[ValleyNature] nature notes - Daphne buds, eagles late?, feeder birds, etc.

[James W. Wolford]

MAR. 28, 2010 - In our back yard at home, on a cold, winter-like day  
at +3 C. with snow on the ground and a cold moderate breeze, I was  
delighted to hear very close to our yard a repeatedly singing n.  
cardinal.  Previous to today, the few songs I had heard were much  
more distant.

At our feeders were 2 n. flickers (m,f), 2 red-breasted nuthatches, 5  
starlings attacking the bird-pie and suet, a red squiirrel (who has a  
burrow system begun by a Norway rat that didn't survive long ago), etc.

We saw a flying flock of 15 robins heading east (to roost) in the  
evening as we ate supper, and another 10 robins were around our house  
a few hours earlier.

MAR. 29, 2010 - Jake MacDonald reports having seen a pileated  
woodpecker in Port Williams near the north end of the river bridge.

MAR. 30, 2010 - Add 2 rock pigeons to the mix of birds at our feeders.

Two adult bald eagles at the Noggins/Greenwich nest, but no eagle  
actually in the nest yet.  I wonder if the female might be a young  
adult who has not nested before and is therefore behind other pairs  
that have been probably incubating eggs for a while now?

In Wolfville I walked to check on Jean Timpa's Daphne bushes that are  
along the dirt extension of Oak Avenue.  Their flower-buds show the  
petal colour of deep pink and clearly will be opening up perhaps very  
soon, with the warmth of the present and coming days.

Cheers from Jim in Wolfville

Jim (James W.) Wolford
91 Wickwire Ave.
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada
B4P 1W3

phone 902-542-9204
e-mail <jimwolford at eastlink.ca>

"In wildness is the preservation of the world" -- Henry David Thoreau
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