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--Apple-Mail-10--647922772 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Begin forwarded message: > From: "Jim (James W.) Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Date: June 15, 2014 4:03:19 PM ADT > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> > Subject: [ValleyNature] cattail uprooting mystery, etc., Miner's > Marsh, Kentville > > JUNE 15, 2014 - Pat & I walked the Miner's Marsh, Kentville, > 'circular' trail in mid-afternoon with a slight drizzle but > otherwise nice conditions -- good light, cool at 17 C. with light > breee. Wildlife heard included a good trilling chorus of American > toads, a few green frogs gronking, one very loud spring peeper?? > calling next to the trail (from a shrub?), at least 2 pied-billed > grebes calling together (and one more? seen), and lots of red- > winged blackbirds. > > Flowers seen included highbush cranberry, blue flag (Iris), two > kinds of chickweed, and cuckoo-flower still in bloom (1). > > A NOTABLE MYSTERY was the UPROOTING OF CATTAIL CLUMPS in one part > of the marsh (east from the trailside bench). I would have to > guess muskrats as the culprits here, although the only muskrat seen > today was in the river adjacent to the river bridge, and I have not > noticed such uprootings recently. > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/ > nature_blomidonnaturalists.ca --Apple-Mail-10--647922772 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><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">"Jim (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">June 15, 2014 4:03:19 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] cattail uprooting = mystery, etc., Miner's Marsh, Kentville</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>JUNE 15, = 2014</b> - Pat & I walked the <b>Miner's Marsh</b>, Kentville, = 'circular' trail in mid-afternoon with a slight drizzle but otherwise = nice conditions -- good light, cool at 17 C. with light breee. = Wildlife heard included a good trilling chorus of <b>American toads</b>, = a few <b>green frogs</b> gronking, one very loud <b>spring peeper?? = </b>calling next to the trail (from a shrub?), at least 2 <b>pied-billed = grebes </b>calling together (and one more? seen), and lots of<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 13px/normal Arial; = min-height: 15px; "><b></b><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">Flowers seen = included<b> highbush cranberry</b>, <b>blue flag</b> (<i>Iris</i>), two = kinds of <b>chickweed</b>, and <b>cuckoo-flower</b> still in bloom = (1).</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">A<b> NOTABLE = MYSTERY </b>was the <b>UPROOTING OF CATTAIL CLUMPS</b> in one part of = the marsh (east from the trailside bench). I would have to guess = muskrats as the culprits here, although the only muskrat seen today was = in the river adjacent to the river bridge, and I have not noticed such = uprootings recently.</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"><br></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-10--647922772--
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