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> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --Boundary_(ID_+1q+99bBohi6wVNvHCPoXQ) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I can't give a short answer to Ulli's question, but he is right about the places to look -- lately we have had the best luck at The Guzzle (ne. point of the Grand Pre dykelands -- drive north across the dykelands north from the hist. park, then turn right and drive past the silos and as far east as you can go, and park there with the fishermen. Walk to the north point of the dyke and/or along the footpath east from the dyke out toward Boot Island where a spit of land sometimes has peeps at your feet plus passing flying flocks. The best times are during the high tide period, from about 2-3 hours before high tide to about 2 hours after high tide. My favourite area is the east end of Evangeline Beach, which is accessible by a 15-20 minute walk from either the Evangeline Beach canteen area or from The Guzzle along the dyke toward the west. And keep your eyes peeled for peregrine falcons and for merlins (pigeon hawks). Wolfville Harbour is worth checking at all stages of the tide, but at high tide look along the railroad tracks on the rocks at the water line, east of the pavilion. Shorebirds at Grand Pre include semipalmated sandpipers, semipalmated plovers, least sandpipers, white-rumped sandpipers, occasional sanderlings, a few black-bellied plovers and short-billed dowitchers. In Wolfville look for greater and lesser yellowlegs, willets, perhaps a Hudsonian godwit?, etc. Good luck, and Cheers from Jim in Wolfville ---------- From: Ulli Hoeger <ullihoeger@yahoo.com> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 05:12:45 -0700 (PDT) To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Subject: [NatureNS] RFI shorebird numbers in the Grand Pre area / Minas Basin Hello, I was wondering how the shorebird migration in the Grand Pre area is doing. I had people asking me when it would be best to go there to see the big flocks of sandpipers and where. I figure that numbers should have built up by now, so that people can observe the miracle of shorebird flocks moving as one mass. I assume that the Evangeline Beach area and the area towards Boot Island is still a good spot to go. Can anybody give me a quick update? I would appreciate it! Thanks Ulli P.S. I went out to Hartlen Point on Tuesday (July 31) evening and had a look at the shorebirds on the beaches off the golf course. Fog rolling in didn't help much, but still good shorebird watching. Lesser Yellowlegs and SB Dowitchers where dominant (several hundred individuals each), and I have seen considerable numbers of Semipalmated Plovers and Sandpipers inbetween the pebbles. Hard to give numbers for those, but at least 300-400 of each species for sure. Noteworthy: a single Pectoral Sandpiper and half a dozen Ruddy Turnstones (still in full breeding plumage). No Black-bellied Plovers ..... Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today! <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48517/*http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_pa nel_invite.asp?a=7> --Boundary_(ID_+1q+99bBohi6wVNvHCPoXQ) Content-type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>FW: [NatureNS] RFI shorebird numbers in the Grand Pre area / Minas Basin</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> I can't give a short answer to Ulli's question, but he is right about the places to look -- lately we have had the best luck at The Guzzle (ne. point of the Grand Pre dykelands -- drive north across the dykelands north from the hist. park, then turn right and drive past the silos and as far east as you can go, and park there with the fishermen. Walk to the north point of the dyke and/or along the footpath east from the dyke out toward Boot Island where a spit of land sometimes has peeps at your feet plus passing flying flocks. The best times are during the high tide period, from about 2-3 hours before high tide to about 2 hours after high tide. My favourite area is the east end of Evangeline Beach, which is accessible by a 15-20 minute walk from either the Evangeline Beach canteen area or from The Guzzle along the dyke toward the west.<BR> And keep your eyes peeled for peregrine falcons and for merlins (pigeon hawks). <BR> <BR> Wolfville Harbour is worth checking at all stages of the tide, but at high tide look along the railroad tracks on the rocks at the water line, east of the pavilion.<BR> <BR> Shorebirds at Grand Pre include semipalmated sandpipers, semipalmated plovers, least sandpipers, white-rumped sandpipers, occasional sanderlings, a few black-bellied plovers and short-billed dowitchers. In Wolfville look for greater and lesser yellowlegs, willets, perhaps a Hudsonian godwit?, etc. <BR> <BR> Good luck, and Cheers from Jim in Wolfville<BR> ----------<BR> <B>From: </B>Ulli Hoeger <ullihoeger@yahoo.com><BR> <B>Reply-To: </B>naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<BR> <B>Date: </B>Fri, 03 Aug 2007 05:12:45 -0700 (PDT)<BR> <B>To: </B>naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<BR> <B>Subject: </B>[NatureNS] RFI shorebird numbers in the Grand Pre area / Minas Basin<BR> <BR> Hello,<BR> <BR> I was wondering how the shorebird migration in the Grand Pre area is doing. I had people asking me when it would be best to go there to see the big flocks of sandpipers and where.<BR> <BR> I figure that numbers should have built up by now, so that people can observe the miracle of shorebird flocks moving as one mass. I assume that the Evangeline Beach area and the area towards Boot Island is still a good spot to go.<BR> <BR> Can anybody give me a quick update? I would appreciate it!<BR> <BR> Thanks<BR> <BR> Ulli<BR> <BR> P.S. I went out to Hartlen Point on Tuesday (July 31) evening and had a look at the shorebirds on the beaches off the golf course. Fog rolling in didn't help much, but still good shorebird watching. Lesser Yellowlegs and SB Dowitchers where dominant (several hundred individuals each), and I have seen considerable numbers of Semipalmated Plovers and Sandpipers inbetween the pebbles. Hard to give numbers for those, but at least 300-400 of each species for sure. Noteworthy: a single Pectoral Sandpiper and half a dozen Ruddy Turnstones (still in full breeding plumage). No Black-bellied Plovers .....<BR> <BR> <BR> <HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="1" WIDTH="100%"><BR> Shape Yahoo! in your own image. Join our Network Research Panel today! <http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48517/*http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7> <BR> </BODY> </HTML> --Boundary_(ID_+1q+99bBohi6wVNvHCPoXQ)--
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