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Dear All, One of the great features of the natural world is that some events are unpredictable. Over the last 39 years I have spent many thousands of hours in my North Alton woodlot either working, walking to work or just taking walks/sits. So one might suppose that the events on sixty some acres would be as predictable as the seasonal day length cycle; far from true. I nearly always see a few adult Wood Frogs each year and normally no young but one day a large area was teeming with very small Wood Frogs; never seen again. Secondary succession of plant cover, especially following some disturbance takes place sometimes at breath-taking speed; now you see it now you don't all in a year or few. One year the shallows of a lake in Cape Breton were teeming with a species of Green Newt. I have been to that Lake many times but saw Newts only that one time. But I agree the predictable is also rewarding. One year when in grad school in California, we visited a pass which was well known as a Robin migration choke point. What a thrill to see this variously broad or narrow carpet of Robins snaking south in a broad valley and then rising abruptly to cross the pass, just overhead, in a continuous rumble of wings. Yt, DW, Kentville
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