[NatureNS] Coltsfoot in Bloom

From: David Hughes <dghughes@bellaliant.net>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2020 10:23:39 -0300
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We have pussywillows in modest numbers in Lower Sackville, but I haven’t seen coltsfoot yert.

David

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> On Mar 23, 2020, at 12:37 AM, "plchalmers@ns.sympatico.ca" <plchalmers@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> Carl Munden hasn't posted here for a while, but he always used to delight in being the first to find and report our first wildflower in bloom, in late March.  So I feel a bit as though I am usurping his place when I report that this afternoon I saw a patch of Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara) in full bloom - the first wildflower of spring.  It was growing in a gravelly, south-facing patch of ground along the Causeway Road in Three Fathom Harbour.
>  
> There were also pussywillows out, and I heard and saw a couple of Common Grackles, one of our earliest migrants.
>  
> Cheers,
>  
> Patricia L. Chalmers
> Halifax

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