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**Jane LeBlanc had a good
bird day in her yard in St. Martins on Monday. Besides the regulars, she had a golden-crowned
kinglet, male and female northern cardinals, a dark-eyed junco,
and a yellow-rumped warbler.
**Trailing arbutus, a.k.a. mayflower, has been a very popular spring flower that was often gathered and sold in markets in spring, but it has become uncommon in areas near habitation because it has been over-gathered for its flowers.
Nelson Poirier was pleased
to find this plant by the hundreds on a remote woods trail on Monday at a site
not usually visited by people interested in gathering the spring flowers. Nelson
will revisit this destination in the spring to experience the floral display.
This evergreen plant keeps
its thick, leathery leaves green all winter, ready to bloom at the first hints
of spring.
This plant is Nova
Scotia's floral emblem.
Nelson Poirier
Nature Moncton
