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<html><div style='background-color:'><P> Yes, I know, the Horned Larks have been coming through for a month, and a few other things have been moving around lately, but yesterday afternoon (March 13) at Margaretsville I got the feeling that spring was really here! It was a sunny, mild day, with the water so calm that one could see almost anything on the surface between thwere and Isle Haute. There were the usual Common Eiders, Long-tailed Ducks, Surf Scoters, White-winged Scoters, Red-breasted Mergansers, and a Red-throated Loon and Horned Grebe - all in low numbers, but diving too frequently for me to get reliable counts. Then I saw a line of about 60 larger, dark, birds flying<BR>northeast toward the head of the Bay. The krronk- krronk of the Canada Goose drowning out the "kakawi" sounds of the ducks identified them before I was able to get my binoculars on them. Soon about as many flew over my head in a V heading NE along the shore - a very encouraging sign of spring for this part of the province. I also had two male Red-winged Blackbirds at my feeder Sunday (11th), the first since last autumn.</P> <P> Let's hope that the weather and sea are as co-operative for Richard Stern's NSBS/BNS field trip Sunday (meeting at Cottage Cove at 10:00 for those of us in the central and western part of the valley). Hope to see many of you there.</P> <P>Cheers,<BR><BR>Wayne</P> <DIV>Wayne Neily <BR>Tremont, Nova Scotia <BR><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></DIV></div><br clear=all><hr>One Care: free Trial Version Today! </html>
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