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<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Richard Stern <<a href="mailto:sternrichard@gmail.com">sternrichard@gmail.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 3, 2009 7:01:01 PM ADT</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">NatureNS <<a href="mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[NatureNS] Local birds today</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> Hi,<div><br></div><div>I got home yesterday from a course in Halifax, and Liz told me she had heard a pair of Barred Owls calling from some woods close to our house (north of Kentville). So we went over at dusk, and I successfully called in a single, silent Barred Owl, twice. So this morning I went back, this time with Bernard Forsythe, to see if we could find a nest. No luck, although we found a roosting area, with "whitewash" and some pellets, on the ground. But we did find an active Red-tail"s nest, which I will monitor over the next few weeks. Also present were a F. N.Cardinal that flew out of a thick clump of bushes and behaved as if a nest was nearby, + A Black-and-White Warbler, several Yellow-rumps, and several Blue-headed Vireos.</div> <div><br></div><div>At home we now have 2 active Robins nests with eggs. </div><div><br></div><div>Richard<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>#################<br>Richard Stern, <br>317 Middle Dyke Rd.<br>Port Williams, NS, Canada<br> B0P 1T0<br><br><a href="mailto:sternrichard@gmail.com">sternrichard@gmail.com</a><br>###################<br> </div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>