[NatureNS] Western Tanager and Redhead Duck, etc

Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:54:10 -0400
From: Joan Czapalay <joancz@ns.sympatico.ca>
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Sorry, Lance, I forgot to say the three *Killdeer* were still at the 
ballfield in Clark's Harbour on Tuesday noon time. Also an *Iceland Gull 
*there earlier on Tuesday. In Shelburne  at the Roseway River was a Red 
tailed Hawk. Cheers, Joan

Joan Czapalay wrote:
> On Sunday I did some birding in Shelburne and Pubnico area. The 
> *Western Tanager* is still at Ethelda Murphy's feeders in front of her 
> home in Pubnico. It sometimes tends the feeders across the street, 
> too. Also there were five *Grackles*, A *Red-winged Blackbird*, 
> *Juncos*, *Golden* *crowned Kinglets*, *Blue Jays*, *White-throated 
> Sparrows,  *and a  *male and female Cardinal.* Sunday afternoon there 
> was a *Tern sp*. on the Pond near the CO-Op store. I was driving with 
> my daughter, so didn't do a positive ID. (I presume it was the 
> Forester's, but I couldn't count it !)We noted the *Great Blue* 
> *Heron* there.
> Monday the weather turned nasty- I saw few birds in the Shelburne area.
> Tuesday I was working on CSI and was able to do some birding at noon 
> time and after school. Thanks, Clyde, for your help. I missed the Palm 
> Warblers at Wind Whistle Hill, but a large *Peregrine* *Falcon *went 
> past the house (the most southern house in Nova Scotia) very closely. 
> A female *N. Harrier* was hunting the marsh, and 34 *Brant *were on 
> the flats at the Hawk. There were 3 *Harequins* off the Green Knoll. I 
> twice missed the *Redhead *(on Dec 17th and at noontime), but thanks 
> to Johnny and Sandra, saw it about 3pm yesterday with some Common 
> Eider. Near Isaac's Pond in Centreville there was a *Swamp Sparrow*. I 
> saw one *Song*** *Sparrow* on CSI, as well as the usual *Mourning 
> Doves, Crows, a couple of Ravens, Black-backed, Herring and 
> Ring-billed Gulls, Black, Mallard and Eider Ducks, a Greater and a 
> Lesser Scaup (one of each), and one Sharp-shinned Hawk *on my way off 
> the island. Cheers, Joan
>
>

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