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After not having a car for almost two weeks, and then laying low with doctors orders to take two days off from work for being next thing to pneumonia, I finally made it back out birding yesterday. I got my vehicle back also safe again for the road. A bad month for repairs at least for me. I managed to get out for a half hour along Crescent Beach and out to Belle Island yesterday. I wish that I would have had more time as in that time I located 32 species. Today in spending about four hours and driving hundreds of kilometers in comparison, I only found 29 species. I found it extremely quite with little movement. Warblers were especially scarce in the areas that I went to with only two species. Common yellowthroats in Broad Cove and a movement of Yellow-rumped warblers in my yard at Dublin Shore. Yesterday I had magnolia warbler and black-throated green in addition. Shorebirds along Crescent Beach Yesterday were: Semi-palmated Sandpiper 27 Semi-palmated Plover 36 Willet 2 Short-billed Dowitcher 31 Least Sandpiper 12 Sanderling 14 Red Knot 1 White-rumped Sandpiper 1 Greater Yellowlegs 8 Black-bellied Plover 25 Two belted kingfishers were chasing one another at Bush Island. On Belle Island there were three boreal chickadees. Today I watched two rock pigeons in courtship. Although they nest year round, this is the first time I have observed courtship during this time of year. Maybe it was pair bonding, but the actions suggested courtship. I must say that my visit to Cherry Hill Beach today was depressing and I was disappointed. When I arrived there was a man collecting seaweed and therefore all shorebirds that normally are present at the entrance at high tide were not there. Also, two people with two dogs ranging everywheres on the beach did not bode well for my walk. The people and dogs walked out to the end and the dogs even romped out onto the rocks where the majority of shorebirds stage, during high tide. I therefore did not walk all the way out and turned back in disgust. Shorebirds observed: Semi-palmated sandpiper 24 Least sandpiper 1 Semi-palmated plover 25 Sanderling 22 Willet 2 Black-bellied Plover 1 Greater Yellowlegs 3 Lesser Yellowlegs 2 One northern gannet only was seen and seven green-winged teal. There were still three savannah sparrows there. Nineteen species only on Cherry Hill today. _________________________________________________________________ Get a FREE small business Web site and more from Microsoft® Office Live! http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/aub0930003811mrt/direct/01/
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