<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; "><b>MAR. 14, 2009</b> - An adult <b>WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW</b> appeared at our feeders in Wolfville. My distant and short view showed the lores to be dark, thus probably subspecies<i> leucophrys</i>?</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; "><b>MAR. 15, 2009</b> - I heard a <b>woodpecker drumming</b> (species unknown) in Wolfville today. We still have a single <b>AM. TREE SPARROW</b> among our feeder-birds, but I didn't see the white-crowned sparrow today.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; ">We saw a single <b>AM. ROBIN</b> at Blomidon on the property of Claudette and Jack Lafferty (prob. an overwintered individual).</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; "><b>MAR. 16, 2009</b> - We still have black-capped <b>CHICKADEE WITH A STRIKINGLY WHITE TAIL</b> at our feeders, and the adult <b>WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW</b> also appeared again today.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; "><b>MAR. 17, 2009</b> - At Wellington Dyke (ne. of Port Williams) at mid-day there were <b>at least 800 CANADA GEESE</b> -- what a great sight and sound, as many were calling, most were on the ground (some close to the road in corn stubble, most in open fields just east of the road), and many small flocks were flying. Two days ago, Brenda & Bill Thexton saw about 400 geese in the same spot.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; ">Today I checked three <b>BALD EAGLE NESTS</b>, and only one of them definitely had an apparent incubating adult in/on the nest: the occupied one was on the south bank of the mouth of the Canard River (se. of Wellington Dyke, on Starr's Point) on the property of Chris Cox's pig farm; the rebuilt nest on the north bank of the Cornwallis River just west of Willowbank Farm (Starr's Point Loop Road) had no attending eagles; and I could not see an adult eagle at the Canard nest (at Muskrat Marsh Farm, east of Jawbone Corner.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; ">Just north of Wellington Dyke, with herring gulls, was a single adult <b>LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL</b>.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; ">Also on March 15/09 Pat & I checked the<b> BALD EAGLE NEST</b> on the cliff edge at Blomidon (well south of the park), and no adult was visible on it; however, the angle and height of the nest leaves open that an adult was there but couldn't be seen. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; ">At Chris Cox's farm at Starr's Point, an adult <b>RAVEN</b> was at the previously-used <b>NEST</b> built just below the top of the metal grain elevator, but I couldn't see any incubating adult in the nest. The <b>RAVEN NEST</b> just north of the Acadia Arena now probably has an incubating adult on it, but there doesn't seem to be any place where I can view the nest clearly.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; ">Port Williams sewage ponds: only 4 ducks, including a male mallard and 3 <b>COMMON GOLDENEYES</b> (2m,1f).</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; ">On the old Acadia gymnasium building, a <b>ROCK PIGEON</b> was in <b>INCUBATING</b> position on a nest.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; min-height: 16px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; "><b>MAR. 18, 2009</b> - <b>WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW</b> still present at our feeders. A <b>SHARP-SHINNED HAWK</b> was soaring in the glorious sunshine a bit north of our home in Wolfville in late morning. Temperatures went to at least +9 C. today. And a male <b>CARDINAL</b> showed up at our feeders at dusk (for the last few days, our pair of cardinals have not been seen). </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Cheers from Jim in Wolfville</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Jim (James W.) Wolford</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">91 Wickwire Ave.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">B4P 1W3</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">phone 902-542-9204</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">e-mail <<a href="mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; ">"In wildness is the preservation of the world" -- Henry David Thoreau</font></div></font></div></div>
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