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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">"James W. Wolford" <<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 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 27, 2009 5:19:11 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">Nature BNS <<a href="mailto:nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca</a>>, Wolfville Tourist Bureau <<a href="mailto:tourism@town.wolfville.ns.ca">tourism@town.wolfville.ns.ca</a>>, Claire Diggins <<a href="mailto:claire_diggins@hotmail.com">claire_diggins@hotmail.com</a>>, Heather Killen <<a href="mailto:hkillen@annapolisspectator.ca">hkillen@annapolisspectator.ca</a>>, Ross & Linda Hall <<a href="mailto:ross.hall@ns.sympatico.ca">ross.hall@ns.sympatico.ca</a>>, Julie Paquet <<a href="mailto:Julie.Paquet@ec.gc.ca">Julie.Paquet@ec.gc.ca</a>>, Peter Hope <<a href="mailto:peterhope@ns.sympatico.ca">peterhope@ns.sympatico.ca</a>>, "Karen [Dartmouth] Potter" <<a href="mailto:Karen.Potter@EC.GC.CA">Karen.Potter@EC.GC.CA</a>>, Dorothy Poole <<a href="mailto:dpoolex@ns.sympatico.ca">dpoolex@ns.sympatico.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>Cc: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Jim Wolford <<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 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>45 Upper Falmouth Chimney Swifts + summary</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> Thanks, John! from Jim et al.<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">john belbin <<a href="mailto:jbelbin@ns.sympatico.ca">jbelbin@ns.sympatico.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>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 27, 2009 8:09:28 AM 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] 45 Upper Falmouth Swifts</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> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><font size="2" face="Arial">I checked out the farmhouse owned by Cheryl Rutledge at Sangster Bridge again last night 26 May. There was a stiff cold wind, sunset was given as 8:52 pm.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">I arrived at 8:23 and getting out of the car was buzzed by a Humming Bird - I found that Cheryl has 4 feeders in a small area and 8 of the mobile missiles were very busy. The Sora was calling from the pond but fell silent went I set up my scope to look at it.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">8:30 - 10 swifts circling high. Red Wing Blackbirds and Grackles calling, several Bobolinks singing in the nearby fields. One Bobolink posed on the top of a small bush but it was already too dark for good photos. 2 Grackles were clearly gathering food for a nearby nest. Savannah Sparrows.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">8:45 - 20 swifts getting noisy and close.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">8:50 - 2 Swifts enter. A catbird is making a lot of noise nearby</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">8:55 - 34 swifts enter in groups</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">9:00 The last 2 swifts of the original group go in.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">9:04 A group of 7 Swifts who must have been doing the night-club circuit arrive and enter.</font></div><div><font size="2" face="Arial"></font> </div><div><font size="2" face="Arial">John Belbin - Hantsport</font></div></span></blockquote>------------------------</div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">2009 CHIMNEY SWIFTS SUMMARY</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; 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: 12.0px Helvetica">May 9/09 -- 12 -- Wolfville, Robie Tufts Nature Centre -- Jim Wolford, Carol Carpenter, Sean Timpa, Jean Timpa</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 11/09 -- 20 -- Wolfville -- Jim Wolford</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 11/09 -- 75 -- New Glasgow -- Ken McKenna</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 12/09 -- 81 -- Middleton Regional High School -- Claire Diggins</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 13/09 -- 13 -- Wolfville -- Jim Wolford</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 14/09 -- 44 -- Wolfville -- Jim Wolford</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 14/09 -- 170 -- New Glasgow -- Ken McKenna</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 15/09 -- 287 -- New Glasgow -- Ken McKenna</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 15/09 -- 40 -- Upper Falmouth (old farmhouse) -- Cheryl Rutledge</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 15/09 -- 17 -- Bible Hill, N.S. Agric. Coll. -- Linda & Ross Hall</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 16/09 -- 116 -- McGowan Lake, old blacksmith shop chimney -- Peter Hope</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 17/09 -- 48 -- Wolfville -- Jim Wolford</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 19/09 -- 53+ -- Wolfville -- Gisela Westphalen, Jim Wolford</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 19/09 -- 424 -- New Glasgow -- Ken McKenna, Rick Ferguson</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 19/09 -- 20 -- Oxford, free-standing ex-foundry chimney -- Julie Paquet</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 19/09 -- 121 -- Middleton -- Claire Diggins, Helen Rodgers</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 19/09 -- 95 -- old farmhouse chimney with 6 flues, Upper Falmouth, north of Sangster Bridge -- Cheryl Rutledge & John Belbin</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 19/09 -- 20 -- Oxford (free-standing ex-foundry big chimney) -- Julie Paquet</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 20/09 -- 207 -- New Glasgow -- Ken McKenna</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 20/09 -- 45+ -- Wolfville -- Elizabeth Doull & Ann Doull</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 21/09 -- 24 -- Wolfville -- Jim Wolford et al.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 22/09 -- 20 -- Wolfville -- Jim Wolford</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 23/09 -- 24 -- Wolfville -- ???</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 24/09 -- 61 -- Wolfville -- Jacquie Roche, Chris Toplack, Jim Wolford</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 24/09 -- 314 -- New Glasgow -- Ken McKenna</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 26/09 -- 282 -- Middleton -- Claire Diggins, Helen Rodgers</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 26/09 -- 90 -- Wolfville -- Judy Tufts, Jim Wolford, et al.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">May 26/09 -- 45 -- Upper Falmouth -- John Belbin</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">--------------------------------</font></div></div><br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>