Welcome
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Here I will report on Monarch Butterflies, Astronomical events, and ideas that I have about nature.
Common Milkweed in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia
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Milkweed is the larval food of the Monarch butterfly which is endangered in Nova Scotia. It is of valuable to know where patches of it are located to inspect during the breeding season for larva and eggs. These early stages of the Monarch can then be protected from predators and reared to increase...
Blomidon Naturalists Society 50th Year History
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The images below are copies of the presentation describing my view of the 50 years with the Blomidon Natualists Society. This is a slide show galler. Click on the first image to start the sequence.
Canard River, Tidal Floods, and Acadian Dykes
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A view of the Canard River before all the dykes were built .
Total Solar Eclipse, 8 April 2024
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Location
The path of totality for the April 2024 Solar Eclipse crossed New Brunswick, Canada, from the St. John River Valley to the Northumberland Straits. The width of the path was 171 km. I had selected the small village of Stanley, N.B. as the sight for observing the eclipse. I set up in a nice...
Seven Falls Climb in Melvern Square
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As with my Currie Brook Adventure, I discovered this unique place when going after a geocache. This time it was only one outing and it required only one short hike. The unique quality in this site is the long continuous series of cascading water coming down from the top of the North Mountain. ...
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...