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--Apple-Mail=_66A8C9DE-C193-4647-838D-4327E2676F04 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Begin forwarded message: > From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Subject: re pine warblers in Pt. Wms., was sewer ponds & other bird = news > Date: January 23, 2016 at 6:35:37 PM AST > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca>, Nancy Nickerson = <nicknl@ns.sympatico.ca> >=20 > THANKS, NANCY! from Jim in Wolfville et al. >=20 > On Jan 23, 2016, at 5:51 PM, Nancy Nickerson <nicknl@ns.sympatico.ca> = wrote: >=20 >> Hi Jim: >> =20 >> Yes, at least one Pine Warbler (f/imm) is still visiting my feeders = occasionally. On Jan 5 there were two, both f/imm, here at the same = time, but since then I=92ve seen only one at a time. Last night the = temperature dropped to -17C here in Port Williams, so I was glad to see = one of the warblers here again late this afternoon, looking healthy and = active. >> =20 >> Nancy =20 >> =20 >> =20 >> From: Jim Wolford [mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca]=20 >> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 2:32 PM >> To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> >> Cc: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>; Alison Bogan = <alison@bogan.ca>; Nancy Nickerson <nicknl@ns.sympatico.ca> >> Subject: Pt. Wms. sewer ponds & other bird news >> =20 >> JAN. 21, 2016 - At home in east-end Wolfville, feeders at our = apartment building (45 Woodman Rd.) have attracted 2 purple finches = (f/imm), in addition to our 30+ goldfinches and a similar number of = mourning doves. >> =20 >> Sherman Bleakney, at the top of Kent Ave. in Wolfville, had a pine = warbler at his suet two days ago. I wonder if Nancy Nickerson in Port = Williams still has a pine warbler? >> =20 >> In early afternoon today, I tried to go to the Port Williams = sewage/sewer ponds, and I will blame George Forsyth for this, since he = reported at the BNS meeting Monday evening that 3? n. shovelers had been = seen there up to very recently? This was quite an adventure today, = because the road/track to the ponds was a white-out condition; thus I = parked behind the doctors=92 office building and then walked. This was = great exercise, which I needed, and the last 50 metres was very = difficult, resulting in a couple of falls and some curses. The road is = passable only for a tractor or large high-centered truck. >> =20 >> When I got to the ponds, predictably about 20+ goldeneyes = (unidentified) all took off from their small spot of open water, leaving = only the usual dense mass ofdabbling ducks in the larger pond of open = water plus a single gull, which was an adult Iceland gull. About half = of the surface-feeding ducks flew off, but the remaining 30 ducks = included about 27 mallards, 1 black duck, and a singleAmerican? wigeon = (f/imm) and a single f/imm gadwall. (I did have my trusty old spotting = scope.) >> =20 >> Now, for the sake of those of us (just me?) who don=92t check eBird, = maybe George will send us all some info=92 about when and how many = shovelers were seen there or elsewhere locally? >> =20 >> For a final note, Alison Bogan now is submitting the final results of = the Wolfville Christmas Bird Count, which was held on Dec. 19, 2015. So = we should be able soon to access those results via Dave Currie and the = N.S. Bird Society Web site. >> =20 >> Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. >=20 --Apple-Mail=_66A8C9DE-C193-4647-838D-4327E2676F04 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html = charset=3Dwindows-1252"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space;"><br><div style=3D""><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;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Jim Wolford <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>><br><= /span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>re pine warblers = in Pt. Wms., was sewer ponds & other bird = news</b><br></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">January 23, 2016 at = 6:35:37 PM AST<br></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Nature BNS <<a = href=3D"mailto:nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a>>, Nancy Nickerson <<a = href=3D"mailto:nicknl@ns.sympatico.ca">nicknl@ns.sympatico.ca</a>><br><= /span></div><br><div><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" = content=3D"text/html charset=3Dwindows-1252"><div style=3D"word-wrap: = break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space;">THANKS, NANCY! from Jim in Wolfville et = al.<div><br><div><div>On Jan 23, 2016, at 5:51 PM, Nancy Nickerson = <<a = href=3D"mailto:nicknl@ns.sympatico.ca">nicknl@ns.sympatico.ca</a>> = wrote:</div><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div lang=3D"EN-US" link=3D"#0563C1" vlink=3D"#954F72" = style=3D"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; = font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; = line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; = text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div class=3D"WordSection1" = style=3D"page: WordSection1;"><div style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; = font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span = style=3D"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: = rgb(31, 73, 125);">Hi Jim:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style=3D"margin: = 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif;"><span style=3D"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, = sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div = style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times = New Roman', serif;"><span style=3D"font-size: 11pt; font-family: = Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Yes, at least one Pine = Warbler (f/imm) is still visiting my feeders occasionally. On Jan 5 = there were two, both f/imm, here at the same time, but since then = I=92ve seen only one at a time. Last night the temperature dropped to = -17C here in Port Williams, so I was glad to see one of the warblers = here again late this afternoon, looking healthy and = active.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; = font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span = style=3D"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: = rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div style=3D"margin: 0in 0in = 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span = style=3D"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: = rgb(31, 73, 125);">Nancy <o:p></o:p></span></div><div = style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times = New Roman', serif;"><span style=3D"font-size: 11pt; font-family: = Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></div><div = style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times = New Roman', serif;"><b><span style=3D"font-size: 11pt; font-family: = Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, = 125);"> </span></b></div><div><div style=3D"border-style: solid = none none; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); border-top-width: 1pt; = padding: 3pt 0in 0in;"><div style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; = font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><span = style=3D"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, = sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span style=3D"font-size: 11pt; = font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>Jim Wolford [<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>]<= span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Sent:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>Thursday, January 21, 2016 = 2:32 PM<br><b>To:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>Nature BNS <<a = href=3D"mailto:nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a>><br><b>Cc:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>Jim Wolford <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>>; = Alison Bogan <<a = href=3D"mailto:alison@bogan.ca">alison@bogan.ca</a>>; Nancy Nickerson = <<a = href=3D"mailto:nicknl@ns.sympatico.ca">nicknl@ns.sympatico.ca</a>><br><= b>Subject:</b><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>Pt. = Wms. sewer ponds & other bird = news<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style=3D"margin: 0in 0in = 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div style=3D"margin: 0in 0in = 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif;"><b>JAN. 21, 2016</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>- At home in east-end = Wolfville, feeders at our apartment building (45 Woodman Rd.) have = attracted 2<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>purple = finches</b><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>(f/imm), = in addition to our 30+ goldfinches and a similar number of mourning = doves.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin: 0in 0in = 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin: 0in 0in = 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif;">Sherman Bleakney, at the top of Kent Ave. in Wolfville, had = a<b><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>pine warbler<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>at his suet two days = ago. I wonder if Nancy Nickerson in Port Williams still has a pine = warbler?<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin: 0in 0in = 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin: 0in 0in = 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">In = early afternoon today, I tried to go to the<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Port Williams = sewage/sewer ponds</b>, and I will blame George Forsyth for this, since = he reported at the BNS meeting Monday evening that 3?<b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>n. shovelers</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>had been seen there up to = very recently? This was quite an adventure today, because the = road/track to the ponds was a white-out condition; thus I parked behind = the doctors=92 office building and then walked. This was great = exercise, which I needed, and the last 50 metres was very difficult, = resulting in a couple of falls and some curses. The road is = passable only for a tractor or large high-centered = truck.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin: 0in 0in = 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin: 0in 0in = 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">When = I got to the ponds, predictably about<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>20+ goldeneyes</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>(unidentified) all took off = from their small spot of open water, leaving only the usual dense mass = of<b>dabbling ducks</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>in the larger pond of open = water plus a single gull, which was an adult<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>Iceland gull</b>. = About half of the surface-feeding ducks flew off, but the remaining 30 = ducks included about 27<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>mallards,</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>1<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>black duck</b>, and a = single<b>American? wigeon</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>(f/imm) and a single = f/imm<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>gadwall</b>. = (I did have my trusty old spotting = scope.)<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin: 0in 0in = 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin: 0in 0in = 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now, = for the sake of those of us (just me?) who don=92t check eBird, maybe = George will send us all some info=92 about when and how many shovelers = were seen there or elsewhere locally?<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div = style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times = New Roman', serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div = style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times = New Roman', serif;">For a final note, Alison Bogan now is submitting the = final<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>results of = the Wolfville Christmas Bird Count</b>, which was held on Dec. 19, = 2015. So we should be able soon to access those results via Dave = Currie and the N.S. Bird Society Web = site.<o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; = font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin: 0in 0in = 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif;">Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville.</div></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></div= ></blockquote></div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_66A8C9DE-C193-4647-838D-4327E2676F04--
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