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--Apple-Mail-1--413704306 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca>, Ken McKenna > <kenmcken@eastlink.ca> > Subject: [ValleyNature] Fwd: [NatureNS] local eagles, robins, cedar > waxwings, King's County > > Sorry, Ken, good observation -- we have had cedar waxwings off and > on (often with robins) in Wolfville this winter since mid-December, > and here is what my journal said on Feb. 12, 2014: Happily, my > Norway rats are no longer in evidence and apparently have been > absent for a couple of weeks at least. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > > FEB. 12, 2014 - After another very cold night, this morning I was > listening to Bob Fournier on CBC's Information Morning NS, when I > saw at least 5 cedar waxwings in our yard, doubtlessly seeking and > finding multiflora-rose hips. A bit later I saw at least 10 Am. > robins, probably foraging on the same hips. Later the same day, > Jake MacDonald in east Wolfville called to report a large bunch (50 > or more?) of robins and cedar waxwings. > > Also it was good to see our neighbourhood red-tailed hawk soaring > nearby. Maybe it can take one or both of my durable and wary > Norway rats. > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > >> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] local eagles, robins, cedar waxwings, >> King's County >> >> >> Ken McKenna >> Box 218 Stellarton NS >> B0K 1S0 >> 902 752-7644 >> >> Hi Jim >> I note Cedar waxwings in your title to this email but no reference >> in the body to this. >> >> Ken >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: James W. Wolford >> To: NatureNS >> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 8:42 PM >> Subject: [NatureNS] local eagles, robins, cedar waxwings, King's >> County >> >> >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >>> From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> >>> Date: February 21, 2014 5:30:44 PM AST >>> To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> >>> Subject: [ValleyNature] local eagles, robins, cedar waxwings, >>> King's County >>> >>> FEB. 21, 2014 - Brenda Thexton and her son Bob drove around >>> locally during the last two days; yesterday they saw 40+ bald >>> eagles, and today there were over 30 bald eagles in the Grand Pre >>> area. It would be interesting to know roughly what the ratio of >>> adult:immature eagles was, since back on Feb. 2 our annual count >>> of eagles and other raptors had a ratio of 60 adults; 40 >>> immatures. This month we guess that a proportion of the >>> overwintering adults disperse back toward wherever their nesting >>> territories are. Of course, many of the wintering adults here >>> are probably also local nesters (we guess there must be perhaps >>> at least 25 local nests and quite possibly many more than that -- >>> another reason to be interested in the results of the 2nd >>> Maritimes Breeding Bird Atlas. >>> >>> Brenda & Bob also report that, 3 days ago, there were about 35+ >>> robins in easternmost Wolfville. This is probably part of the >>> same assemblage seen in western and eastern Wolfville on Feb. 12 >>> by myself and Jake MacDonald, respectively. >>> >>> Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Nature mailing list >>> Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca >>> http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/ >>> nature_blomidonnaturalists.ca >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/ > nature_blomidonnaturalists.ca --Apple-Mail-1--413704306 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><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>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>>, Ken McKenna <<a = href=3D"mailto:kenmcken@eastlink.ca">kenmcken@eastlink.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] Fwd: [NatureNS] local = eagles, robins, cedar waxwings, King's County</b></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> Sorry, Ken, good = observation -- we have had cedar waxwings off and on (often with robins) = in Wolfville this winter since mid-December, and here is what my journal = said on Feb. 12, 2014: Happily, my Norway rats are no longer in = evidence and apparently have been absent for a couple of weeks at least. = Cheers from Jim in Wolfville.<div><br></div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"5" style=3D"font: = 16.0px Helvetica"><b>FEB. 12, 2014</b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"5" color=3D"#2d601a" style=3D"font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: = #2d601a"> - After another very cold night, this morning I was listening = to Bob Fournier on CBC's Information Morning NS, when I saw at least 5 = </font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"5" style=3D"font: 16.0px = Helvetica"><b>cedar waxwings</b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"5"= color=3D"#2d601a" style=3D"font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #2d601a"> in = our yard, doubtlessly seeking and finding multiflora-rose hips. A = bit later I saw at least 10 </font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"5" = style=3D"font: 16.0px Helvetica"><b>Am. robins</b></font><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"5" color=3D"#2d601a" style=3D"font: 16.0px = Helvetica; color: #2d601a">, probably foraging on the same hips. = Later the same day, Jake MacDonald in east Wolfville called to report a = large bunch (50 or more?) of robins and cedar waxwings.</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; = color: rgb(45, 96, 26); min-height: 19px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"5" color=3D"#2d601a" = style=3D"font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: #2d601a">Also it was good to see = our neighbourhood </font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"5" = style=3D"font: 16.0px Helvetica"><b>red-tailed hawk </b></font><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"5" color=3D"#2d601a" style=3D"font: 16.0px = Helvetica; color: #2d601a">soaring nearby. Maybe it can take one = or both of my durable and wary </font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"5" = style=3D"font: 16.0px Helvetica"><b>Norway rats</b></font><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"5" color=3D"#2d601a" style=3D"font: 16.0px = Helvetica; color: #2d601a">.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"5" color=3D"#2d601a" style=3D"font: 16.0px = Helvetica; color: #2d601a"><br></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"5" color=3D"#2d601a" style=3D"font: 16.0px = Helvetica; color: #2d601a">Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"5" color=3D"#2d601a" style=3D"font: 16.0px Helvetica; color: = #2d601a"><br></font></div><div><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>Subject: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica"><b>Re: [NatureNS] local eagles, robins, cedar waxwings, = King's County</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: = 14px; "><br></div> <div><font size=3D"2" = face=3D"Arial"></font> </div><div><font size=3D"2" face=3D"Arial">Ken= McKenna<br>Box 218 Stellarton NS<br>B0K 1S0<br>902 = 752-7644<br></font></div><blockquote style=3D"border-left-color: rgb(0, = 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: = 5px; padding-right: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px; "><div = style=3D"font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; = "> </div><div style=3D"font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal = arial; "><font size=3D"3">Hi Jim</font></div><div style=3D"font: normal = normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><font size=3D"3">I note Cedar = waxwings in your title to this email but no reference in the body to = this.</font></div><div style=3D"font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal = arial; "><font size=3D"3"></font> </div><div style=3D"font: normal = normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><font size=3D"3">Ken</font></div><div = style=3D"font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><font = size=3D"3"></font> </div><div style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 10pt/normal arial; "><font size=3D"3"></font> </div><div = style=3D"font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; ">----- Original = Message -----</div><div style=3D"font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal = arial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; = background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: = rgb(228, 228, 228); background-position: initial initial; = background-repeat: initial initial; "><b>From:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = title=3D"jimwolford@eastlink.ca" = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">James W. Wolford</a></div><div = style=3D"font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>To:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = title=3D"naturens@chebucto.ns.ca" = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">NatureNS</a></div><div = style=3D"font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; = "><b>Sent:</b><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, = February 21, 2014 8:42 PM</div><div style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Subject:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>[NatureNS] local eagles, = robins, cedar waxwings, King's = County</div><div><br></div><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 color=3D"#000000" size=3D"3"= face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal = Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>From:<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font size=3D"3" = face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal = 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 color=3D"#000000" size=3D"3" = face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal = Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Date:<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font size=3D"3" = face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal = Helvetica; ">February 21, 2014 5:30:44 PM AST</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font color=3D"#000000" size=3D"3" face=3D"Helvetica" = style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, = 0, 0); "><b>To:<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font size=3D"3" = face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal = Helvetica; ">Nature BNS <<a = href=3D"mailto:nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a>></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font color=3D"#000000" size=3D"3"= face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal = Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Subject:<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></b></font><font size=3D"3" = face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 12px/normal = Helvetica; "><b>[ValleyNature] local eagles, robins, cedar waxwings, = King's County</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 size=3D"5" = face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal 16px/normal = Helvetica; "><b>FEB. 21, 2014<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>- Brenda Thexton and = her son Bob drove around locally during the last two days; yesterday = they saw<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>40+ bald = eagles</b>, and today there were<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>over 30 bald = eagles</b><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>in the = Grand Pre area. It would be interesting to know roughly what the = ratio of adult:immature eagles was, since back on Feb. 2 our annual = count of eagles and other raptors had a ratio of 60 adults; 40 = immatures. This month we guess that a proportion of the = overwintering adults disperse back toward wherever their nesting = territories are. Of course, many of the wintering adults here are = probably also local nesters (we guess there must be perhaps at least 25 = local nests and quite possibly many more than that -- another reason to = be interested in the results of the 2nd Maritimes Breeding Bird = Atlas.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 19px; font: normal = normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top:= 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = size=3D"5" face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 16px/normal Helvetica; ">Brenda & Bob also report that, 3 days ago, = there were about<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>35+ = robins</b><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>in = easternmost Wolfville. This is probably part of the same = assemblage seen in western and eastern Wolfville on Feb. 12 by myself = and Jake MacDonald, respectively.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = size=3D"5" face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 16px/normal Helvetica; "><br></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = size=3D"5" face=3D"Helvetica" style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 16px/normal 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></blockquote><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"></blockquote></div><br></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-1--413704306--
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