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Fred Schueler
Apr 14, 2025, 9:39:24 PM4/14/25
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14 April 2025 - Canada: Ontario: Grenville County: Oxford-on-Rideau:
Bishops Mills:4 & 6 St Lawrence St. (Schuelers). (100m ard homesite),
31B/13, 44.87156° N 75.70095° W TIME: 2007-2012. AIR TEMP: 10°C,
overcast, calm. HABITAT: rural village, shallow soil limestone plain.
OBSERVER: Frederick W. Schueler. 2025/069/ba, Turdus migratorius (Robin)
lots of calling & some singing, fading through interval. NO:Anura
calling audible.
Branta canadensis (Canada Goose) clamour from E & elsewhere.
Scolopax minor (Woodcock) fightsong twittering E of County Road 18 & W
of houses, no peenting.
Gallinago gallinago (Snipe) 1 bout of flightsong winnowing.
Grus canadensis (Sandhill Crane) 1 bout of honking calls.
* in Bishops Mills we see or hear Sandhill Cranes about once per year,
but this is the first time I've heard them in the dark. I checked the
Cornell website to be sure of my identification. The Snipe was also the
first I've heard this year.
fred.
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Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad
Fragile Inheritance Natural History - https://fragileinheritance.ca/
2024 annual letter: https://clt1233162.bmeurl.co/11E63979
6 St-Lawrence Street Bishops Mills, RR#2 Oxford Station, Ontario K0G 1T0
on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44.87156° N 75.70095° W
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Bishops Mills:4 & 6 St Lawrence St. (Schuelers). (100m ard homesite),
31B/13, 44.87156° N 75.70095° W TIME: 2007-2012. AIR TEMP: 10°C,
overcast, calm. HABITAT: rural village, shallow soil limestone plain.
OBSERVER: Frederick W. Schueler. 2025/069/ba, Turdus migratorius (Robin)
lots of calling & some singing, fading through interval. NO:Anura
calling audible.
Branta canadensis (Canada Goose) clamour from E & elsewhere.
Scolopax minor (Woodcock) fightsong twittering E of County Road 18 & W
of houses, no peenting.
Gallinago gallinago (Snipe) 1 bout of flightsong winnowing.
Grus canadensis (Sandhill Crane) 1 bout of honking calls.
* in Bishops Mills we see or hear Sandhill Cranes about once per year,
but this is the first time I've heard them in the dark. I checked the
Cornell website to be sure of my identification. The Snipe was also the
first I've heard this year.
fred.
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Frederick W. Schueler & Aleta Karstad
Fragile Inheritance Natural History - https://fragileinheritance.ca/
2024 annual letter: https://clt1233162.bmeurl.co/11E63979
6 St-Lawrence Street Bishops Mills, RR#2 Oxford Station, Ontario K0G 1T0
on the Smiths Falls Limestone Plain 44.87156° N 75.70095° W
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