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Index of Subjects --00000000000043939205a7a99955 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear Jim You are the mentor. There must be mentees more than ready to count swifts. Appreciate all you do and communicate your mentee from Biology 103, 1975! Keeler may know of some new naturalists= . Nick On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 1:30 PM Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> wrote: > *JUNE 8/20 =E2=80=94 DUSK AT UNIVERSITY HALL, ACADIA UNIV., WOLFVILLE*. = Nice > evening, 15 degrees C., clear sky, no wind or very slight breze from east= . > > I arrived at 8:48 p.m. (sunset time was 8:57 in Herald newspaper). My > eyesight acuity is terrible now, so that I cannot see the *chimney swifts= * > at the distances tried tonight, and I often had to use my binoculars, whi= ch > meant I could only see a small part of the sky. > > I saw up to 4 flying swifts from 8:52 on, and the first entries into the > sw. chimney were at about 9:05, then sporadically until 9:21. > > My guess is that I saw a *total of 20+ chimney swifts*, but there could > have been substantially more than that. > > Now we need some better observers to monitor the numbers there. Tony > Napoli last watched at Robie Tufts Nature Centre on June 6 but saw no > swifts at all. > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville =E2=80=94 Now both my visual acuity and driv= ing > skills at night are inadequate for this task of dusk monitoring, so I hav= e > to quit. > --=20 Dr. N.M.Hill Fern Hill Institute of Plant Conservation 424 Bentley Road, Berwick, NS, B0P 1E0 phone 902-698-0416 --00000000000043939205a7a99955 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"">Dear Jim</div><div= class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"">You are the mentor. There=C2=A0must be = mentees more than ready to count swifts.</div><div class=3D"gmail_default" = style=3D"">Appreciate all you do and communicate=C2=A0</div><div class=3D"g= mail_default" style=3D"">your mentee from Biology 103, 1975! Keeler may kno= w of some new naturalists.</div><div class=3D"gmail_default" style=3D"">Nic= k</div></div><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail= _attr">On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 1:30 PM Jim Wolford <<a href=3D"mailto:jim= wolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockq= uote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1p= x solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style=3D"overflow-wrap: bre= ak-word;"><div style=3D"margin:0px"><b>JUNE 8/20 =E2=80=94 DUSK AT UNIVERSI= TY HALL, ACADIA UNIV., WOLFVILLE</b>.=C2=A0 Nice evening, 15 degrees C., cl= ear sky, no wind or very slight breze from east.</div><div style=3D"margin:= 0px;min-height:14px"><br></div><div style=3D"margin:0px">I arrived at 8:48 = p.m. (sunset time was 8:57 in Herald newspaper).=C2=A0 My eyesight acuity i= s terrible now, so that I cannot see the <b>chimney swifts</b> at the dista= nces tried tonight, and I often had to use my binoculars, which meant I cou= ld only see a small part of the sky.</div><div style=3D"margin:0px;min-heig= ht:14px"><br></div><div style=3D"margin:0px">I saw up to 4 flying swifts fr= om 8:52 on, and the first entries into the sw. chimney were at about 9:05, = then sporadically until 9:21. =C2=A0</div><div style=3D"margin:0px;min-heig= ht:14px"><br></div><div style=3D"margin:0px">My guess is that I saw a <b>to= tal of 20+ chimney swifts</b>, but there could have been substantially more= than that. =C2=A0</div><div style=3D"margin:0px;min-height:14px"><br></div= ><div style=3D"margin:0px">Now we need some better observers to monitor the= numbers there.=C2=A0 Tony Napoli last watched at Robie Tufts Nature Centre= on June 6 but saw no swifts at all.</div><div style=3D"margin:0px"><br></d= iv><div style=3D"margin:0px">Cheers from Jim in Wolfville =E2=80=94 Now bot= h my visual acuity and driving skills at night are inadequate for this task= of dusk monitoring, so I have to quit.</div></div></blockquote></div><br c= lear=3D"all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_signatur= e">Dr. N.M.Hill<br>Fern Hill Institute of Plant Conservation<br>424 Bentley= Road, Berwick, NS, B0P 1E0<br><br>phone 902-698-0416</div> --00000000000043939205a7a99955--
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