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Index of Subjects <html><div style='background-color:'><P>Hello Pat,</P> <P> Although I am also hesitant about encouraging this particular form of madness, it's no worse than winter lists for a period that is not really winter! Your "Depths of Winter" is a more appropriate title here than Rob's "Dead of Winter", which, as a long-time Manitoba resident, I can admit was appropriate for February there.</P> <P> A few additional species that I have noticed:</P> <P> Red-necked Grebe - 1 at Port George, 2 Feb.; </P> <P> Harlequin Duck - 12 at Port George, 2 Feb.; (also 4 Long-tailed Ducks there)</P> <P> Pine Grosbeak - 9 at East Margaretsville 2 Feb.<BR><BR>Cheers,</P>Wayne<BR><BR><BR> <DIV>Wayne Neily <BR>Tremont, Nova Scotia <BR><BR>"Come forth into the light of things, <BR>Let Nature be your teacher." - William Wordsworth, 1798. <BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #a0c6e5 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11px; FONT-FAMILY: tahoma,sans-serif"> <HR color=#a0c6e5 SIZE=1> From: <I>"Patricia L. Chalmers" <Patricia.Chalmers@ukings.ns.ca></I><BR>Reply-To: <I>naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</I><BR>To: <I>NatureNS <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca></I><BR>Subject: <I>[NatureNS] Depths of Winter List of Birds</I><BR>Date: <I>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:33:54 -0400</I><BR>Hi there,<BR><BR>I was interested to see Blake's report of the Nova Scotia Winter List reaching 200 species. I confess that I'm always a little ambivalent about winter listing, since finding lots of lingering songbirds in early December seems to be the key to a big list. I feel sorry for the "doomed birds", but am astonished by those which survive thanks to the kindness of backyard bird-feeders. It is fascinating, though, to see the range and variety of species which have turned up here between the first of December and the end of February, and I salute Blake for compiling these records for us - for eleven years!<BR><BR>On the other hand, the diversity of bird species which are found here, in even the coldest weather, impresses me too - as well as the hardiness of the birders who seek them out. You have to get outdoors, often in bitter weather, if you want to see a Snowy Owl or some other winter specialty. And as we've seen this week, surprises turn up. So the idea of a list of what's still around once winter has really set in, such as the "Dead of Winter List" kept by Rob Parsons in Manitoba, appeals to me as representative of winter in our province. For his purposes, this is a February list. I was looking at the reports on Manitobabirds at http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/MANI.html the other day, and at present the list stands at 46 species. I began to compare it with what we might find, and of course many of the birds are the same. We aren't going to get a Sharp-tailed Grouse or a Black-billed Magpie, though a Varied Thrush would be possible. It was amusing to see Harris's Sparrow on both lists. And WE have two other typically western birds, a Yellow-headed Blackbird and a Western Tanager!<BR><BR>I have compiled the following list of birds reported (via NatureNS or the NS-RBA) so far in Nova Scotia this month, (plus a few I've seen myself). Since I was comparing it to the Manitoba list, I followed the same taxonomic order. I could see how things were going to shape up as soon as I got to Bald Eagle, which is 8th on their list and 28th on ours - we have so many ducks still, thanks to the seacoast and open freshwater magnets like Sullivan's Pond.<BR><BR><BR>Nova Scotia Depths of Winter List 2007<BR><BR>1 .. Canada Goose<BR>2 .. Brant<BR>3 .. Green-winged Teal<BR>4 .. Black Duck<BR>5 .. Mallard<BR>6 .. Northern Shoveler<BR>7 .. Northern Pintail<BR>8 .. Gadwall<BR>9 ... American Wigeon<BR>10.. Eurasian Wigeon<BR>11.. Redhead<BR>12 ..Ring-necked Duck<BR>13 ..Lesser Scaup<BR>14.. Greater Scaup<BR>15.. Common Eider<BR>16.. Black Scoter<BR>17.. Surf Scoter<BR>18.. White-winged Scoter<BR>19.. Bufflehead<BR>20.. Barrow's Goldeneye<BR>21.. Hooded Merganser<BR>22.. Common Merganser<BR>23.. Red-breasted Merganser<BR>24.. Ring-necked Pheasant<BR>25.. Northern Fulmar<BR>26.. Great Cormorant<BR>27.. American Bittern<BR>28.. Bald Eagle<BR>29.. Northern Harrier<BR>30.. Sharp-shinnned Hawk<BR>31.. Cooper's Hawk<BR>32.. Red-tailed Hawk<BR>33.. Rough-legged Hawk<BR>34.. Merlin<BR>35.. Peregrine Falcon<BR>36.. American Coot<BR>37.. Black-bellied Plover<BR>38.. Killdeer<BR>39.. Red Knot<BR>40.. Sanderling<BR>41.. Purple Sandpiper<BR>42.. Dunlin<BR>43.. American Woodcock<BR>44.. Black-headed Gull<BR>45.. Ring-billed Gull<BR>46.. Herring Gull<BR>47.. Iceland Gull<BR>48.. Great Black-backed Gull<BR>49.. Dovekie<BR>50.. Common Murre<BR>51.. Thick-billed Murre<BR>52.. Razorbill<BR>53.. Black Guillemot<BR>54.. Rock Pigeon<BR>55.. Mourning Dove<BR>56.. Great Horned Owl<BR>57.. Snowy Owl<BR>58.. Barred Owl<BR>59.. Short-eared Owl<BR>60.. Belted Kingfisher<BR>61.. Yellow-bellied Sapsucker<BR>62.. Downy Woodpecker<BR>63.. Hairy Woodpecker<BR>64.. Northern Flicker<BR>65.. Gray Jay<BR>66.. Blue Jay<BR>67.. American Crow<BR>68.. Common Raven<BR>69.. Horned Lark<BR>70.. Black-capped Chickadee<BR>71.. Red-breasted Nuthatch<BR>72.. White-breasted Nuthatch<BR>73.. Brown Creeper<BR>74.. Golden-crowned Kinglet<BR>75.. Hermit Thrush<BR>76.. American Robin<BR>77.. Northern Mockingbird<BR>78.. European Starling<BR>79.. Pine Warbler<BR>80.. Western Tanager<BR>81.. American Tree Sparrow<BR>82.. Chipping Sparrow<BR>83.. Vesper Sparrow<BR>84.. Savannah Sparrow<BR>84a.."Ipswich" Savannah Sparrow<BR>85.. Song Sparrow<BR>86.. White-throated Sparrow<BR>87.. Harris's Sparrow<BR>88.. Dark-eyed Junco<BR>89.. Lapland Longspur<BR>90.. Northern Cardinal<BR>91.. Yellow-headed Blackbird<BR>92.. Common Grackle<BR>93.. Pine Siskin<BR>94.. American Goldfinch<BR>95.. Evening Grosbeak<BR>96.. House Sparrow<BR><BR>This was much more work than I thought when I started it, in an idle moment, but if others think it's interesting I'll update it periodically.<BR><BR>Cheers,<BR><BR>Patricia L. Chalmers<BR>Halifax<BR><BR></FONT></BLOCKQUOTE></div><br clear=all><hr>Buy what you want when you want it on Sympatico / MSN Shopping </html>
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