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<html><div style='background-color:'><P>Hello everyone,</P> <P> A few birds of interest to report, although I'm not sure even the Barrow's qualifies as "rare". It is certainly uncommon in this part of the Province, though, so I was delighted to see a male Barrow's Goldeneye in the Annapolis River just below the tidal power dam Friday afternoon (March 9). It was most easily viewed from the area behind the large "Used Clothing" warehouse there, although that would vary with tide and direction of the sun. There were at least 4 goldeneyes there, diving actively, a pair of Common Goldeneye, and probably a female Barrow's, although I could not get a really good look at it. The only other ducks in the area were about 18 Red-breasted Mergansers. </P> <P> Returning via the shore road, I saw a few of most of the usual species, but the wind and wave action were too high to get good counts or even see anything farther out. Horned grebe, Surf and White-winged Scoter, Long-tailed Duck, Common Eider and Common Loon were picked out from Parker's Cove to Port Lorne, and an Iceland Gull (Kumlein's) among other gulls at Port Lorne. Beside the usual land birds, I saw one Pine Grosbeak at Young's Cove, five American Robins at Hampton Beach, and one at Port Lorne. The Robins were probably overwintering ones, although I notice that there were also increased reports of them on the N. B. side of the Bay this week. An adult Bald Eagle at Outram and a Red-tailed Hawk at Phinney Cove with a dark, but unbarred tail were the only raptors seen in that area, but an adult Northern Goshawk had flown across the road at Torbrook Mines that morning as I was going to work.</P> <P> No new species recently at my feeders in Tremont, but on Wednesday (8 March) two Brown Creepers were present instead of the one that had been around all winter. Of course, it may have been that two were present all along, but I did not see more than one at a time before, as they do not actually come to the feeders, but move inconspicuously around the trees.</P> <P> Cheers,<BR><BR>Wayne Neily <BR>Tremont, Nova Scotia <BR><BR>"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, <BR>There is a rapture on the lonely shore, <BR>There is society where none intrudes, <BR>By the deep sea, and music in its roar: <BR>I love not man the less, but Nature more." - George Gordon, Lord Byron, 1812. <BR><BR></P></div><br clear=all><hr> The average US Credit Score is 675. The cost to see yours: $0 by Experian. </html>
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