[NatureNS] Three Big Birds

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Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 06:19:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Paul MacDonald <paulrita2001@yahoo.com>
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Hi Angus
Thanks for the suggestion.
i hadn't checked any reference books before posting
the note so as not to influence what I wrote but when
I read about them Sandhills fit the bill. Especially
the unusual wing beat which I noted but didn't well
describe.
Have a nice fall
Paul

--- Angus MacLean <angusmcl@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Sounds like Sandhill Cranes.
> Angus
> 
> At 11:50 PM 10/19/2006, Paul wrote:
> >Hi All
> >Just at sundown this evening while I was on Belle
> Isle
> >Marsh, I observed three large birds flying from
> north
> >to south along the Fundy shore.
> >I only saw with my own optics so details are vague.
> >The three were flying in line, looked like slow
> wing
> >beats but moving fast. Big birds with long necks -
> >bigger than geese - light in colour - not dark like
> >cormorants. looked bigger than gannets with a
> >different outline.
> >Prehaps they will turn up at Brier.
> >Have a nice fall
> >Paul
> >
> >
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