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Index of Subjects We also took advantage of the beautiful day to do the Martinique Beach walk. Apart from the Sanderling, the pair + a single Piping Plover and one Great Blue Heron which Blake mentions below, there were also good numbers of sea ducks still present, concentrated at the western end of the Beach. There were at least a dozen Long-tailed Ducks, half a dozen Black Scoters and a few Common Eiders close to shore. Further out there were many more scoters, too far to ID, but all those that flew were White-winged. We also spoke with several people with off-leash dogs; none had seen the plovers. Of course, most walkers with or without dogs concentrate on the ocean side of the beach while the plovers were seen across the dunes on the north side. The only other birds of spring in evidence were small flocks of grackles, a couple of robins and a kingfisher on the wires near Lawrencetown Beach. There was a single Green-winged Teal and about a dozen scaup sp at Bissett Lake. Cheers, Bob and Wendy McDonald ----- Original Message ----- From: "Blake Maybank" <maybank@ns.sympatico.ca> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 6:05 PM Subject: [NatureNS] April 15 - Martinique Beach Provincial Park > 15 April 2007 > > It was an exquisite day to stroll the length of Martinique Beach. We > were not the only ones with that idea -- the western parking lot was > filled with the cars of surfers, the eastern parking lot with truck and > boat trailers for the clammers, and the parking lots in between with the > cars of strollers and dog-walkers. We kept to the beach, as it was so > lovely, and didn't try for Ipswich Sparrows, but we saw the pair of Piping > Plover, as well as a flock of 11 Sanderling, presumably the overwintering > birds. Not many other birds around, but I did see my first Great Blue > Heron of the year. > > Everyone with dogs had them off leash, but I talked to all that were > approaching the Piping Plover nesting area, and all leashed them once they > understood the birds had returned. All seemed surprised that the birds > had already returned. > > We also discovered the remains of a Common Murre on the shoulder of East > Petpeswick Road, just north of the Martinique Provincial Park entrance. > The remains appeared to be several days old. > > Good birding, > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Blake Maybank > Editor, "Nova Scotia Birds" > > author, "Birding Sites of Nova Scotia" > http://maybank.tripod.com/BSNS.htm > > 144 Bayview Drive > White's Lake, Nova Scotia, > B3T 1Z1, Canada > > maybank@ns.sympatico.ca > (902) 852-2077 > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.4.0/762 - Release Date: 15/04/2007 > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.4.0/761 - Release Date: 4/14/2007 > 9:36 PM >
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