scillas or look-alikes, = hyacinths, and daffodils. I saw some<b> honey bees</b>, but not a = lot of them (today was sunny but pretty cool), and I saw a single = brownish <b>bee fly</b>, unidentified and = unphotographed.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 13px/normal Arial; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top:= 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial">Along Oak Avenue = I looked ror "Jean Timpa's"<b> Daphne shrubs</b> but could not even find = them, much less look for any signs of flowering.</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; = min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial">During my walk I = "discovered" two items that apparently have been there for years without = my notice -- I must walk more in Wolfville! First, I noticed a<b> = tall spruce tree with a very large witch's broom gall</b> about halfway = up the trunk, below the living parts of the tree; since it's a spruce = and not a fir, the gall is almost certainly the result of infection with = <b>dwarf mistletoe</b>, a parasitic flowering plant = (native).</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 13px/normal Arial; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top:= 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial">My second = discovery was a very striking <b>stump sculpture of a pileated = woodpecker on a tree-trunk</b>, in the back yard of a house. Now I = must ask for permission to photograph it.</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: = 13.0px Arial">------------------------</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: = 13.0px Arial">Cheers from Jim in Wolfville.</font></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-38-812709216--
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