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<div>Apart from today's --001a1137c96878c993053141d455 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thanks Eric I've been poking around in that salt marsh habitat. Good habitat. The pools are perched above the level of the outflow stream. I was there poking this week but missed your snowy egret friend. The saltmarsh has two very small very rare plants..red bulrush Blysmus rufus and Carex viridula ssp saxi=C4=BAittoralis. I'm glad to know it may have importance as heron/egre= t habitat. The thick thicket of alder south of the salt marsh is an odd transition to the big meadow bog and I wonder how this will change or whether it was always a thicket. Rare species are useful as habitat indicators and when there are various in a habitat it helps mark that habitat and the forces that shape it. I'm surprised the salt marsh has survived the ditching in the bog above so well. Suppose it means it is mainly shaped by the sea. Nick On Apr 24, 2016 5:03 PM, "Eric Mills" <E.Mills@dal.ca> wrote: > > Nick - > The Snowy Egret is still present along the stream and/or in the pond closest to Water Street, Westport - and so at the extreme northern end of the Big Meadow. This is a place favored by vagrant southern herons. And it is probably close to the 30th recorded from Brier. Range: from the tropics to southern Maine. In the late '80s and early '90s, a few summered on Bon Portage Island and there was at least one successful nesting. > > It will be good to have more pools like that one in the Big Meadow. > > All the best, > > Eric > > Eric L. Mills > Lower Rose Bay > Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia > Canada > From: Nicholas Hill > Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2016 10:09 > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Reply To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Cc: NSRBA > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Harlequin Ducks, Brier Island > > Is the snowy egret around South Pond on Brier? A few gull to consider there. That landscape should change radically as bird habitat. Thanks so much for your remembrances and notes on Big Meadow Bog earlier sent. Range of egret usually from Virginia south? > Nick Hill > > On Apr 23, 2016 7:13 PM, "Eric Mills" <E.Mills@dal.ca> wrote: >> >> Apart from today's Snowy Egret, which was still present actively feeding this afternoon, the sight of the day was a group of 17 Harlequin Ducks that Anne and I watched in Pea Jack Cove. >> >> Eric L. Mills >> Lower Rose Bay=E2=80=8E >> Lunenburg Co., Nova Scotia >> Canada --001a1137c96878c993053141d455 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <p dir=3D"ltr">Thanks Eric<br> I've been poking around in that salt marsh habitat. Good habitat. The p= ools are perched above the level of the outflow stream. I was there poking = this week but missed your snowy egret friend. The saltmarsh has two very sm= all very rare plants..red bulrush Blysmus rufus and Carex viridula ssp saxi= =C4=BAittoralis. I'm glad to know it may have importance as=C2=A0 heron= /egret habitat. The thick thicket of alder south of the salt marsh is an od= d transition to the big meadow bog and I wonder how this will change or whe= ther it was always a thicket.<br> Rare species are useful as habitat indicators and when there are various in= a habitat it helps mark that habitat and the forces that shape it. I'm= surprised the salt marsh has survived the ditching in the bog above so wel= l. Suppose it means it is mainly shaped by the sea. </p> <p dir=3D"ltr">Nick</p> <p dir=3D"ltr">On Apr 24, 2016 5:03 PM, "Eric Mills" <<a href= =3D"mailto:E.Mills@dal.ca">E.Mills@dal.ca</a>> wrote:<br> ><br> > Nick -<br> > The Snowy Egret is still present along the stream and/or in the pond c= losest to Water Street, Westport - and so at the extreme northern end of th= e Big Meadow. This is a place favored by vagrant southern herons. And it is= probably close to the 30th recorded from Brier. Range: from the tropics to= southern Maine. In the late '80s and early '90s, a few summered on= Bon Portage Island and there was at least one successful nesting.<br> ><br> > It will be good to have more pools like that one in the Big Meadow.<br= > ><br> > All the best,<br> ><br> > Eric<br> ><br> > Eric=C2=A0L.=C2=A0Mills=C2=A0<br> > Lower=C2=A0Rose=C2=A0Bay<br> > Lunenburg=C2=A0Co.,=C2=A0Nova=C2=A0Scotia=C2=A0<br> > Canada<br> > From: Nicholas Hill<br> > Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2016 10:09<br> > To: <a href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca= </a><br> > Reply To: <a href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto= .ns.ca</a><br> > Cc: NSRBA<br> > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Harlequin Ducks, Brier Island<br> ><br> > Is the snowy egret around South Pond on Brier? A few gull to consider = there. That landscape should change radically as bird habitat. Thanks so mu= ch for your remembrances and notes on Big Meadow Bog earlier sent. Range of= egret usually from Virginia south?<br> > Nick=C2=A0 Hill<br> ><br> > On Apr 23, 2016 7:13 PM, "Eric Mills" <<a href=3D"mailto:= E.Mills@dal.ca">E.Mills@dal.ca</a>> wrote:<br> >><br> >> Apart from today's Snowy Egret, which was still present active= ly feeding this afternoon, the sight of the day was a group of 17 Harlequin= Ducks that Anne and I watched in Pea Jack Cove.<br> >><br> >> Eric=C2=A0L.=C2=A0Mills=C2=A0<br> >> Lower=C2=A0Rose=C2=A0Bay=E2=80=8E<br> >> Lunenburg=C2=A0Co.,=C2=A0Nova=C2=A0Scotia=C2=A0<br> >> Canada</p> --001a1137c96878c993053141d455--
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