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--Apple-Mail=_CFF935A3-B29A-45BB-AA78-EBE0CC553DFD Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Begin forwarded message: > From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Subject: Pt. Wms. sewer ponds & other bird news > Date: January 21, 2016 at 2:32:07 PM AST > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> > Cc: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>, Alison Bogan = <alison@bogan.ca>, Nancy Nickerson <nicknl@ns.sympatico.ca> >=20 > JAN. 21, 2016 - At home in east-end Wolfville, feeders at our = apartment building (45 Woodman Rd.) have attracted 2 purple finches = (f/imm), in addition to our 30+ goldfinches and a similar number of = mourning doves. >=20 > Sherman Bleakney, at the top of Kent Ave. in Wolfville, had a pine = warbler at his suet two days ago. I wonder if Nancy Nickerson in Port = Williams still has a pine warbler? >=20 > In early afternoon today, I tried to go to the Port Williams = sewage/sewer ponds, and I will blame George Forsyth for this, since he = reported at the BNS meeting Monday evening that 3? n. shovelers had been = seen there up to very recently? This was quite an adventure today, = because the road/track to the ponds was a white-out condition; thus I = parked behind the doctors=92 office building and then walked. This was = great exercise, which I needed, and the last 50 metres was very = difficult, resulting in a couple of falls and some curses. The road is = passable only for a tractor or large high-centered truck. >=20 > When I got to the ponds, predictably about 20+ goldeneyes = (unidentified) all took off from their small spot of open water, leaving = only the usual dense mass of dabbling ducks in the larger pond of open = water plus a single gull, which was an adult Iceland gull. About half = of the surface-feeding ducks flew off, but the remaining 30 ducks = included about 27 mallards, 1 black duck, and a single American? wigeon = (f/imm) and a single f/imm gadwall. (I did have my trusty old spotting = scope.) >=20 > Now, for the sake of those of us (just me?) who don=92t check eBird, = maybe George will send us all some info=92 about when and how many = shovelers were seen there or elsewhere locally? >=20 > For a final note, Alison Bogan now is submitting the final results of = the Wolfville Christmas Bird Count, which was held on Dec. 19, 2015. So = we should be able soon to access those results via Dave Currie and the = N.S. Bird Society Web site. >=20 > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. --Apple-Mail=_CFF935A3-B29A-45BB-AA78-EBE0CC553DFD 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>Pt. Wms. sewer = ponds & other bird 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';">January 21, 2016 at = 2:32:07 PM AST<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';">Jim Wolford <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>>, = Alison Bogan <<a = href=3D"mailto:alison@bogan.ca">alison@bogan.ca</a>>, Nancy Nickerson = <<a = href=3D"mailto:nicknl@ns.sympatico.ca">nicknl@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>JAN. 21, 2016</b> - = At home in east-end Wolfville, feeders at our apartment building (45 = Woodman Rd.) have attracted 2 <b>purple finches</b> (f/imm), in addition = to our 30+ goldfinches and a similar number of mourning doves.</div><div = style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: = 0px;">Sherman Bleakney, at the top of Kent Ave. in Wolfville, had a<b> = pine warbler </b>at his suet two days ago. I wonder if Nancy = Nickerson in Port Williams still has a pine warbler?</div><div = style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: = 0px;">In early afternoon today, I tried to go to the <b>Port Williams = sewage/sewer ponds</b>, and I will blame George Forsyth for this, since = he reported at the BNS meeting Monday evening that 3?<b> n. = shovelers</b> had been seen there up to very recently? This was = quite an adventure today, because the road/track to the ponds was a = white-out condition; thus I parked behind the doctors=92 office building = and then walked. This was great exercise, which I needed, and the = last 50 metres was very difficult, resulting in a couple of falls and = some curses. The road is passable only for a tractor or large = high-centered truck.</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: = 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;">When I got to the ponds, = predictably about <b>20+ goldeneyes</b> (unidentified) all took off from = their small spot of open water, leaving only the usual dense mass of = <b>dabbling ducks</b> in the larger pond of open water plus a single = gull, which was an adult <b>Iceland gull</b>. About half of the = surface-feeding ducks flew off, but the remaining 30 ducks included = about 27 <b>mallards,</b> 1 <b>black duck</b>, and a single <b>American? = wigeon</b> (f/imm) and a single f/imm <b>gadwall</b>. (I did have = my trusty old spotting scope.)</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; = min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;">Now, for the = sake of those of us (just me?) who don=92t check eBird, maybe George = will send us all some info=92 about when and how many shovelers were = seen there or elsewhere locally?</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; = min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;">For a final = note, Alison Bogan now is submitting the final <b>results of the = Wolfville Christmas Bird Count</b>, which was held on Dec. 19, = 2015. So we should be able soon to access those results via Dave = Currie and the N.S. Bird Society Web site.</div><div style=3D"margin: = 0px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;">Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville.</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_CFF935A3-B29A-45BB-AA78-EBE0CC553DFD--
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