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Sept. 28, 2006 - I checked out the Windsor sewage ponds this evening, about
an hour after high tide and with failing light (dusk). I saw about 35+
BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, a possible HUDSONIAN GODWIT (not seen well enough),
about 10 CANADA GEESE, lots of ducks including several GREEN-WINGED TEAL,
several RING-BILLED GULL, etc.
Only about 20 people or less attended an excellent meeting of the NOVA
SCOTIA BIRD SOCIETY. The presentation was by a team of two very
enthusiastic young conservationists, Cheyenne Dickinson and Chris Wessel, of
the Bluenose Coastal Action Foundation -- see http://www.coastalaction.org
-- on the ROSEATE TERN RECOVERY PROJECT [on islands in Mahome Bay]. I think
you can find information on this on their Web-site.
Cheyenne is the new coordinator of the RTRP project, and Chris is now the
coordinator of efforts on the Atlantic Whitefish. The Roseate Tern field
camp has been on Quaker Island, 2 km. south of Chester, for three summers
now, and they welcome visits and interest in their project. They havenıt
had any successful fledging of tern chicks there yet, but there have been
nestings and problems with weather and mink predation. The team remains
positive and will continue to work on attracting terns as well as monitoring
them on several other islands in Mahone Bay.
Also at the meeting Andy Horn received an award for his long service to
NSBS.
Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204
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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>
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³There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale
returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.² -- Mark
Twain
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"Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."
- Mark Twain
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³Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient
premises² --
-- Samuel Butler
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