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Index of Subjects --Boundary_(ID_TL4uM7AePQcM7Uw3o07DOw) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Thanks, Richard. I think it's worth pointing out that, when the tide is partly or completely out of the Harbour, and this is true also for the Windsor Causeway, many of the black ducks, mallards, and green- winged teals often appear to be literally eating and sieving the intertidal mud. These "yummy muds of Minas", to quote Sherman Bleakney, are incredibly organically rich with lots of living and formerly living organisms and their parts, and we can only speculate on what the puddle-ducks are getting from the mud. But it could include the single-celled algae called diatoms, which migrate to the mud surface on every ebbing and low tide, plus polychaete worms, mud shrimps of all ages and sizes, and who knows what else, including the decaying old salt-marsh grasses. Food for thought? Also apparently the small sandpipers can forage for the microscopic diatoms on the surface, not only in the daytime, but during Moonlit low tides at night! I hear that the research group at Mt. Allison Univ., and perhaps also the diatom researchers at St. Mary's Univ.?, have been studying this over the past decade or more. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville Begin forwarded message: > From: Richard Stern <sternrichard@gmail.com> > Date: September 10, 2011 2:09:39 PM ADT > To: NatureNS <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> > Subject: [NatureNS] Wolfville Harbor birds > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > Hi, > > About 1 1/2 hours before high tide today in Wolfville Harbor - 1 F. > N.Pintail, 2 F.Green-winged Teal, several Mallards and Blacks, 1 > Ring-billed Gull, ~20 Gr.Yellowlegs, 2 Lr.Yellowlegs, ~100 > Semipalm. sandpipers. > > Richard > > -- > ################# > Richard Stern, > Port Williams, NS, Canada > sternrichard@gmail.com > ################### --Boundary_(ID_TL4uM7AePQcM7Uw3o07DOw) Content-type: text/html; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> Thanks, Richard. I think it's worth pointing out that, when the = tide is partly or completely out of the Harbour, and this is true also = for the Windsor Causeway, many of the black ducks, mallards, and = green-winged teals often appear to be literally eating and sieving the = intertidal mud. These "yummy muds of Minas", to quote Sherman = Bleakney, are incredibly organically rich with lots of living and = formerly living organisms and their parts, and we can only speculate on = what the puddle-ducks are getting from the mud. But it could = include the single-celled algae called diatoms, which migrate to the mud = surface on every ebbing and low tide, plus polychaete worms, mud shrimps = of all ages and sizes, and who knows what else, including the decaying = old salt-marsh grasses. Food for thought?<div><br></div><div>Also = apparently the small sandpipers can forage for the microscopic diatoms = on the surface, not only in the daytime, but during Moonlit low tides at = night! I hear that the research group at Mt. Allison Univ., and = perhaps also the diatom researchers at St. Mary's Univ.?, have been = studying this over the past decade or = more.</div><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; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">Richard Stern <<a = href=3D"mailto:sternrichard@gmail.com">sternrichard@gmail.com</a>></fon= t></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">September 10, 2011 2:09:39 PM = ADT</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">NatureNS <<a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a>></f= ont></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[NatureNS] Wolfville Harbor = birds</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font>= </div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> Hi,<br><br>About 1 = 1/2 hours before high tide today in Wolfville Harbor - 1 F. N.Pintail, 2 = F.Green-winged Teal, several Mallards and Blacks, 1 Ring-billed Gull, = ~20 Gr.Yellowlegs, 2 Lr.Yellowlegs, ~100 Semipalm. sandpipers.<br> = <br>Richard<br clear=3D"all"><br>-- <br>#################<br>Richard = Stern, <br>Port Williams, NS, Canada<br><a = href=3D"mailto:sternrichard@gmail.com" = target=3D"_blank">sternrichard@gmail.com</a><br>###################<br></b= lockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_TL4uM7AePQcM7Uw3o07DOw)--
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