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Index of Subjects Wow! Nicely expressed Marg...very positive...your words were encouraging ...especially since it once again looks like Christmas here this morning. Andy Andy Dean 86 Baden Powell Drive. Kentville. N.S. B4N 5P5 Tel 902-678-6243 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marg Millard" <mmillard@eastlink.ca> To: "naturens" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2016 5:11 PM Subject: [NatureNS] White Point, Queens > Spring is here no matter how much snow we get from now on. Grackle numbers > seem to be holding at roughly 25, there are three red-winged blackbirds, > one holding court in the swamp, the others travelling with the grackles. > There are starlings, 5 brown headed cowbirds, males, Chickadees, Sparrows, > song White Throats and a few I am uncertain as the the variety. The Juncos > are moving trough, there are goldfinches and a couple purple finches, > males and females. The female Robins started to arrive yesterday. There > are the Downy and Hairy woodpeckers. I can hear a Flicker from time to > time. There is a mockingbird behind the barn attending a feeder behind us > somewhere. So far I haven't seen a Heron but am being told they are coming > back. There is a Woodcock in behind the big barn at the golf course > corner. The wonderful news is the barn is being repaired. I expect there > will be places for the barn swallows should any return. > We have peepers and the wood frogs were sounding off this afternoon. I can > smell the perfume of the catkins from the alders wafting on the wind. > Rhubarb is up, Garlic is up and Haskaps are leafing out. Snowdrops are > forming pods now and the early croci are about spent. That heavy rain > flattened them. > I was checking for Mayflowers this afternoon in our yard; there are buds > but they are raising but are still tight. > > I think the rain has rotted out the tree peonies but they have surprised > me before, maybe they will come along. The climbing hydrangea is budding > quickly and I see daylilies, cranesbill and poppies are getting well > along. Cranesbill has buds! > best regards, Marg > > > Marg Millard > 19 White Point 2 Rd., White Point, Queens Co., > R.R. # 1 Hunts Point, > Nova Scotia , Canada > (902) 683-2393 MargMillard.ca > Facebook: White Point Artist, Marg Millard. >
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