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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_DMgzQNGMPaiWwHw6TmJXpw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT ----- Original Message ----- From: Hans Toom To: Ns-Rba@Yahoogroups.Com Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:44 PM Subject: White-crowned Sparrow, Fox Sparrow, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher and Northern Cardinal The White-crowned Sparrow remains at our place in Portuguese Cove. I've posted two photos. At 6AM I started a 3.5 Hour hike on the coastal tail to Pennant Point, Crystal Crescent Beach PP. To my delight another Fox Sparrow is on territory, singing briskly, by the park gates. This is the same location where I found one last year and the year before that, making four locations in total alongside the road this year, so far. Another repeat performer is a Swamp Sparrow just 50 metres further along the road from the same gates singing in the same tree as last year and the year before that. There is no way to prove that these are the same birds but the coincidence is compelling, and amazing. For unknown reasons two pairs of Northern Gannets were flying south along the shoreline! This did not appear to be a fishing venture but a determination to go south. Is there a colony nearby that I don't know about? The biggest surprise of the morning was a female Northern Cardinal near the "enchanted forest", about half way to Pennant Point. In seven years of birding this place and near to 200 species in this park it's my first cardinal here. On my return leg alongside the road near the southern parking lot I spotted a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, my first of this year. Thee were lots of finches, sparrows and warblers singing everywhere. Hans http://www.hanstoom.com/Highlights/Highlight76.html ________________________________________________________________________________________________ When viewing images tap F11 or View Full Screen and use the navigation buttons on my website ________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hans Toom Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada E-mail: htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca Migration Count: http://hanstoom.com/NAMC/Index.html Nature Website: http://hanstoom.com ________________________________________________________________________________________________ --Boundary_(ID_DMgzQNGMPaiWwHw6TmJXpw) Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16441" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=Htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca href="mailto:Htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca">Hans Toom</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=ns-rba@yahoogroups.com href="mailto:Ns-Rba@Yahoogroups.Com">Ns-Rba@Yahoogroups.Com</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:44 PM</DIV> <DIV><B>Subject:</B> White-crowned Sparrow, Fox Sparrow, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher and Northern Cardinal</DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The White-crowned Sparrow remains at our place in Portuguese Cove. I've posted two photos.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>At 6AM I started a 3.5 Hour hike on the coastal tail to Pennant Point, Crystal Crescent Beach PP. To my delight another Fox Sparrow is on territory, singing briskly, by the park gates. This is the same location where I found one last year and the year before that, making four locations in total alongside the road this year, so far. Another repeat performer is a Swamp Sparrow just 50 metres further along the road from the same gates singing in the same tree as last year and the year before that. There is no way to prove that these are the same birds but the coincidence is compelling, and amazing.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For unknown reasons two pairs of Northern Gannets were flying south along the shoreline! This did not appear to be a fishing venture but a determination to go south. Is there a colony nearby that I don't know about?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The biggest surprise of the morning was a female Northern Cardinal near the "enchanted forest", about half way to Pennant Point. In seven years of birding this place and near to 200 species in this park it's my first cardinal here. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On my return leg alongside the road near the southern parking lot I spotted a Yellow-bellied Flycatcher, my first of this year.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thee were lots of finches, sparrows and warblers singing everywhere.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hans</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A href="http://www.hanstoom.com/Highlights/Highlight76.html">http://www.hanstoom.com/Highlights/Highlight76.html</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>________________________________________________________________________________________________<BR>When viewing images tap F11 or View Full Screen and use the navigation buttons on my website<BR>________________________________________________________________________________________________<BR>Hans Toom<BR>Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR>E-mail: <A href="mailto:htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca">htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca</A><BR>Migration Count: <A href="http://hanstoom.com/NAMC/Index.html">http://hanstoom.com/NAMC/Index.html</A><BR>Nature Website: http://hanstoom.com <BR>________________________________________________________________________________________________</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> --Boundary_(ID_DMgzQNGMPaiWwHw6TmJXpw)--
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