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<html><div style='background-color:'><P>Hello all, </P> <P> After a fruitless attempt Saturday a.m. to find the Sandhill Crane reported from Windsor Forks a few days ago, I drove across the lower (east) part of the Grand Pré, hoping to find a few shorebirds, since it was about high tide by then (13:30). No luck with them, and not much else except a few hundred gulls, almost all Herring, scattered across the mostly bare-ground corn fields. I did get a good look at an American Pipit, but the wind was high enough that it was mainly car birding. The highlight was an adult <STRONG>Lesser Black-backed Gull </STRONG>standing with about 100 Herring Gulls near the Long Island end of that road across the meadows (approaching Marshland Farm). Its mantle colour was intermediate between those of our <EM>L. argentatus</EM> and <EM>L. marinus</EM>, so I suppose that it was <EM>Larus fuscus graellsi</EM> .. The legs were yellow, but it was noticeably smaller than the Herring Gulls and the head was quite streaked, so I could not make it into a Yellow-legged Gull, like that claimed by our Newfoundland neighbours Friday. Since there are now several records of that species from Newfoundland, one from Quebec, and a few from the eastern U.S., we should be watching for it. Perhaps it has occurrred in N.S. when i was away and I have not heard of it?</P> <P> At Evangeline Beach, the tide was beginning to go out, and there was a flock of 30 Semipalmated Plovers still there, but nothing else. <BR><BR>Cheers,<BR></P> <DIV>Wayne Neily <BR>Tremont, Nova Scotia <BR><BR><BR>"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, <BR>There is a rapture on the lonely shore, <BR>There is society where none intrudes, <BR>By the deep sea, and music in its roar: <BR>I love not man the less, but Nature more." - George Gordon, Lord Byron, 1812. <BR><BR><BR></DIV></div><br clear=all><hr>Say hello to the next generation of Search. Live Search – try it now. </html>
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