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--Apple-Mail=_7DB2EA53-FE16-4125-AC1B-B29C80FB0445 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Begin forwarded message: > From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Subject: peregrine/gyrfalcon?? in Wolfville + robins etc. > Date: February 15, 2016 at 5:22:56 PM AST > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> > Cc: "Jim Wolford ." <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> >=20 > FEB. 13, 2016 - Pat & I enjoyed the sight of 25+ Am. robins plus a = single male n. cardinal along the street close to our apartment in = east-end Wolfville (Woodman Road area). Also seen nearby were bald = eagles, ravens, crows, starlings, goldfinches, song sparrow, mourning = doves, rock pigeons, herring gulls, great black-backed gulls. >=20 > FEB. 15, 2016 - At 3 p.m. at the Acadia Arena parking lot, I had a = brief but good look at a very large flying bird of prey passing by from = east to west =97 it had very long and pointed wings and flew like a very = large peregrine falcon, but was the size of a large red-tailed hawk. I = was too late with my binoculars, but it was a very big falcon, probably = a peregrine but maybe a gyrfalcon?? =46rom what others have said in the = past, a good place to look for it in future would be near Noggins Farm = Market, which always attracts numbers of starlings etc. >=20 > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. --Apple-Mail=_7DB2EA53-FE16-4125-AC1B-B29C80FB0445 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>peregrine/gyrfalcon?? in Wolfville = + robins 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';">February 15, 2016 at = 5:22:56 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>><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>FEB. 13, 2016 </b>- = Pat & I enjoyed the sight of <b>25+ Am. robins</b> plus a single = male <b>n. cardinal</b> along the street close to our apartment in = east-end Wolfville (Woodman Road area). Also seen nearby were bald = eagles, ravens, crows, starlings, goldfinches, song sparrow, mourning = doves, rock pigeons, herring gulls, great black-backed gulls.</div><div = style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: = 0px;"><b>FEB. 15, 2016</b> - At 3 p.m. at the Acadia Arena parking lot, = I had a brief but good look at a <b>very large flying bird of prey</b> = passing by from east to west =97 it had very long and pointed wings and = flew like a very large peregrine falcon, but was the size of a large = red-tailed hawk. I was too late with my binoculars, but it was a = very big falcon, <b>probably a peregrine</b> but maybe a = <b>gyrfalcon</b>?? =46rom what others have said in the past, a = good place to look for it in future would be near Noggins Farm Market, = which always attracts numbers of starlings etc.</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=_7DB2EA53-FE16-4125-AC1B-B29C80FB0445--
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