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Index of Subjects ------=_Part_111760_11976211.1155244229414 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi Hans Do you ever take people along? I am relatively new to the area( 3 years in Sambro Head; too many in Ottawa) but recently retired and looking to learn. I keep looking at the water and just see gulls. Wold love to do a tour if you have one. I am a morning person. Beverley Clarkson3@gmail.com On 8/10/06, Hans Toom <Htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca> wrote: > > I walked Martinique Beach this morning unfortunately hitting high tide > right upon the nose. There were *thousands* of shorebirds, mostly > Semipalmated Plovers and Least Sandpipers with a few Semipalmated > Sandpipers, Sanderlings and Whimbrels mixed in. It would take some patience > and a fine scope to sort through this melee for rarities. The Least > Sandpipers are at the eastern end of the beach as per usual in the kelp > heaps at the high tide line. The Piping Plovers would appear to be all > gone. I've posted 6 photos of this event. > > Yesterday evening at about 9:30 PM I snapped a photo of the full moon as > it cleared the power lines over Portuguese Cove. Also yesterday on a > saunter to Pennant Point, HRM, I happened upon 30 Whimbrels. This flighty > bird was all the more so thanks to a large marauding female Northern > Harrier. Sundew was working the trail side, one photo. > > Earlier in the week Laurel Sphinx visited our Portuguese Cove honeysuckle > vine again. Some of these guys were hummingbird sized but I only have three > photos of smaller ones to show. > > To finish off the set there are three dragonfly photos. > > Hans > > http://www.hanstoom.com/Highlights/Highlight89.html > __________________________________________________ > Hans Toom > Provincial Coordinator > Nova Scotia's Migration Count > e-mail: htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca > NSMC website: http://hanstoom.com/NAMC/Index.html > Nature website: http://hanstoom.com > ___________________________________________________ > ------=_Part_111760_11976211.1155244229414 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline <div>Hi Hans</div> <div> </div> <div>Do you ever take people along? I am relatively new to the area( 3 years in Sambro Head; too many in Ottawa) but recently retired and looking to learn. I keep looking at the water and just see gulls.</div> <div> </div> <div>Wold love to do a tour if you have one. I am a morning person.</div> <div> </div> <div>Beverley</div> <div> </div> <div>Clarkson3@gmail.com<br><br> </div> <div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Hans Toom</b> <Htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid"> <div> <div bgcolor="#ffffff"> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">I walked Martinique Beach this morning unfortunately hitting high tide right upon the nose. There were <strong>thousands</strong> of shorebirds, mostly Semipalmated Plovers and Least Sandpipers with a few Semipalmated Sandpipers, Sanderlings and Whimbrels mixed in. It would take some patience and a fine scope to sort through this melee for rarities. The Least Sandpipers are at the eastern end of the beach as per usual in the kelp heaps at the high tide line. The Piping Plovers would appear to be all gone. I've posted 6 photos of this event. </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Yesterday evening at about 9:30 PM I snapped a photo of the full moon as it cleared the power lines over Portuguese Cove. Also yesterday on a saunter to Pennant Point, HRM, I happened upon 30 Whimbrels. This flighty bird was all the more so thanks to a large marauding female Northern Harrier. Sundew was working the trail side, one photo. </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Earlier in the week Laurel Sphinx visited our Portuguese Cove honeysuckle vine again. Some of these guys were hummingbird sized but I only have three photos of smaller ones to show. </font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">To finish off the set there are three dragonfly photos. </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hans</font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font> </div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">http://www.hanstoom.com/Highlights/Highlight89.html </font></div> <div><font face="Arial" size="2">__________________________________________________<br>Hans Toom<br>Provincial Coordinator<br>Nova Scotia's Migration Count<br>e-mail: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca" target="_blank"> htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca</a><br>NSMC website: http://hanstoom.com/NAMC/Index.html<br>Nature website: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://hanstoom.com/" target="_blank"> http://hanstoom.com</a><br>___________________________________________________</font></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br> ------=_Part_111760_11976211.1155244229414--
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