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Hi, We got back from spending 2 days at our camp on Brier. It was up to +13C today, and at one pont we walked round Whipple Point in shirtsleeves and it was still warm. There is a huge amount of seaweed piled up on the Pond Cove seawall and beach as a result of recent storms with heavy seas. There were many birds, and for me the highlights included - N.gannet - many , nearly all adults, off W.Light. G.B.Heron - 1 Pond Cove, 2 East Ferry. T.vulture - at least 5 at one point. Wildfowl - very few. I suspect most had either been shot or were scared of being shot. But there was a pair of Harlequins at W.Light. + 8 Ring-necks at Pond Cove. Many single Sharpies and several N.harriers. The (by now usual) Am. woodcock along Pond Cove Rd. at dusk. No other shorebirds. Am. Robin - Thre were hundreds, if not thousands - with flocks flying and roosting all over the island the whole weekend. Dicksissel - 1 juv. plumage trying to negociate through the Grackles at a feeder in town. Baltimore oriole - 1 in Westport C.grackle and Red-winged blackbird - large mixed flock roaming around Westport. Richard -- ################# Richard Stern, 317 Middle Dyke Rd., RR#1 Port Williams, NS, Canada B0P 1T0 rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca rbstern@xcountry.tv sternrichard@gmail.com ###################
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