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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00E4_01C7E0BD.B276F650 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thursday, August 16, 2007 - The American Avocet was present two hours = after LOW tide and again later in the afternoon at Pond Cove. It seems = to prefer a certain spot in the eastern part of the main pind. At one = point, it was only 100 metres away from where I sat on the log. Could = not find the baird's sandpiper even though a local? birder showed me a = pair, which turned out to be least sandpipers :-( I wanted to stay and = stake out for shore birds shortly after the tide started to recede., but = the misty fog rolled making it difficult to study shorebirds on the = rocks due to strong SW winds.=20 Took a whale watch. It was one of the great pelagic watches I took. = Thousands of red and red necked phalaropes appeared. Here is the list Red necked phalaropes Red Phalaropes 1 Northern Fulmar 10 + Wilson's petrels, some of them flying close to our boat! 5 + Puffins 40 + Greater Shearwaters=20 10 + Sooty Shearwaters.=20 Gannets, none of them adult No jaegers No kittiwakes Pond Cove American Avocet - showing some pink tinge 2 White rumped sandpipers 20 Ruddy Turnstones Semi palmated sandpipers 2 Least sandpipers one semipalmated plover 2 Sanderlings dowitchers ------=_NextPart_000_00E4_01C7E0BD.B276F650 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" = "http://www.w3c.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"><!-- Network content --> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16525" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style=3D"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>Thursday, August 16, 2007 - The American Avocet = was=20 present two hours after LOW tide and again later in the afternoon at = Pond Cove.=20 It seems to prefer a certain spot in the eastern part of the main = pind. At=20 one point, it was only 100 metres away from where I sat on the log. = Could not find the baird's sandpiper even though a local? birder = showed me=20 a pair, which turned out to be least sandpipers :-( I wanted to = stay and=20 stake out for shore birds shortly after the tide started to recede., but = the=20 misty fog rolled making it difficult to study shorebirds on the = rocks due=20 to strong SW winds. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>Took a whale watch. It was one of the = great pelagic=20 watches I took. Thousands of red and red necked phalaropes=20 appeared. Here is the list</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>Red necked phalaropes</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>Red Phalaropes</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>1 Northern Fulmar</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>10 + Wilson's petrels, some of them flying close = to our=20 boat!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>5 + Puffins</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>40 + Greater Shearwaters </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>10 + Sooty Shearwaters. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>Gannets, none of them adult</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>No jaegers</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>No kittiwakes</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>Pond Cove</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>American Avocet - showing some pink = tinge</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>2 White rumped sandpipers</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>20 Ruddy Turnstones</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>Semi palmated sandpipers</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>2 Least sandpipers</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>one semipalmated plover</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>2 Sanderlings</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT = face=3DArial>dowitchers</FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_00E4_01C7E0BD.B276F650--
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