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--Apple-Mail=_B2CAB096-D5E9-4744-8F63-2C0C105455DF Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Begin forwarded message: > From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Subject: [ValleyNature] shorebirds at Avonport, squid eggs at Grand = Pre > Date: July 20, 2014 at 9:29:15 PM ADT > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca>, Roy Bishop = <rlb@eastlink.ca>, Sue Abbott <sabbott@bsc-eoc.org>, Richard Stern = <sternrichard@gmail.com> > Cc: Rick Whitman <rick.whitman@ns.sympatico.ca>, Julie Paquet = <Julie.Paquet@ec.gc.ca>, John Owen <john.owen@ns.sympatico.ca> >=20 > JULY 20, 2014 - We had a call from Heather MacDonald of Avonport Beach = =97 In early morning a bit before high tide, which was 8:13 a.m., she = saw LOTS OF FLOCKS OF SMALL SHOREBIRDS, alias =93peeps=94, and some of = the flocks were quite large, but no overall numbers given. >=20 > Pat & I walked at Evangeline Beach, westward from the public steps, to = the nesting colony of bank swallows about a kilometre west of the steps = =97 the nesting burrows need counting, but I would guess more than 10 = and up to 20 pairs perhaps =97 only a few were flying around at once. = We walked a bit beyond the obvious outcrop point but did not find any = more swallows there. >=20 > The only thing otherwise reportable on our walk was a single =92sea = mop=92, a jelly-like cluster of dozens of finger-shaped egg-capsules = from a long-finned Loligo squid, alias Peale=92s squid, the same species = that has deposited lots of eggs on local beaches for the past two = summers. >=20 > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > = http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnaturalists.= ca --Apple-Mail=_B2CAB096-D5E9-4744-8F63-2C0C105455DF Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html = charset=3Dwindows-1252"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space;"><br><div style=3D""><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;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Jim Wolford <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>><br><= /span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>[ValleyNature] = shorebirds at Avonport, squid eggs at Grand Pre</b><br></span></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, = 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">July 20, 2014 at 9:29:15 PM = ADT<br></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Nature BNS <<a = href=3D"mailto:nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a>>, Roy Bishop <<a = href=3D"mailto:rlb@eastlink.ca">rlb@eastlink.ca</a>>, Sue Abbott = <sabbott@bsc-eoc.org>, = Richard Stern <<a = href=3D"mailto:sternrichard@gmail.com">sternrichard@gmail.com</a>><br><= /span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Cc: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Rick Whitman <<a = href=3D"mailto:rick.whitman@ns.sympatico.ca">rick.whitman@ns.sympatico.ca<= /a>>, Julie Paquet <<a = href=3D"mailto:Julie.Paquet@ec.gc.ca">Julie.Paquet@ec.gc.ca</a>>, = John Owen <<a = href=3D"mailto:john.owen@ns.sympatico.ca">john.owen@ns.sympatico.ca</a>>= ;<br></span></div><br><div><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" = content=3D"text/html charset=3Dwindows-1252"><div style=3D"word-wrap: = break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space;"><div style=3D"margin: 0px;"><b>JULY 20, 2014 </b>- = We had a call from Heather MacDonald of <b>Avonport Beach</b> =97 In = early morning a bit before high tide, which was 8:13 a.m., she saw = <b>LOTS OF FLOCKS OF SMALL SHOREBIRDS</b>, alias =93peeps=94, and some = of the flocks were quite large, but no overall numbers given.</div><div = style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: = 0px;">Pat & I walked at <b>Evangeline Beach</b>, westward from the = public steps, to the nesting colony of bank swallows about a kilometre = west of the steps =97 the nesting burrows need counting, but I would = guess more than 10 and up to 20 pairs perhaps =97 only a few were flying = around at once. We walked a bit beyond the obvious outcrop point = but did not find any more swallows there.</div><div style=3D"margin: = 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;">The only = thing otherwise reportable on our walk was a <b>single =92sea mop=92, a = jelly-like cluster of dozens of finger-shaped egg-capsules from a = long-finned </b><i>Loligo</i><b> squid</b>, alias Peale=92s squid, the = same species that has deposited lots of eggs on local beaches for the = past two summers.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville.</div></div>_______________________________________________<br>N= ature mailing list<br><a = href=3D"mailto:Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">Nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a><br>http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnat= uralists.ca<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_B2CAB096-D5E9-4744-8F63-2C0C105455DF--
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