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Hi, I went up to Mooseland last night, and did the NSBS's Taylor Head field trip this morning, then looked at the Grand Desert, Lawrenetown and Conrad's Beach areas on the way home. There were plenty of birds to be seen everywhere, and the weather was gorgeous. For me the highlights (in order ) were - Along the Mooseland Rd. around 8am - A juv. Broad-winged Hawk posing in a spruce, being repeatedly mobbed by angry Robins and Warblers. A little farther along, there was an excellent wave of Warblers, mostly Palm, Blackpoll, C.Yellowthroat and Magnolia, + a few others. At the entrance to Taylor Head P.P., the 1st Boreal Chickadees I have seen all summer, and 2 more Broadwings circling over. Taylor Head Beach - a very healthy-looking population of Common Terns, some of whom were aggressively mobbing a Bald Eagle in flight. Tangier River - about 12 Hooded Mergansers. Grand Desert, 3-Fathom Harbor etc. - good selection of Shorebirds. Conrad's Beach - 1 ad. breeding plumage and 1 basic plumage Black-headed Gull Everywhere after around 2pm - the great cloudscapes, with spectacular thunder-heads and dark bases, but no rain except right under them. Richard -- ################# Richard Stern, 317 Middle Dyke Rd., RR#1 Port Williams, NS, Canada B0P 1T0 rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca rbstern@xcountry.tv sternrichard@gmail.com ###################
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