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--Apple-Mail-5--686066926 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed ["Ode" means dragonflies/damselflies (Odonata), "leps" means Lepidopterans, e.g. butterflies, moths, skippers.] OCT. 25, 2012 - I think I heard a fox sparrow song today (just once) just before dusk in Wolfville. New at my feeder was a red-breasted nuthatch. And my chipmunk was still active today. OCT. 26, 2012 - chipmunk still active in my Wolfville yard; - Gesner's Pond: 9 hooded mergansers, including 3 males and 6 females or immatures. Stella's Pond (Ducks Unlimited Can.): 3 female or imm. hooded mergansers. Canning Aboiteau: 8 greater yellowlegs seen standing in the very shallow water of the distant bend of the Habitant River toward town from the aboiteau -- I was very far from them, but the identification is pretty certain (scoped). Habitant River in Canning: about 40 mallards, ca. 10 black ducks. Harris's Pond in Canning: 500 Canada geese and 10+ gulls. Silver Lake, Lakeville: no geese, 20 herring gulls, 7+ hooded mergansers. MINER'S MARSH, Kentville: 11+ Wilson's snipes (foraging or sleeping, mostly in 2s -- from the marsh end of the bridge over the river, turn left, then look along the edges of the small island or the trailside edge of the marsh; - lots of small, dark brownish, skimmer dragonflies that were flying about everywhere and landing on people (one pair was in tandem) (beautiful Sunny & fairly calm & warmish afternoon); - 1 painted lady butterfly seen very well, and 2+ clouded sulphurs; - a few fruit-pods of common milkweed had clusters of seeds adhering to the pods and very beautiful in the Sunlight -- oodles of pods have not yet opened; - 20+ mallards, 3+ black ducks, 4+ green-winged teals; - interesting and variously sized tracks in the mud of the bank of the Cornwallis River (look down from the bridge) were probably all from raccoons? Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. --Apple-Mail-5--686066926 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII <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"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial"><b>["Ode" means = dragonflies/damselflies (Odonata), "leps" means Lepidopterans, e.g. = butterflies, moths, skippers.]</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px = Arial"><b><br></b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 13.0px Arial"><b>OCT. 25, 2012 = </b>- </font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">I think I heard a <b>fox sparrow song</b> today (just once) = just before dusk in Wolfville. New at my feeder was a<b> = red-breasted nuthatch</b>. And my <b>chipmunk </b>was still active = today.</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"><b>OCT. 26, 2012</b> - <b>chipmunk</b> still active in = my Wolfville yard; </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">- <b>Gesner's Pond: </b>9 <b>hooded mergansers</b>, = including 3 males and 6 females or immatures.</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"><b>Stella's Pond</b> (Ducks Unlimited Can.): 3 female = or imm. <b>hooded mergansers</b>.</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"><b>Canning Aboiteau</b>: = <b>8 greater yellowlegs</b> seen standing in the very shallow water of = the distant bend of the Habitant River toward town from the aboiteau -- = I was very far from them, but the identification is pretty certain = (scoped).</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"><b>Habitant River </b>in Canning: about 40 = <b>mallards</b>, ca. 10 <b>black ducks</b>.</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"><b>Harris's Pond </b>in Canning: 500 <b>Canada geese </b>and = 10+ gulls.</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"><b>Silver Lake, Lakeville</b>: <b>no geese,</b> 20<b> = herring gulls</b>, 7+<b> hooded mergansers.</b></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; "><b></b><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"><b>MINER'S MARSH, </b>Kentville: <b>11+ Wilson's snipes</b> = (foraging or sleeping, mostly in 2s -- from the marsh end of the bridge = over the river, turn left, then look along the edges of the small island = or the trailside edge of the marsh; </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">- lots of = <b>small, dark brownish, skimmer dragonflies</b> that were flying about = everywhere and landing on people (one pair was in tandem)(beautiful = Sunny & fairly calm & warmish afternoon);</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">- 1<b> = painted lady</b> butterfly seen very well, and 2+ <b>clouded = sulphurs</b>; </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">- a few fruit-pods of <b>common milkweed</b> had = clusters of <b>seeds adhering to the pods</b> and very <b>beautiful = </b>in the Sunlight -- oodles of pods have not yet = opened; </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">- 20+ <b>mallards</b>, 3+ <b>black ducks,</b> 4+<b> = green-winged teals</b>;</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">- interesting and variously sized<b> tracks in the = mud</b> of the bank of the Cornwallis River (look down from the bridge) = were probably all from <b>raccoons</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" 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> </body></html>= --Apple-Mail-5--686066926--
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