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Index of Subjects <html><div style='background-color:'><P>Hello Hans et al., </P> <P> Enjoyed your photos, as usual. getting exposed to all these good shots of immature birds, odd plants, and invertebrates helps us all sharpen our identification skills. </P> <P> Your possible Cape May juvenile, looks to me like a Ruby-crowned Kinglet; the others all look good; the imm. Chestnut-sided this time is a typical one, but the Aug. 17 picture labeled as such looks more like a young Least Flycatcher. It is interesting how different the Magnolias look and how much more difficult they are to identify when you cannot see the whole bird. Were they all of the same one? And the Purple Finch really has a purple bill! The mystery plant is a<EM> Polygonum</EM>, perhaps <EM>punctatum</EM>, but I'll leave the species to the botanists - there are about 26 in N. S. according to Zinck.<BR><BR>Keep them coming!</P> <DIV>Wayne Neily <BR>Tremont, Nova Scotia <BR><BR><BR>"Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we." - Michel de Montaigne, 1580. <BR><BR><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11px; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma,sans-serif"> <HR color=#a0c6e5 SIZE=1> From: <I>Hans Toom <Htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca></I><BR>Reply-To: <I>naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</I><BR>To: <I>"Naturens@Chebucto.Ns.Ca" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca></I><BR>Subject: <I>[NatureNS] Fall Warblers and Other Good Stuff</I><BR>Date: <I>Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:54:51 -0300</I><BR><BR> <META content="Microsoft SafeHTML" name=Generator> <STYLE> </STYLE> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #a0c6e5 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A couple of years ago I met a chap on the trail at Rondeau PP, ON, in May while we were both enjoying the spectacle of spring warblers, mostly very easy to identify by sight or sound. The conversation eventually turned to my home and he then queried the best time for birding in Nova Scotia to which I replied Sept to Nov. I watched his jaw drop in disappointment as he uttered, "fall warblers!!!". This phrase is well used and valid as fall warblers can be very difficult to sort out even with photographs on hand. Freshly fledged fall warblers are even harder to ID and its all made just that much more difficult because the clues usually afforded by local habitat and local breeders becomes irrelevant. I've posted a bunch of photos of fall warblers that moved through Portuguese Cove this afternoon, all juveniles.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A case to demonstrate my point is the first photograph. Is this a Cape May Warbler, or something else? I can't decide. The sharp black bill, greenish rump, greenish edges to flight feathers and pale edged greater coverts all favours the Cape May Warbler, but?? If you check the internet photo library you'll notice that almost all examples are of the easy to ID adult Cape May Warbler not my subject juvenile. I have other photos of recently fledged birds that are so confusing that they are likely not identifiable.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The last photo in this series of birds and plants is a plant that we cannot identify. Its common enough and favours marsh edges.</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/Highlights12.html</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>__________________________________________________<BR>Hans Toom<BR>Provincial Coordinator<BR>Nova Scotia's Migration Count<BR>e-mail: htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca
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