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--Apple-Mail=_3C34D371-7FAE-4276-B1F3-BB83F31AABE8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 A bit more to go with yesterday=92s notes: Yesterday at Wolfville=92s Robie Tufts Nature Centre (see the posted = sightings of chimney swifts there), I looked down to see some tiny = flowering plants in the gravel =97 they were old friends, Latin name = Draba verna, a very small, short plant with divided petals, in the = mustard family, species introduced. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. Begin forwarded message: > From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Subject: [NatureNS] May 23/20 big high tide, eagle nest report, no = bot. gardens open > Date: May 23, 2020 at 4:41:34 PM ADT > To: naturens <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> > Cc: Doug Linzey <doug@fundymud.com> > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca >=20 > MAY 23/20 =97 Today Pat & I drove out to Lower Canard Road, then north = on Wellington Dyke Road (gravel) to the bald eagle nest that Doug Linzey = reported a week ago. Today there wad some confusion, when a red-tailed = hawk flew by the nest very closely, then landed on a nearby power pole. = We didn=92t see an eagle at the nest, but I think I saw a fuzzy head of = an eaglet there. Growing leaves on the poplar? nest-tree make viewing = difficult. >=20 > At 2:20 p.m. the local tides were very high, listed on the BNS = Calendar as 11.5 metres =97 but a strong & very cool wind from the = northeast must have created a big storm surge, so that the actual high = tide level must have been up to about 16 metres? >=20 > Also Pat & I were very disappointed that the Irving Botanical Gardens = at Acadia Univ. are closed off to the public. Through the fence we = could see marsh marigold and white trilliums in bloom. >=20 > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. --Apple-Mail=_3C34D371-7FAE-4276-B1F3-BB83F31AABE8 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;">A bit = more to go with yesterday=92s notes:<div><br></div><div>Yesterday at = Wolfville=92s Robie Tufts Nature Centre (see the posted sightings of = chimney swifts there), I looked down to see some tiny flowering plants = in the gravel =97 they were old friends, Latin name Draba verna, a very = small, short plant with divided petals, in the mustard family, species = introduced.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville.<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>[NatureNS] May = 23/20 big high tide, eagle nest report, no bot. gardens = open</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 23, 2020 at = 4:41:34 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';">naturens <<a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.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>Cc: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Doug Linzey <<a = href=3D"mailto:doug@fundymud.com">doug@fundymud.com</a>><br></span></di= v><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>Reply-To: </b></span><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';"><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a><br></s= pan></div><br><div>MAY 23/20 =97 Today Pat & I drove out to Lower = Canard Road, then north on Wellington Dyke Road (gravel) to the bald = eagle nest that Doug Linzey reported a week ago. Today there wad = some confusion, when a red-tailed hawk flew by the nest very closely, = then landed on a nearby power pole. We didn=92t see an eagle at = the nest, but I think I saw a fuzzy head of an eaglet there. = Growing leaves on the poplar? nest-tree make viewing = difficult.<br><br>At 2:20 p.m. the local tides were very high, listed on = the BNS Calendar as 11.5 metres =97 but a strong & very cool wind = from the northeast must have created a big storm surge, so that the = actual high tide level must have been up to about 16 metres?<br><br>Also = Pat & I were very disappointed that the Irving Botanical Gardens at = Acadia Univ. are closed off to the public. Through the fence we = could see marsh marigold and white trilliums in bloom.<br><br>Cheers = from Jim in = Wolfville.<br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_3C34D371-7FAE-4276-B1F3-BB83F31AABE8--
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