[ValleyNature] Palmeter's Woods walk, + raccoons at feeders

[James W. Wolford]

MAY 16, 2010 - Lovely Sunny day but windy, and Pat & I had a short  
walk this afternoon in Palmeter's Woods in w. Kentville.

Birds seen or heard: e. phoebe singing near the first bridge on the  
path,  I saw both least flycatcher and northern parula warbler  
delivering their songs, several yellow-rumped warblers, black-capped  
chickadee, robins, downy woodpecker.

Flowers: bunchberry, starflower, wild sarsaparilla or Aralia just  
starting, serviceberry or shadbush, pin cherry, apple, flowering  
crab?, wild strawberry, and, on lawns, pussy-toes and thyme-leaved  
speedwell.
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In the evening at dusk we looked out at the feeders just before I  
went out to bring them into our shed for the night, because of  
raccoons.  And guess what?  One raccoon was hanging on and eating  
sunflower seeds from one feeder, and a second raccoon was on the  
ground getting the spills from the upper one!  Actually my raccoons  
have been very polite of late, having learned how to empty the  
sunflower-seed feeders without damaging them.

Cheers from Jim in Wolfville
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