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Index of Subjects Hi, I saw (and took lots of pics) of the same bird today at around 1:30pm - it kept flying short distances, and obviously had a very full crop, and then returning to the same post. I imagine it had the remains of a kill up there. Also saw a light-phase Rough-leg, a F. N.Harrier, and the usual 3 or 4 Red-tails. No sign of any Gyrfalcons, though! Richard On 12/15/06, Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> wrote: > Dec. 15, 2006 - I checked the main road across the Grand Pre dykelands, and > the immature PEREGRINE FALCON was sitting on the top of a power pole about > half-way across the ³reclaimed² marshland. I was able to view it closely > with my scope from inside the car. Its moustache marks are very heavy and > bold on this very dark bird, very dark brown on its back and heavily > streaked underneath, with a blue-gray cere. The heavy moustaches etc. > suggest this immature is of the ³anatum² race, what Cyril Coldwell used to > call a ³Duck Hawk² -- this was the most heavily endangered race of > peregrine. > > I also saw a first-year NORTHERN HARRIER, a large female, harrying at low > altitude over the fields not far from the peregrine. > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204 > --------------------- > 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> > ---------------------- > ³Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products > of our invention.² -- Whitney M. Young -- [found in Nov. 2/06 Chronicle > Herald] > ---------------------- > -- ################# 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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