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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_4M1DvtCDnnm8Ud7DtUIJ3w) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable The butterflies are gone, the flowers are finished and birds are harder = to find but the scenery remains,.... becoming even more vivid this time = of year, especially on the Pennant Peninsula and Crystal Crescent Beach = PP. This place is uplifting. Blake Maybank in his superb book, Birding = Sites of Nova Scotia, wisely gave this area the coveted four stars for = both bird life and for scenery. Often I am alone here in the mornings = and can only share the sights through photography and word of mouth. = When I venture even further onto the coastal barrens I hardly ever see = another human soul. This morning I was greeted by the first winter = visitation of Snow Buntings at Crystal Crescent Beach. The thrill of = watching this elegant bird fluttering silently to the ground in a flock = never fails to impress me. High numbers of Yellow-rumped Warblers and = American Robins continue as do bunches of boreal birds such as Downy = Woodpecker, Boreal Chickadee and Golden-crowned Kinglet. There are = American Pipits about as well if you look carefully on the now abundant = storm heaped kelp beds. The Downy Woodpecker is a story in itself. On our house perhaps two = metres from our sleeping heads is a chickadee nest box. With the window = open in the spring its a delight to listen to the young birds being fed. = Well it seems a Downy Woodpecker has decided he fancies this box and is = now in the process of opening the entrance cavity more to his likely. = The effect is predictable albeit amusing. I've posted 14 photos, the first two of Blomidon, eight of the Pennant = Peninsula and the final four are of this morning's Snow Buntings. Hans http://www.hanstoom.com/Highlights/Highlights25.html __________________________________________________ Hans Toom Provincial Coordinator Nova Scotia's Migration Count e-mail: htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca NSMC website: http://hanstoom.com/NAMC/Index.html Nature website: http://hanstoom.com ___________________________________________________= --Boundary_(ID_4M1DvtCDnnm8Ud7DtUIJ3w) Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2963" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The butterflies are gone, the flowers are finished and birds are harder to find but the scenery remains,.... becoming even more vivid this time of year, especially on the Pennant Peninsula and Crystal Crescent Beach PP. This place is uplifting. Blake Maybank in his superb book, Birding Sites of Nova Scotia, wisely gave this area the coveted four stars for both bird life and for scenery. Often I am alone here in the mornings and can only share the sights through photography and word of mouth. When I venture even further onto the coastal barrens I hardly ever see another human soul. This morning I was greeted by the first winter visitation of Snow Buntings at Crystal Crescent Beach. The thrill of watching this elegant bird fluttering silently to the ground in a flock never fails to impress me. High numbers of Yellow-rumped Warblers and American Robins continue as do bunches of boreal birds such as Downy Woodpecker, Boreal Chickadee and Golden-crowned Kinglet. There are American Pipits about as well if you look carefully on the now abundant storm heaped kelp beds.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Downy Woodpecker is a story in itself. On our house perhaps two metres from our sleeping heads is a chickadee nest box. With the window open in the spring its a delight to listen to the young birds being fed. Well it seems a Downy Woodpecker has decided he fancies this box and is now in the process of opening the entrance cavity more to his likely. The effect is predictable albeit amusing.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I've posted 14 photos, the first two of Blomidon, eight of the Pennant Peninsula and the final four are of this morning's Snow Buntings.</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><A href="http://www.hanstoom.com/Highlights/Highlights25.html">http://www.hanstoom.com/Highlights/Highlights25.html</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>__________________________________________________<BR>Hans Toom<BR>Provincial Coordinator<BR>Nova Scotia's Migration Count<BR>e-mail: <A href="mailto:htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca">htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca</A><BR>NSMC website: <A href="http://hanstoom.com/NAMC/Index.html">http://hanstoom.com/NAMC/Index.html</A><BR>Nature website: <A href="http://hanstoom.com">http://hanstoom.com</A><BR>___________________________________________________</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> --Boundary_(ID_4M1DvtCDnnm8Ud7DtUIJ3w)--
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