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--Apple-Mail=_36B3594D-0CBF-41FE-A6EF-C3862AB7B8E3 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 July 30/15 -- new brood of p.-b. = grebes, etc. > Date: July 31, 2015 at 1:54:48 PM ADT > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> >=20 > JULY 30, 2015 - MINER=92S MARSH: Just east of the entrance bridge, I = found a brood of six very young pied-billed grebe chicks, which were out = in the open water and attended by a single adult, who was foraging and = feeding them gradually. Also present there was a full-grown young = pied-billed grebe.=20 >=20 > Later at the east end of the marsh I found an adult pied-billed grebe = who seemed to be tending a floating platform that I think was previously = used as a nest. >=20 > I also saw 2 Canada geese; an eastern kingbird; 2 male goldfinches = that were foraging on the drooping tips of multiflora rose canes (but no = food was detectable there by me); plus the usual abundant mallards and = red-winged blackbirds. >=20 > 2-3 green frogs were gronking. >=20 > And both cabbage white and mustard white butterflies were common. A = couple of small orange butterflies were not identified. >=20 > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > = http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnaturalists.= ca --Apple-Mail=_36B3594D-0CBF-41FE-A6EF-C3862AB7B8E3 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] = Miner's Marsh July 30/15 -- new brood of p.-b. grebes, = etc.</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 31, 2015 at = 1:54:48 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;"><b>JULY 30, 2015</b> = - <b>MINER=92S MARSH</b>: Just east of the entrance bridge, I found = a <b>brood of six very young pied-billed grebe chicks</b>, which were = out in the open water and attended by a single adult, who was foraging = and feeding them gradually. Also present there was a full-grown = young pied-billed grebe. </div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; = min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;">Later at the = east end of the marsh I found an adult <b>pied-billed grebe</b> who = seemed to be tending a <b>floating platform</b> that I think was = previously used as a nest.</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: = 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;">I also saw 2 <b>Canada = geese</b>; an<b> eastern kingbird</b>; 2 male <b>goldfinches</b> that = were foraging on the drooping tips of multiflora rose canes (but no food = was detectable there by me); plus the usual abundant mallards and = red-winged blackbirds.</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: = 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;">2-3 <b>green frogs</b> were = gronking.</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: = 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;">And both <b>cabbage = white</b> and <b>mustard white</b> butterflies were common. A = couple of small orange butterflies were not = identified.</div><div><br></div></div>____________________________________= ___________<br>Nature 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=_36B3594D-0CBF-41FE-A6EF-C3862AB7B8E3--
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