Curry Brook - Up and Down - Down and Up for Geocaches
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This is a description of my adventure in the Autumn of 2020 to explore a gorge on the north edge of the Southern Uplands of Kings County, Nova Scotia. A geocacher with the interesting moniker of Junior Woodchuck Huey, had hidden nine caches along the stream, called Curry Brook. In two separate...
eButterfly and Mission Monarch
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eButterfly is a website to post observations of butterflies. It was used during the Maritime Butterfly Atlas to collect observations from field observers. Now eButterfly is partnering with several other butterfly conservation groups to create a site called Mission Monarch to report...
Destruction of a Pine Forest - Cambridge, N.S.
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Over the winter 2018-19, one of the few remaining pine forests on the Annapolis Valley floor was clear cut of every tree standing. The image below shows how there is no forest left at all (click on the photo for a larger image).
The area is shown in the aerial photo from Google Earth below before...
Video on Monarch Habitat -" A Field for Monarch" by Jerry Lockett
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Video of a Monarch Habitat
Surveying for Old Forest - Chain Lake Kings County
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Situation
The Kings County area of Nova Scotia is forested in its southern section but very little of it is has been set aside for wildlife habitat as a wilderness area. The Blomidon Naturalists Society learned from preliminary surveys in that area that there are species of concern whose habitat...
2024 Monarch Report
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2024 Monarch Butterfly Population Report - Brooklyn Street Field
Published on Oct 16, 2024
2024 was an average year for the Monarch population coming from out field milkweed. It was better that 2023, but not as good as the great years of 2021 and 22. We saw varying numbers in our 2 hectare field...
2023 Monarch Report
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2023 Report of Monarch Butterflies - Nova Scotia
Published on Sep 17, 2023
The year 2023 had a slow start for Monarchs in Nova Scotia, probably due to the cool weather of the late spring and early summer. Very few Monarch had made it to province before mid-July. We saw the first Monarch in our...
2022 Monarch Report
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2022 Monarch Report - Annapolis Valley
Published on Aug 17, 2022
2022 was a very good year for Monarch breeding in the Annapolis Valley. The following information is for just the Common milkweed field (2 ha) in Brooklyn Corner, N.S. Other people in the Annapolis Valley are also seeing good...