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--Apple-Mail-253-440024267 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Begin forwarded message: > From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Date: October 22, 2013 5:24:11 PM ADT > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca>, Julie Paquet > <Julie.Paquet@ec.gc.ca>, Mark F Elderkin <elderkmf@gov.ns.ca> > Subject: [ValleyNature] nature notes, -- White Pt. bunnies, water > bug, gray squirrel, bat, chipmunk > > OCT. 12 to 14, 2013 - Pat & I decided on a whim to get a change of > scenery by driving first to Lunenburg for one night, then to White > Point for the second night, before returning to Wolfville on > Thanksgiving Monday, Oct. 14. We had lovely sunny weather for the > whole weekend, and as warm as it can be at this somewhat latish > date in the autumn, plus nice fall colours in various places. > > White Point Lodge gives out free bags of rabbit food, and in late > afternoon I saw 5 of the white or mostly white European rabbits; I > suspect they spend most of the day underneath the buildings on the > lodge grounds. Signage on the property saying that "Children and > Bunnies are Everywhere!", plus the speed-bumps, must be to protect > both humans and rabbits. > > I also found the home and gallery of Marg Millard, and it was nice > to meet her and her partner and see her yard and grape-vines. > > OCT. 19, 2013 - N.S. Nature Trust hosted a group of about 15 of us > for a late-morning walk in the Wolfville Watershed Nature Reserve > southeast of Gaspereau. They also provided lunch, and then I left > them to join a second field trip in Kentville at Ed Sulis's home on > Big Trees at 107 Canaan Avenue (Blomidon Naturalists Society). A > fairly large group of perhaps 30 people? showed up at the Sulis > home and yard, which abuts the Kentville Ravine. > > Nancy Nickerson told me that yesterday? she found a dead giant > water bug lying on the pavement of the parking lot of Sobey's store > in New Minas. > > OCT. 20, 2013 - Among the birds at our feeders, including two new > white-throated sparrows, was a still-active chipmunk. > > Miner's Marsh in early afternoon: at least two pied-billed grebes, > 2 green-winged teals (I heard several to lots were there yesterday, > from Bob & Wendy McDonald), and a gray-phase gray squirrel (running > south from the bridge area. > > OCT. 21, 2013 - A week ago, at dusk on Oct. 14, 2013, over a > residential large pond just off Grandview Ave. in Wolfville, Erin > Hennessy saw a flying small bat, probably a little brown bat. > > Tonight was the first-ever joint meeting of the Valley Gardeners > with the Blomidon Naturalists Society, for a panel discussion of > ALIEN INVASIVE ORGANISMS (mainly plants tonight), with three panel > members: George Alliston, Graham Daborn, and Mark Elderkin. About > 90+ people showed up, plus two club presidents and three panelists. > > Nancy & Fred Chipman told me after the meeting that either on Oct. > 19 or 20, a gray-phase gray squirrel was seen on their property > along Kent Ave. in Wolfville. And two other people in tonight's > audience mentioned that they have seen gray squirrels where they > live at Cambridge. > > OCT. 22, 2013 - At our feeders, the chipmunk is still active, as is > the raccoon(s) getting my bird pies plus sunflower seeds. > > In Wolfville Harbour at high tide, 2 unidentified peeps flushed > from the rocks along the railroad tracks, but no yellowlegs at all. > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/ > nature_blomidonnaturalists.ca --Apple-Mail-253-440024267 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; "> <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">"James W. Wolford" <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</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">October 22, 2013 5:24:11 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">Nature BNS <<a = href=3D"mailto:nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a>>, Julie Paquet <<a = href=3D"mailto:Julie.Paquet@ec.gc.ca">Julie.Paquet@ec.gc.ca</a>>, = Mark F Elderkin <<a = href=3D"mailto:elderkmf@gov.ns.ca">elderkmf@gov.ns.ca</a>></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>Subject: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica"><b>[ValleyNature] nature notes, -- White Pt. bunnies, water = bug, gray squirrel, bat, chipmunk</b></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; 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. 12 to 14, 2013 </b>- Pat & I decided on a = whim to get a change of scenery by driving first<b> to Lunenburg</b> for = one night,<b> then to White Point </b>for the second night, before = returning to Wolfville on <b>Thanksgiving Monday</b>, Oct. 14. We = had lovely sunny weather for the whole weekend, and as warm as it can be = at this somewhat latish date in the autumn, plus nice fall colours in = various places.</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">White Point Lodge gives out free bags of rabbit food, = and in late afternoon I saw 5 of the white or mostly white <b>European = rabbits</b>; I suspect they spend most of the day underneath the = buildings on the lodge grounds. Signage on the property saying = that "Children and Bunnies are Everywhere!", plus the speed-bumps, must = be to protect both humans and rabbits.</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">I also = found the <b>home and gallery of Marg Millard</b>, and it was nice to = meet her and her partner and see her yard and = grape-vines.</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. 19, 2013</b> - <b>N.S. Nature Trust </b>hosted = a group of about 15 of us for a late-morning walk in the <b>Wolfville = Watershed Nature Reserve </b>southeast of Gaspereau. They also = provided lunch, and then I left them to join a second field trip in = Kentville at <b>Ed Sulis's home on Big Trees </b>at 107 Canaan Avenue = (Blomidon Naturalists Society). A fairly large group of perhaps 30 = people? showed up at the Sulis home and yard, which abuts the Kentville = Ravine.</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">Nancy Nickerson told me that yesterday? she found a = dead<b> giant water bug lying </b>on the pavement of the parking lot of = Sobey's store in New Minas.</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. 20, 2013</b> - Among the birds at our feeders, = including two new <b>white-throated sparrows</b>, was a still-active = <b>chipmunk</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>Miner's Marsh</b> in early afternoon: at least = two<b> pied-billed grebes</b>, 2 <b>green-winged teals</b> (I heard = several to lots were there yesterday, from Bob & Wendy McDonald), = and a <b>gray-phase gray squirrel </b>(running south from the bridge = area.</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. 21, 2013</b> - A week ago, at dusk on Oct. 14, = 2013, over a residential large pond just off Grandview Ave. in = Wolfville, Erin Hennessy saw a fl<b>ying small bat</b>, probably a = little brown bat.</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">Tonight was the first-ever<b> joint meeting of the = Valley Gardeners with the Blomidon Naturalists Society</b>, for a panel = discussion of <b>ALIEN INVASIVE ORGANISMS</b> (mainly plants tonight), = with three <b>panel members: George Alliston, Graham Daborn, and Mark = Elderkin</b>. About 90+ people showed up, plus two club presidents = and three panelists.</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">Nancy & Fred Chipman told me after the meeting = that either on Oct. 19 or 20, a gray-phase <b>gray squirrel </b>was seen = on their property along Kent Ave. in <b>Wolfville</b>. And two = other people in tonight's audience mentioned that they have seen <b>gray = squirrels</b> where they live at <b>Cambridge</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>OCT. = 22, 2013 </b>- At our feeders, the <b>chipmunk</b> is still active, as = is the <b>raccoon(s) </b>getting my bird pies plus sunflower = seeds.</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">In Wolfville Harbour at high tide, <b>2 unidentified = peeps</b> flushed from the rocks along the railroad tracks, but no = yellowlegs at all.</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 style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = ">_______________________________________________</div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">Nature mailing list</div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a = href=3D"mailto:Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">Nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a = href=3D"http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnatu= ralists.ca">http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidon= naturalists.ca</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-253-440024267--
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