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style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Helene Van Doninck &a --Apple-Mail-C47A6A17-1D27-4A6A-B3F0-BA25AD3B1489 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all=20 Jim's note below has a reply from Helene from Cobequid rehab. In it is a lin= k in her signature where one can make a donation by PayPal or a reference to= where you can mail a cheque. It only took a couple minutes for me to do thi= s this morning and with all the wildlife needing help and the depletion of C= obequid rehab food budget maybe others could consider a donation as well. Th= anks for the forward reminder from Helene Jim. She does wonderful work for N= S wildlife. Our group members have a nice opportunity to lend a hand.=20 Cheers Ken Ken McKenna Box 218 =20 Stellarton NS B0K 1S0 > On Apr 12, 2015, at 1:09 AM, Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> wrote: >=20 >=20 >> Subject: [ValleyNature] re distressed birds this spring -- was more woo= dcocks but not good news >> Date: April 12, 2015 at 1:08:16 AM ADT >> To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> >> Cc: Helene Van Doninck <helene.birdvet@gmail.com> >>=20 >> THANKS, HELENE! [Director of Cobequid Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre near= Truro]. I will also post this to naturens. Jim in Wolfville. >>=20 >> Begin forwarded message: >>=20 >>> From: Helene Van Doninck <helene.birdvet@gmail.com> >>> Subject: Re: re distressed birds this spring -- was more woodcocks but n= ot good news >>> Date: April 11, 2015 at 11:32:20 PM ADT >>> To: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> >>>=20 >>> We've been seeing all sorts of starving birds all winter, and lately rob= ins and woodcock. I know you mention the robins you've seen look fat, but wi= thout actually touching them there's no way to determine their condition...o= nly palpation of the breast muscle can do that. I doubt there's a pile of f= at robins in NS right now. >>> Have lately had multiple cases where people are traveling to us with woo= dcock, robins, and lately Saw Whets...which are thin and weak enough that t= hey've died on the way. >>> We have a pile of owls here that are holding till the weather breaks for= release. Not much sense in feeding them all winter only to let them go in a= food scarcity situation. Bare grass can't come soon enough for me. Our food= budget for 2014/2015 was surpassed long ago! >>> Helene >>>=20 >>> Helene Van Doninck DVM >>> Cobequid Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre >>> Hilden Nova Scotia >>> www.cwrc.net >>> helene.birdvet@gmail.com >>> 902-893-0253 >>>=20 >>>> On Apr 11, 2015 9:31 PM, "Jim Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> wrote: >>>> Pat and I have been wondering about how well our various spring birds a= re making out, especially here in The Valley compared with other areas of th= e province. Nearly all of the robins we have seen looked fat and very healt= hy, but we heard on Thursday that Michael Laceby of The Blomidon Inn in Wolf= ville found two dead robins that morning (he said that superficially they lo= oked big and normal to him). I have been especially worried about the early= woodcocks, which have been so incredibly abundantly reported by everyone th= is year of the very late spring. Two days ago we heard by way of a Sierra C= lub message that Hope Swinimer had quite a few woodcocks at Hope For Wildlif= e in Seaforth that were in need of care. Very few of the reported sightings= to us on naturens have been of birds in distress, but both Andrew Hebda and= Hope Swinimer reported oodles of calls about distressed or dying birds of v= arious kinds, including especially robins. Maybe we can find out from Helen= e Van Doninck in Truro about how she is faring in the wildlife rehab=E2=80=99= business, compared with Hope For Wildlife. >>>>=20 >>>> Cheers? fromj Jim in Wolfville. >>>>=20 >>>> Begin forwarded message: >>>>=20 >>>>> From: James Hirtle <jrhbirder@hotmail.com> >>>>> Subject: [NatureNS] More woodcocks but not good news >>>>> Date: April 10, 2015 at 6:33:07 PM ADT >>>>> To: Naturens Naturens <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> >>>>> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca >>>>>=20 >>>>> I had a report of another American woodcock that some children had sho= t with a pellet gun in Broad Cove. Also, a call from a lady that another is= not in good shape and needs assistance. Not the lady, but the woodcock. >>>>> =20 >>>>> James R. Hirtle >>>>> LaHave=20 >>=20 >> _______________________________________________ >> Nature mailing list >> Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca >> http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnaturalists= .ca >=20 --Apple-Mail-C47A6A17-1D27-4A6A-B3F0-BA25AD3B1489 Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"content-type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3D= utf-8"></head><body dir=3D"auto"><div>Hi all </div><div>Jim's note belo= w has a reply from Helene from Cobequid rehab. In it is a link in her signat= ure where one can make a donation by PayPal or a reference to where you can m= ail a cheque. It only took a couple minutes for me to do this this morning a= nd with all the wildlife needing help and the depletion of Cobequid rehab fo= od budget maybe others could consider a donation as well. Thanks for the for= ward reminder from Helene Jim. She does wonderful work for NS wildlife= . Our group members have a nice opportunity to lend a hand. </div><div>= Cheers</div><div>Ken</div><div><br>Ken McKenna<div>Box 218 </div><div>= Stellarton</div><div>NS B0K 1S0</div><div><br></div></div><div><br>On Apr 12= , 2015, at 1:09 AM, Jim Wolford <<a href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca= ">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type=3D"cit= e"><div><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html charset=3Dwin= dows-1252"><br><div><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px;= margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style=3D"fo= nt-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><sp= an style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>[ValleyNature] re distressed birds t= his spring -- was more woodcocks but not good news</b><br></span><