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--Boundary_(ID_f0apolZnJRWJ6R1EV+78SA) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT OCT. 10, 2011 - Two juvenile n. cardinals on the ground foraging under our Wolfville feeders. Later I saw a male cardinal and a fledged juvenile at the feeders at the same time, but not interacting; the juvenile had very little crest and was foraging OK on its own, as far as I could tell (our blue jays manage to spill a lot of seeds onto the ground for other birds). At noon Pat & I drove to Kentville and walked the Miner's Marsh trails. Immediately we found Richard Stern, who had just seen an indigo bunting (female or imm.) in a tangle not far from the river bridge. We saw 1-2 double-crested cormorants (immatures), perhaps 10 mallards, 2 black ducks, 1 green-winged teal, blue jays, and an uncounted noisy roost of red-winged blackbirds in the cattails -- why would they be apparently roosting at mid-day and not out foraging? (I would expect them to come into the cattails at dusk and spend the night there)? Also we saw 3 unidentified sulphur butterflies, probably clouded sulphurs? Also the common milkweed plants, which are abundant not far from the river bridge, showed a lot of open and opening pods and beautiful silky seeds. Pat & I checked out Wolfville Harbour at about 1.5 hours after high tide: a pair of mallards, a single adult ring-billed gull, and only 2 shorebirds seen: a single spotted sandpiper and a single semipalmated sandpiper, and no yellowlegs of either kind. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. --Boundary_(ID_f0apolZnJRWJ6R1EV+78SA) 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; "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>OCT. = 10, 2011</b> - Two juvenile <b>n. cardinals</b> on the ground foraging = under our Wolfville feeders. Later I saw a male <b>cardinal = </b>and a fledged juvenile at the feeders at the same time, but not = interacting; the juvenile had very little crest and was foraging OK on = its own, as far as I could tell (our blue jays manage to spill a lot of = seeds onto the ground for other birds). </font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">At noon = Pat & I drove to <b>Kentville</b> and walked the <b>Miner's = Marsh</b> trails. Immediately we found Richard Stern, who had just = seen an<b> indigo bunting</b> (female or imm.) in a tangle not far from = the river bridge. We saw 1-2 double-crested cormorants = (immatures), perhaps 10 mallards, 2 black ducks, 1 green-winged teal, = blue jays, and an uncounted <b>noisy roost of red-winged blackbirds</b> = in the cattails -- why would they be apparently roosting at mid-day and = not out foraging? (I would expect them to come into the cattails at dusk = and spend the night there)? Also we saw 3 unidentified <b>sulphur = butterflies</b>, probably clouded sulphurs? </font><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 12px; ">Also the = <b>common milkweed</b> plants, which are abundant not far from the river = bridge, showed a lot of <b>open and opening pods</b> and beautiful = <b>silky seeds</b>.</span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">Pat & I checked out <b>Wolfville Harbour </b>at = about 1.5 hours after high tide: a pair of <b>mallards</b>, a single = adult <b>ring-billed gull</b>, and only 2 shorebirds seen: a single<b> = spotted sandpiper</b> and a single <b>semipalmated sandpiper</b>, and no = yellowlegs of either kind.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica"><br></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville.</font></div><div><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br></font></div> </body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_f0apolZnJRWJ6R1EV+78SA)--
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