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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_F1vs4H6JPytGWF/ZtfPVAw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Ken McKenna Box 218 Stellarton NS B0K 1S0 902 752-7644 Hi all Saturday Sept. 28 was an excellent day for birding on Big I. despite the drizzle/fog in the morning and wind in the afternoon. I tallied just shy of 70 species on Big I. Nothing was too rare but there were some nice finds and big numbers of some birds. Highlights were an imm. Peregrine Falcon dining from a snag as seen from the Wharf Road, 30+ Storm Petrels-( Wilson's to my eye), hundreds of N. Gannets, a Sora Rail flushed from the big marsh at high tide, 2 Horned Larks, and ~ 35 Great Blue Heron. A Peregrine also made a cruise throgh the dunes at the east end from a quick look it appeared to be an adult. At one point I observed 600 Scoters fly by the entrance to Merigomish Harbour . There were 20 White-winged in the group and the rest appeared to be Surf Scoter. About 100 sparrows were identified with the following breakdown- 20 Song, 32 Savanah, 10 Swamp, 50 White-throat, 4 Junco and 1 Lincolns. Only 7 species of warbler noted--9 Common Yellowthroat, 1 Palm, 5 Myrtle, 1 Parula, 3 Magnolia, 1 Black and White, and 2 Black-throated Green. There were 4 Ruby-crowned Kinglets, 2 Common Terns and 100 Bonapartes Gulls. Here is the list of 13 species of shorebird seen. American Golden Plover-1 Black-bellied Plover-9 Semipalmated Plover-100 Piping Plover-1 Greater Yellowlegs-5 Lesser Yellowlegs-5 Pectoral Sandpiper-10 Dunlin-50 Dowicher sp.?-4 Sanderling-4 Semipalmated Sandpiper-21 White-rumped sandpiper-1 Least Sandpiper-4 --Boundary_(ID_F1vs4H6JPytGWF/ZtfPVAw) 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>Saturday Sept. 28 was an excellent day for birding on Big I. despite the drizzle/fog in the morning and wind in the afternoon. I tallied just shy of 70 species on Big I. Nothing was too rare but there were some nice finds and big numbers of some birds. Highlights were an imm. Peregrine Falcon dining from a snag as seen from the Wharf Road, 30+ Storm Petrels-( Wilson's to my eye), hundreds of N. Gannets, a Sora Rail flushed from the big marsh at high tide, 2 Horned Larks, and ~ 35 Great Blue Heron. A Peregrine also made a cruise throgh the dunes at the east end from a quick look it appeared to be an adult. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>At one point I observed 600 Scoters fly by the entrance to Merigomish Harbour . </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There were 20 White-winged in the group and the rest appeared to be Surf Scoter. About 100 sparrows were identified with the following breakdown- 20 Song, 32 Savanah, 10 Swamp, 50 White-throat, 4 Junco and 1 Lincolns. Only 7 species of warbler noted--9 Common Yellowthroat, 1 Palm, 5 Myrtle, 1 Parula, 3 Magnolia, 1 Black and White, and 2 Black-throated Green. There were 4 Ruby-crowned Kinglets, 2 Common Terns and 100 Bonapartes Gulls. Here is the list of 13 species of shorebird seen. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>American Golden Plover-1</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Black-bellied Plover-9</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Semipalmated Plover-100</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Piping Plover-1</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Greater Yellowlegs-5</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Lesser Yellowlegs-5</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Pectoral Sandpiper-10</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dunlin-50</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dowicher sp.?-4</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Sanderling-4</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Semipalmated Sandpiper-21</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>White-rumped sandpiper-1</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Least Sandpiper-4</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML> --Boundary_(ID_F1vs4H6JPytGWF/ZtfPVAw)--
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