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Sept. 24, 2006 - Pat and I checked out Wolfville Harbour two hours before high tide. Just as we were starting to look for shorebirds among the rocks along the railroad tracks, we had a great look at a PEREGRINE FALCON that swooped once at those tracks, then circled and again flew by them at a low altitude and then passed directly over our heads and away. No shorebirds were flushed, which was smart on their parts. We found about 22 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, 2 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, one DOWITCHER, and single LEAST SANDPIPER and SEMIPALMATED PLOVER. When approached closely by us from above (along the tracks), the yellowlegs, dowitcher, and peeps did not flush and fly, but they just waded into the water and swam out a bit as a flock, then made their way west toward the waterfront park and went back onto the shore rocks. Only one greater yellowlegs flew and gave the loud alarm calls of their species. Being quiet and not flushing are great strategies when a hunting peregrine is somewhere nearby. Later we found a single BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER on the rocks at the waterıs edge by the Wolfville sewage ponds. There were a number of sparrows along the shore as we walked, but the only one identfied was a SAVANNAH SPARROW. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204 --------------------- Jim (James W.) Wolford 91 Wickwire Avenue Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada B4P 1W3 phone (902)542-9204 (home) fax (902)585-1059 (Acadia Univ. Biology Dept.) e-mail <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> ---------------------- ³In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.² -- John Muir ----------------------
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