[NatureNS] shorebirds etc. at Windsor sewage ponds just after high tide

Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:05:40 -0300
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Sept. 26, 2007 - Add to the feeder-birds above, a male PURPLE FINCH.

Full Moon today (yesterday Moonrise in early evening was very impressive),
and extremely WARM and Sunny, with mid-day temperatures in mid- to high 20s
C. (up to 33 C. in my greenhouse-effect car).

The fairly impressive HIGH TIDE was at 1 p.m.  (The biggest tides will be
two days from now, from the combination of todayıs Full Moon plus tomorrowıs
Perigee (closest Moon distance from Earth).

I drove to the Windsor Sewage Ponds and arrived there at h.t. + 45 minutes.
I was there for about an hour of freely perspiring and trying to sort out
the shorebirds (the very warm wind helped a bit).  Here is what I observed:

40+ BLACK-BELLIED PLOVERS, 2 KILLDEERS, 4 RUDDY TURNSTONES (in winter/imm.
plumage), 3 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 5 DOWITCHERS (SHORT-BILLED?), 2 PECTORAL
SANDPIPERS, 2 RED KNOTS, 3 SPOTTED SANDPIPERS,

plus 70 CANADA GEESE, 40+ AM. BLACK DUCKS, 1 MALLARD, 20+ GREEN-WINGED
TEALS, 8 ROCK DOVES, plus GULLS (mostly HERRING, with a few GR. BLACK-BACKED
and RING-BILLED). 

Cheers :-) from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204
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Jim (James W.) Wolford
91 Wickwire Avenue 
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada
B4P 1W3
phone (902)542-9204 (home)
fax (902)585-1059 (Acadia Univ. Biology Dept.)
e-mail <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
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