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h --Apple-Mail=_72D1CAD3-8D10-49E9-A2FB-F95B1AA9D402 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > Subject: [ValleyNature] re distressed birds this spring -- was more = woodcocks but not good news > Date: April 12, 2015 at 1:08:16 AM ADT > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> > Cc: Helene Van Doninck <helene.birdvet@gmail.com> >=20 > THANKS, HELENE! [Director of Cobequid Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre = near Truro]. I will also post this to naturens. Jim in Wolfville. >=20 > Begin forwarded message: >=20 >> From: Helene Van Doninck <helene.birdvet@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: re distressed birds this spring -- was more woodcocks = but not good news >> Date: April 11, 2015 at 11:32:20 PM ADT >> To: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> >>=20 >> We've been seeing all sorts of starving birds all winter, and lately = robins and woodcock. I know you mention the robins you've seen look fat, = but without actually touching them there's no way to determine their = condition...only palpation of the breast muscle can do that. I doubt = there's a pile of fat robins in NS right now. >> Have lately had multiple cases where people are traveling to us with = woodcock, robins, and lately Saw Whets...which are thin and weak enough = that they've died on the way. >> We have a pile of owls here that are holding till the weather breaks = for release. Not much sense in feeding them all winter only to let them = go in a food scarcity situation. Bare grass can't come soon enough for = me. Our food budget for 2014/2015 was surpassed long ago! >> Helene >>=20 >> Helene Van Doninck DVM >> Cobequid Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre >> Hilden Nova Scotia >> www.cwrc.net >> helene.birdvet@gmail.com >> 902-893-0253 >>=20 >> On Apr 11, 2015 9:31 PM, "Jim Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> = wrote: >> Pat and I have been wondering about how well our various spring birds = are making out, especially here in The Valley compared with other areas = of the province. Nearly all of the robins we have seen looked fat and = very healthy, but we heard on Thursday that Michael Laceby of The = Blomidon Inn in Wolfville found two dead robins that morning (he said = that superficially they looked big and normal to him). I have been = especially worried about the early woodcocks, which have been so = incredibly abundantly reported by everyone this year of the very late = spring. Two days ago we heard by way of a Sierra Club message that Hope = Swinimer had quite a few woodcocks at Hope For Wildlife in Seaforth that = were in need of care. Very few of the reported sightings to us on = naturens have been of birds in distress, but both Andrew Hebda and Hope = Swinimer reported oodles of calls about distressed or dying birds of = various kinds, including especially robins. Maybe we can find out from = Helene Van Doninck in Truro about how she is faring in the wildlife = rehab=92 business, compared with Hope For Wildlife. >>=20 >> Cheers? fromj Jim in Wolfville. >>=20 >> Begin forwarded message: >>=20 >>> From: James Hirtle <jrhbirder@hotmail.com> >>> Subject: [NatureNS] More woodcocks but not good news >>> Date: April 10, 2015 at 6:33:07 PM ADT >>> To: Naturens Naturens <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> >>> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca >>>=20 >>> I had a report of another American woodcock that some children had = shot with a pellet gun in Broad Cove. Also, a call from a lady that = another is not in good shape and needs assistance. Not the lady, but = the woodcock. >>> =20 >>> James R. Hirtle >>> LaHave=20 >>=20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > = http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnaturalists.= ca --Apple-Mail=_72D1CAD3-8D10-49E9-A2FB-F95B1AA9D402 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><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>Subject: </b></span><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>[ValleyNature] re distressed birds = this spring -- was more woodcocks but not good = news</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';">April 12, 2015 at = 1:08:16 AM 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>><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';">Helene Van Doninck = <<a = href=3D"mailto:helene.birdvet@gmail.com">helene.birdvet@gmail.com</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;">THANKS, HELENE! [Director of Cobequid Wildlife = Rehabilitation Centre near Truro]. I will also post this to = naturens. Jim in Wolfville.<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;"><span style=3D"font-family: = Helvetica;"><b>From: </b></span><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Helene Van Doninck &a