[NatureNS] Martinique Beach PP this morning and other recent events

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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
> ___________________________________________________
>

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<div>Hi Hans</div>
<div>&nbsp;</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&nbsp;just see gulls.</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>Wold love to do a tour if you have one. I am a morning person.</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>Beverley</div>
<div>&nbsp;</div>
<div>Clarkson3@gmail.com<br><br>&nbsp;</div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/10/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Hans Toom</b> &lt;Htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca&gt; wrote:</span>
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<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.&nbsp; It would take some patience and a fine scope to sort through this melee for rarities.&nbsp; The Least Sandpipers are at the eastern end of the beach as per usual in the kelp heaps at the high tide line.&nbsp; The Piping Plovers would appear to be all gone.&nbsp; I've posted 6 photos of this event.
</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font>&nbsp;</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.&nbsp;&nbsp;Also yesterday on a saunter to Pennant Point, HRM, I happened upon 30 Whimbrels.&nbsp; This flighty bird was all the more so thanks to a large marauding female Northern Harrier.&nbsp;&nbsp;Sundew was working the trail side, one photo.
</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font>&nbsp;</div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Earlier in the week Laurel Sphinx visited our Portuguese Cove honeysuckle vine again.&nbsp; Some of these guys were hummingbird sized but I only have three photos of smaller ones to show.&nbsp; </font>
</div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font>&nbsp;</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>&nbsp;</div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Hans</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial" size="2"></font>&nbsp;</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>

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