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--Apple-Mail=_91EC86F8-A17F-4554-A814-12EE1C055041 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Begin forwarded message: > From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Subject: [ValleyNature] Miner's Marsh plants, leps, herps, birds, = mammals today > Date: May 25, 2015 at 7:16:06 PM ADT > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> >=20 > MAY 25, 2015 - MINER=92S MARSH =97 beautiful sunny and very warm day, = but quite windy (thus difficult to hear birds & amphibians again today). >=20 > - plants with flowers included red elderberry, cuckoo-flower, and red = oak with dangling catkins =97 I also found some undispersed = parachute-seeds of common milkweed and liberated them to today=92s = dispersive wind! (illegal? since c. milkweed is considered by some to be = a noxious weed? nah!). >=20 > - lepidopterans today were somewhat notable: 5 whites seen (none well = enough for definite ident., but at least some were mustard whites), 1 = sulphur seen (prob. clouded sulphur?), and a single black swallowtail = back in the parking lot. >=20 > - 6 painted turtles basking, 1 leopard frog heard snoring. >=20 > - birds: at least 2 pied-billed grebes (in 2 very separated pars of = marsh); Canada goose still on nest on island (and male mate nearby in = marsh); 5 mallards (3 males + 1 m/f pair)(duckling photos on Facebook = dated May 24 (and earlier?)); 6 tree swallows; 1 eastern kingbird; 1 = yellow warbler; 15 red-winged blackbirds (one observer saw a red-winged = blackbird land on the hole of swallow nest-box and saw what he called a = young swallow poke its head out of the hole =97 I assured him it=92s too = early for baby swallows, and it must have been an adult swallow, perhaps = with eggs now?). >=20 > - mammals: only humans of various ages and their diverse kinds of = dogs. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > = http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnaturalists.= ca --Apple-Mail=_91EC86F8-A17F-4554-A814-12EE1C055041 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><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] = Miner's Marsh plants, leps, herps, birds, mammals = today</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';">May 25, 2015 at = 7:16:06 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>><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; font-size: 14px;"><b>MAY = 25, 2015 - MINER=92S MARSH</b> =97 beautiful sunny and very warm day, = but quite windy (thus difficult to hear birds & amphibians again = today).</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: = 17px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;">- = <b>plants with flowers</b> included <b>red elderberry, cuckoo-flower, = and red oak</b> with dangling catkins =97 I also found some undispersed = parachute-<b>seeds of common milkweed</b> and liberated them to today=92s = dispersive wind! (illegal? since c. milkweed is considered by some to be = a noxious weed? nah!).</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: = 14px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: = 14px;">- <b>lepidopterans </b>today were somewhat notable: 5 = <b>whites</b> seen (none well enough for definite ident., but at least = some were mustard whites), 1 <b>sulphur</b> seen (prob. clouded = sulphur?), and a single <b>black swallowtail</b> back in the parking = lot.</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: = 17px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;">- 6 = <b>painted turtles</b> basking, 1<b> leopard frog</b> heard = snoring.</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; min-height: = 17px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 14px;">-<b> = birds</b>: at least 2 <b>pied-billed grebes</b> (in 2 very separated = pars of marsh); <b>Canada goose</b> still <b>on nest</b> on island (and = male mate nearby in marsh); 5 <b>mallards</b> (3 males + 1 m/f = pair)(<b>duckling photos</b> on Facebook dated May 24 (and earlier?)); 6 = <b>tree swallows</b>; 1 <b>eastern kingbird</b>; 1 <b>yellow = warbler</b>; 15 <b>red-winged blackbirds</b> (one observer saw a = red-winged blackbird land on the hole of swallow nest-box and saw what = he called a young swallow poke its head out of the hole =97 I assured = him it=92s too early for baby swallows, and it must have been an adult = swallow, perhaps with eggs now?).</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; = font-size: 14px; min-height: 17px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; = font-size: 14px;">- <b>mammals: </b>only humans of various ages and = their diverse kinds of = dogs.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville.<br><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div>_______________________________________________<br>Natu= re 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=_91EC86F8-A17F-4554-A814-12EE1C055041--
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