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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 --------------------- 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> ---------------------- ³The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.² - Ellen Parr ---------------------- ³...... the Earth .....belongs as much to those who come after us as to us; and we have no right, by anything that we do, or neglect to do, to involve them in unnecessary penalties, or to deprive them of benefits which are theirs by right.² - John Ruskin ----------------------
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