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style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibr --047d7bd91f420668450542dd4b67 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I believe there are several possibilities, but the one I would consider first is the Whitespotted Sawyer *Monochamus scutellatus . See here: https://tidcf.nrcan.gc.ca/en/insects/factsheet/900 <https://tidcf.nrcan.gc.ca/en/insects/factsheet/900>* *Good luck!* *Ron* On Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Donna Crossland <dcrossland@eastlink.ca> wrote: > Three Gray Jays on Nov 26th were present on a polygons now declared by > DNR to be =E2=80=9Cpartially harvested=E2=80=9D and the majority to be = =E2=80=9Cclearcut=E2=80=9D about a > km north of Lake Paul, Kings Co. (They are posted on DNR map viewer.) > Nearly everything is clearcut out that way already, and this after > recovering from earlier forest fires lit by our forefathers for one reaso= n > or another, including accidental. The stands now support a moss-covered > floor under a closed canopy in many places and a rich assortment of > arboreal lichens on young red maple and sugar maple trunks. > > > > Also, two Gray Jays are still at my mother=E2=80=99s house on Mack Lake, = East > Dalhousie. Last year, a bobcat stole the deer fat I had nailed to a tree > for them. That=E2=80=99s okay... > > > > I am checking the burn sites from last summer near Keji for Three-toed > woodpeckers. There are post-burn wood-boring insects at the bases of > balsam fir trees. Species anyone? I=E2=80=99ve seen Blackbacks after su= ch insects > on a post-burn site in late fall after a fire in Kouchibouguac, NB. They > would fly to each tree base and flake off the bark to expose the large, > =E2=80=98full meal-sized=E2=80=99 larvae I don=E2=80=99t know what insect= drills the bases of the > burned balsam firs, but it is a =E2=80=9Cpost-fire=E2=80=9D species, no d= oubt. Can anyone > help me out? I=E2=80=99ll got out this week and see if I can collect som= e of the > larvae if they are still present. The bore holes are quite large. > > > > Donna Crossland > > > > *From:* naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@ > chebucto.ns.ca <naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca>] *On Behalf Of *Richard > Stern > *Sent:* December-03-16 6:54 PM > *To:* naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > *Subject:* Re: [NatureNS] Update to the Blake Maybank Winter Bird List > (114) > > > > The northern shovelers at the Port Williams sewage lagoons were there Dec > 1. > > R. > > > > On Sat, Dec 3, 2016 at 6:26 PM bdigout <bdigout@seaside.ns.ca> wrote: > > I had a Ruffed Grouse at my deer blind today in Oban, Rich. Co. > > Billy > > On 03 Dec 2016 17:35, Keith Lowe wrote: > > We are now up too 114 speies, this includes Dec 1, Dec 2 and as many from > Dec 3 as what I=E2=80=99m aware of at this point. > > > > Here are some notable misses so far. > > > > Wood Duck > > Northern Shoveler > > Ruffed Grouse > > Spruce Grouse > > Rough-legged Hawk > > Ruddy Turnstone > > Glaucous Gull > > Great Horned Owl > > Peregrine Falcon > > Northern Shrike > > Gray Jay > > Winter Wren > > Ruby-crowned Kinglet > > Gray Catbird > > Northern Mockingbird > > Lapland Longspur > > Common Yellowthroat > > Palm Warbler > > Chipping Sparrow > > Fox Sparrow > > White-crowned Sparrow > > Brown-headed Cowbird > > Pine Grosbeak > > House Finch > > Red Crossbill > > White-winged Crossbill > > Common Redpoll > > Pine Siskin > > > > The next time Peter uploads the spreadsheet, you will be able to see all > the species we have on the WBL so far at > > www.nsbirdsociety.ca /Library / Winter Birds > > > > > > Keith Lowe > > > > > > > > -- > > Richard stern Sent from Gmail Mobile On my IPhone > --=20 Ronald G. Arsenault Halifax, Nova Scotia --047d7bd91f420668450542dd4b67 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-size:small">I b= elieve there are several possibilities, but the one I would consider first = is the Whitespotted Sawyer=C2=A0<em style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;color:rg= b(51,51,51);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-ser= if;font-size:16px">Monochamus scutellatus . See here: =C2=A0<a href=3D"http= s://tidcf.nrcan.gc.ca/en/insects/factsheet/900">https://tidcf.nrcan.gc.ca/e= n/insects/factsheet/900</a></em></div><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D= "font-size:small"><em style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);fo= nt-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:1= 6px"><br></em></div><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-size:small">= <em style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"he= lvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Good luck!</e= m></div><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-size:small"><em style=3D= "box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"helvetica neue= ",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br></em></div><div class= =3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-size:small"><em style=3D"box-sizing:border= -box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,a= rial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Ron</em></div><div class=3D"gmail_default" = style=3D"font-size:small"><em style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,5= 1,51);font-family:"helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;fon= t-size:16px"><br></em></div><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"font-size= :small"><em style=3D"box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:= "helvetica neue",helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br><= /em></div></div><div class=3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">O= n Sun, Dec 4, 2016 at 3:17 PM, Donna Crossland <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a hre= f=3D"mailto:dcrossland@eastlink.ca" target=3D"_blank">dcrossland@eastlink.c= a</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margi= n:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang=3D"EN-C= A" link=3D"blue" vlink=3D"purple"><div class=3D"m_2745864953786399360WordSe= ction1"><