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--Apple-Mail=_B82F7DDB-641E-45AE-9582-9246DF53708A Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 MAY 14/20 =97 Miner=92s Marsh in Kentville:=20 in shallow water a big school of very small fish, presumably banded = killifish;=20 at least 3 painted turtles seen;=20 I heard a whinny call of a SORA rail;=20 lots of red-winged blackbirds (at least one female seen) and c. = grackles;=20 one great blue heron seen;=20 3 Canada geese seen, and 2 of them had a single gosling; only a few mallards seen, including one female with a male. MAY 15/20 =97 At home, beautiful sunny and very warm day =97 oodles of = flower-heads of common dandelion attracted lots of honeybees. =20 QUESTION about common dandelion: Long ago I was told, or read somewhere, = that common dandelion flowering is a sham, in that all the seeds = produced are just clones of the parent plants =97 any truth to this?? = If so, why all the meiosis and flower parts, just for dispersal?? Also today, a single flower of wild strawberry seen, Norway maple in = flower, and shadbush almost in bloom. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville --Apple-Mail=_B82F7DDB-641E-45AE-9582-9246DF53708A 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;"><div = style=3D"margin: 0px;"><b>MAY 14/20 =97 Miner=92s Marsh</b> in = Kentville: </div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: = 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;">in shallow water a big = school of very small fish, presumably <b>banded = killifish</b>; </div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;">at least 3 = <b>painted turtles</b> seen; </div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;">I = heard a whinny call of a <b>SORA rail</b>; </div><div = style=3D"margin: 0px;">lots of red-winged blackbirds (at least one = female seen) and c. grackles; </div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;">one = great blue heron seen; </div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;">3 = <b>Canada geese</b> seen, and 2 of them had a single = <b>gosling</b>;</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;">only a few mallards = seen, including one female with a male.</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; = min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;"><b>MAY = 15/20</b> =97 At home, beautiful sunny and very warm day =97 oodles of = flower-heads of <b>common dandelion</b> attracted lots of = <b>honeybees</b>. </div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: = 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;"><b>QUESTION</b> about = common dandelion: Long ago I was told, or read somewhere, that common = dandelion flowering is a sham, in that all the seeds produced are just = clones of the parent plants =97 any truth to this?? If so, why all = the meiosis and flower parts, just for dispersal??</div><div = style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: = 0px;">Also today, a single flower of <b>wild strawberry</b> seen, = <b>Norway maple</b> in flower, and <b>shadbush</b> almost in = bloom.</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: = 0px;">Cheers from Jim in Wolfville</div><div><br></div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_B82F7DDB-641E-45AE-9582-9246DF53708A--
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