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On 8/12/2013 4:44 PM, Fred Schueler wrote:
> Something about the schedule of the spring gave the plants the advantage
> this year
* one thing that suggests a delay in Insect life, this year, is that
when I listen for calling Frogs & Toads, I record sources of noise, and
this year "Cricket noise" was very late in arriving. I finish monitoring
on 1 August, and it's only since then that there's been substantial
Cricket noise - tonight is a perfect bedlam.
Also with regard to Bees, we've got lots of worker Bumble Bees all over
now, which suggests that the season has been good for them. We have some
herbicial Corn & Soy around, but not more than 20% of the landscape, and
none really nearby.
fred.
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>
>> And does anyone know of a database
>> somewhere out there in our world of information that has decades of data
>> like we have for breeding birds?
>
> * we're working on that -
> http://fragileinheritance.org/projects/database/dbintro.htm - says
> 86,000, but we're now up to 105,000.
>
> fred.
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>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>
>>> *From: *Blake Maybank <bmaybank@gmail.com <mailto:bmaybank@gmail.com>>
>>> *Date: *August 12, 2013 2:52:49 PM ADT
>>> *To: *naturens@chebucto.ns.ca <mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
>>> *Subject: **[NatureNS] Empty Forests*
>>> *Reply-To: *naturens@chebucto.ns.ca <mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
>>>
>>> 11 August 2013
>>>
>>> I was part of a group that hiked a trail near Moses Mountain in the
>>> beautiful Avon Valley in Western Hants County yesterday. Despite
>>> walking more than 12 km through beautiful deciduous and mixed wood
>>> forests, we encountered very few birds. While I suspect that most of
>>> the migrant breeding birds had departed, why were we unable to detect
>>> a single chickadee, nuthatch, or Blue Jay? We heard a couple of vireos
>>> and a pewee, and one flicker. The one highlight was a soaring Turkey
>>> Vulture, a new species for my Hants County list.
>>>
>>> Plenty of Goldenrod, knapweed, and other often flowers lined the trail
>>> along most of our hike, but we did not encounter a single butterfly.
>>> And there were very few bees in evidence as well, which was also
>>> discouraging.
>>>
>>> On such a beautiful day it is hard to account for the paucity of birds
>>> and butterflies and other wildlife.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Blake Maybank <mailto:bmaybank@gmail.com>
>>> 144 Bayview Drive,
>>> White's Lake, Nova Scotia
>>> B3T 1Z1 CANADA
>>> (902) 852-2077
>>>
>>> My Blog: *CSI: Life* <http://blakemaybank.com>
>>>
>>> Organiser, *Maritimes Nature Travel Club*
>>> <http://tinyurl.com/naturetravel>
>>> __ <http://tinyurl.com/naturetravel>__
>>> Author, "*Birding Sites of Nova Scotia* <http://tinyurl.com/birdingns>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> <mailto:maybank@ns.sympatico.ca>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
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