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--Apple-Mail=_D24526B7-FC3D-4318-8027-7A042730A58E Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Begin forwarded message: > From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Subject: bull frogs, toad calling, etc., Miner's Marsh > Date: May 17, 2016 at 6:27:27 PM ADT > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> > Cc: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>, John Gilhen = <GILHENJA@gov.ns.ca> >=20 > MAY 17, 2016 - MINER=92S MARSH in mid-afternoon =97 sunny, but windy & = cool. >=20 > - red elderberry in bloom in at least 3 places; >=20 > - 2 male bull frogs jug-a-rumming and well spaced apart in the marsh =97= this seems early to me for bull frogs to be calling already?; > [on May 14/16 there were nice afternoon choruses of trilling = toads in two places: Van Nostrand=92s Pond at Starr=92s Point, and in = Gesner=92s Pond (n. of Kentville along Middle Dyke Rd.); >=20 > - 1 American toad was trilling near the picnic table near the river = bridge; >=20 > - 1 pied-billed grebe calling but not seen; > - 2 muskrats seen; > - lots of red-winged blackbirds (one female nest-building) and = grackles, but no swallows seen. > =97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97 > Earlier I went to the New Minas former potato-chip factory location = (ACA Co-op) to take some photos of the new? bald eagle nest in a pine on = the top of the bank of the Cornwallis River. I checked in the office of = the ACA Co-op, and those who were there didn=92t even know about the = presence of this nest, just to the north of the truck depot =97 this = suggests that this nest is indeed new? =97 again no eagles of any age = were seen there today. >=20 > - low-bush blueberry was in bloom on top of the riverbank. > =97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97 >=20 > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. --Apple-Mail=_D24526B7-FC3D-4318-8027-7A042730A58E 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>bull frogs, toad = calling, etc., Miner's Marsh</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 17, 2016 at = 6:27:27 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><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>>, = John Gilhen <<a = href=3D"mailto:GILHENJA@gov.ns.ca">GILHENJA@gov.ns.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>MAY 17, 2016 - MINER=92S MARSH</b> in = mid-afternoon =97 sunny, but windy & cool.</div><div style=3D"margin: = 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;">- <b>red = elderberry</b> in bloom in at least 3 places;</div><div style=3D"margin: = 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;">- 2 = male<b> bull frogs</b> jug-a-rumming and well spaced apart in the marsh = =97 this seems early to me for bull <span class=3D"Apple-tab-span" = style=3D"white-space:pre"> </span>frogs to be calling = already?;</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;"><span class=3D"Apple-tab-span" = style=3D"white-space:pre"> </span>[<b>on May 14/16</b> there were = nice afternoon <b>choruses of trilling toads</b> in two places: Van = Nostrand=92s <span class=3D"Apple-tab-span" style=3D"white-space:pre"> = </span>Pond at Starr=92s Point, and in Gesner=92s Pond (n. of Kentville = along Middle Dyke Rd.);</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: = 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;">- 1 <b>American toad</b> = was trilling near the picnic table near the river bridge;</div><div = style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: = 0px;">- 1 pied-billed grebe calling but not seen;</div><div = style=3D"margin: 0px;">- 2 muskrats seen;</div><div style=3D"margin: = 0px;">- lots of red-winged blackbirds (one female nest-building) and = grackles, but no swallows seen.</div><div style=3D"margin: = 0px;">=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97</div><div style=3D"margin: = 0px;">Earlier I went to the <b>New Minas former potato-chip factory = location (ACA Co-op)</b> to take some photos of the <b>new? bald eagle = nest </b>in a pine on the top of the bank of the Cornwallis River. = I checked in the office of the ACA Co-op, and those who were there = didn=92t even know about the presence of this nest, just to the north of = the truck depot =97 this suggests that this nest is indeed new? =97 = again no eagles of any age were seen there today.</div><div = style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: = 0px;">- low-bush blueberry was in bloom on top of the = riverbank.</div><div style=3D"margin: = 0px;">=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97=97</div><div><br></div><div>Che= ers from Jim in = Wolfville.</div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_D24526B7-FC3D-4318-8027-7A042730A58E--
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