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--Apple-Mail-4-731526412 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: July 1, 2014 3:38:13 PM ADT > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca>, Mark F Elderkin > <elderkmf@gov.ns.ca>, Sherman Boates <boatesjs@gov.ns.ca>, Randy > Milton <miltongr@gov.ns.ca> > Subject: [ValleyNature] bank swallows, jellyfish, periwinkles, > Kingsport Beach > > JULY 1, 2014 - Pat & I walked the top of Kingsport Beach today, > along the sandstone cliffs and hillsides below the cliff-top > cottages. We headed north from the wharf toward Blomidon, and, > about a half-kilometre along, we found a sizable colony of about 80 > nesting burrows of bank swallows, with quite a few swallows seen > flying to and from the bank holes. These aggregated burrows were > along about 40 metres of the length of the top of the cliff, and > all the holes were just below the top of the cliff. I cannot say > how many swallows we saw, since only up to 10 or so were in the air > at once. But the number of burrows is suggestive of substantial > numbers of pairs of dults. > > We also saw the drying corpse of a small transparent jellyfish that > was probably a small moon jellyfish, Aurelia. Also on the upper > intertidal flat sandstone outcrops of sandstone were numerous > aggregations of rough periwinkle snails, Littorina littorea. > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/ > nature_blomidonnaturalists.ca --Apple-Mail-4-731526412 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">July 1, 2014 3:38:13 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>>, Mark F Elderkin <<a = href=3D"mailto:elderkmf@gov.ns.ca">elderkmf@gov.ns.ca</a>>, Sherman = Boates <<a = href=3D"mailto:boatesjs@gov.ns.ca">boatesjs@gov.ns.ca</a>>, Randy = Milton <<a = href=3D"mailto:miltongr@gov.ns.ca">miltongr@gov.ns.ca</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] bank swallows, jellyfish, periwinkles,<span = class=3D"Apple-tab-span" style=3D"white-space:pre"> </span>Kingsport = Beach</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>JULY 1, 2014</b> - Pat & I walked the top of = <b>Kingsport Beach</b> today, along the sandstone cliffs and hillsides = below the cliff-top cottages. We headed north from the wharf = toward Blomidon, and, about a half-kilometre along, we found a sizable = colony of about <b>80 nesting burrows of bank swallows</b>, with quite a = few swallows seen flying to and from the bank holes. These = aggregated burrows were along about 40 metres of the length of the top = of the cliff, and all the holes were just below the top of the = cliff. I cannot say how many swallows we saw, since only up to 10 = or so were in the air at once. But the number of burrows is = suggestive of substantial numbers of pairs of dults.</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">We also = saw the drying corpse of a small transparent <b>jellyfish</b> that was = probably a small <b>moon jellyfish</b>,<i> Aurelia</i>. Also on = the upper intertidal flat sandstone outcrops of sandstone were numerous = aggregations of <b>rough periwinkle</b> snails,<i> Littorina = littorea</i>.</font></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"><br></font></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">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-4-731526412--
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