We had a large flock of Bohemian waxwings this afternoon in Chester. About 50 of them descended on remaining small wrinkled crabapples (about the size of peas) and the very plentiful bright red cotoneaster berries on our ground cover cotoneaster. This is the first day they’ve been here since last spring.
I got some help from local folks and found the eagle nest, about 70 metres east of the main Prescott House Museum building, in a pine tree, about 2/3 of the way up the tree. The nest and the sitting adult eagle are difficult to view, but not far from the road. Cheers and thanks again from Jim in Wolfville.
I also found another occupied raven nest northwest from Port Williams, along Hwy. 358 and south from the junction with Dyke View Road.
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> From: Dianne <dianne.thorpe(a)hotmail.com>
> Subject: Eagle Nest
> Date: March 23, 2021 at 7:57:05 AM ADT
> To: "jimwolford(a)eastlink.ca" <jimwolford(a)eastlink.ca>
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> Good morning Jim, I am not sure if you are aware of an eagle nest at the Prescott House property. It is new this year.
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> Also, Gordon and I saw a nest behind the Stirling property in Melanson .......not sure if it is new or that we had not noticed it before. It is along the river bank.
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> Debbie Daigle called me this morning to say she has an albino deer on her property in Starr's Point .....she has had deer there regularly through the fall and winter but this was her first sighting of the albino deer.
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> Always enjoy reading your nature observations . Dianne
>
> Sent from my iPad
MARCH 22, 2021 - Today I found another new bald eagle nest (new to me), just north of the Port Williams School, along Sutton Road. Drive north perhaps half a kilometre and look to the east for a bluff with a prominent pine tree and deciduous forest. The pine has the nest near its top, and an adult eagle was sitting in it, perhaps incubating eggs?
Cheers from Jim in Wolfville
Dear All,
   Spring arrived in Kentville late March 22 morning with Honey Bees
working Snow Drop flowers and fighting over rights to Winter Aconite
pollen; blossoms now wide open.
Dave
We have had many honey bees around our crocuses at the side of the house
for several days now. Hopefully they're coming from the hives we host in
our back field. See this month's picture in the BNS calendar for more about
them.
Richard Stern
sternrichard(a)gmail.com
(Sent from my Android device)
I thought the Snowdrops were going to be squashed after Friday's
snowfall, but as the snow melted on Saturday, there they were again.Â
Sunday afternoon was sunny & warm and the Snowdrops fully opened for the
first time, and they were buzzing with some kind of small bee (honey
bees?). If anyone is interested in IDing these, we have some pics I can
send on.
Lois Codling
L. Sackville
Spring is definitely here.
We had three American Robins visit today along with two Red-winged
Blackbirds.
And yet we also saw three Red Polls also.
Last week we had our first Grackle that visited just briefly and did not
return.
The Song Sparrows are singing here in the Valley.
The Morning Doves are chasing each other.
Larry
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Larry Bogan
Brooklyn Corner, Nova Scotia
larry(a)bogan.ca
MARCH 21/21 - Another car tour of bald eagle nests east of Wolfville:
- Eye Road nest - one adult eagle standing on the nest;
- Miner Lane, west of Grand Pre Park - one adult eagle perched at nest;
- raven nest along Miner Lane by farmhouse had a raven perched above nest;
- North Grand Pre, 387 West Long Island Rd. — adult eagle on nest;
- West Long Island, Leungs’ nest - one adult eagle perched on branch above nest (probably the male from the mated pair that have the new nest just nw. of Leungs’ house?;
- West Long Island, new nest northwest of Leungs’ - one adult eagle on nest;
- Horton Landing nest - one adult eagle on nest;
- Hortonville nest along eastern Old Trunk 1 Rd. — one adutl eagle on nest.
Cheers, Happy Spring, from Jim in Wolfville
