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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_p14mXJ3ApCb4O16QSpOULg) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Ken McKenna Box 218 Stellarton NS B0K 1S0 902 752-7644 Hi all Mitchell Grant and I made a trip to Big I., Pictou Co. Sunday ( Sept. = 16) afternoon. Here is a summary of what we saw.=20 Our first look at the seaward side of the causeway gave a quick but = convincing look at a Leaches Storm- Petrel with its nighthawk like = flight and it headed east. While scoping for more we saw 2 Red-necked = Grebes - my first for the fall season. A single American Pipit was on = the rocks. Scoping from the dunes closer to the island, we saw a second = storm petrel which flew and landed on the water. We watched it for some = time as it did this several times over the next 40 min. or so. Then it = lifted and flew directly at us and just before it reached shore it = turned and gave a really good view of the squared off tail and unmarked = white rump. The flight of this Wilson's Storm Petrel was not like the = flight of the more narrow-winged one we had seen earlier. An Adult = Caspian Tern made a couple of passes along the causeway as we were = looking for petrels. There were about 75 Common Terns mostly on the bar = at the west end of the Island. At least 8 Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrows = flushed as we hiked to the mudflats on the south side of the big = saltmarsh. As usual there were 40+ Great Blue Herons and scores of = Bonaparte's Gulls. Warblers were mostly Myrtles, but also had Parula, = Magnolia and Palm as well as both Red-eyed and Blue-headed Vireos.=20 Here is a list of shorebirds seen on the island Greater Yellowlegs-2 Lesser Yellowlegs-40 Black-bellied Plover-4 Whimbrel-1 Dunlin-1 White-rumped Sandpiper-1 Semipalmated Plover-56 Semipalmated Sandpiper-20 Least Sandpiper-15 Sanderling-1 Ruddy Turnstone-1 cheers Ken= --Boundary_(ID_p14mXJ3ApCb4O16QSpOULg) 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 6.00.6000.16525" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ken McKenna<BR>Box 218 Stellarton NS<BR>B0K 1S0<BR>902 752-7644<BR>Hi all</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Mitchell Grant and I made a trip to Big I., Pictou Co. Sunday ( Sept. 16) afternoon. Here is a summary of what we saw. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Our first look at the seaward side of the causeway gave a quick but convincing look at a Leaches Storm- Petrel with its nighthawk like flight and it headed east. While scoping for more we saw 2 Red-necked Grebes - my first for the fall season. A single American Pipit was on the rocks. Scoping from the dunes closer to the island, we saw a second storm petrel which flew and landed on the water. We watched it for some time as it did this several times over the next 40 min. or so. Then it lifted and flew directly at us and just before it reached shore it turned and gave a really good view of the squared off tail and unmarked white rump. The flight of this Wilson'</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>s Storm Petrel was not like the flight of the more narrow-winged one we had seen earlier. An Adult Caspian Tern made a couple of passes along the causeway as we were looking for petrels. There were about 75 Common Terns mostly on the bar at the west end of the Island. At least 8 Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrows flushed as we hiked to the mudflats on the south side of the big saltmarsh. As usual there were 40+ Great Blue Herons and scores of Bonaparte's Gulls. Warblers were mostly Myrtles, but also had Parula, Magnolia and Palm as well as both Red-eyed and Blue-headed Vireos. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here is a list of shorebirds seen on the island</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Greater Yellowlegs-2</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lesser Yellowlegs-40</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Black-bellied Plover-4</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Whimbrel-1</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dunlin-1</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>White-rumped Sandpiper-1</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Semipalmated Plover-56</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Semipalmated Sandpiper-20</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Least Sandpiper-15</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sanderling-1</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ruddy Turnstone-1</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>cheers</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ken</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> --Boundary_(ID_p14mXJ3ApCb4O16QSpOULg)--
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