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--Apple-Mail-46-865908600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hello everyone: I thought that you might be interested to read that the birding in the UK has been quite good this year. This is tne first paragraph of a much longer post from the Irish Bird List. Pat Begin forwarded message: > > A period of gale-force Northwesterlies instantly replaced by a flow of > ENEasterlies has resulted in an incredible run of grade-one vagrants, > mainly in > Scotland and eastern England. In fact, in the last week, no less than > 14 species > have occurred in Britain for the first time this year - Pechora Pipit, > American > Buff-bellied Pipit, Siberian Stonechat, White's Thrush, Siberian > Thrush, > Swainson's Thrush, Grey-cheeked Thrush, Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler, > Lanceolated > Warbler, Sardinian Warbler, Arctic Warbler, Radde's Warbler, > Isabelline Shrike > and Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll. 2007 is now only six birds short of the > all-time 2006 record of 427 species and with the easterly winds set to > continue, it > seems that a new record will be broken in October. > ======================================================================== == Patrick Kelly Director of Computer Facilities ======================================================================== == Faculty of Architecture and Planning Dalhousie University ======================================================================== == PO Box 1000 Stn Central 5410 Spring Garden Road Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 Canada Canada ======================================================================== == Phone:(902) 494-3294 FAX:(902) 423-6672 E-mail:patrick.kelly@dal.ca ======================================================================== == --Apple-Mail-46-865908600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=US-ASCII Hello everyone: I thought that you might be interested to read that the birding in the UK has been quite good this year. This is tne first paragraph of a much longer post from the Irish Bird List. Pat Begin forwarded message: <excerpt> A period of gale-force Northwesterlies instantly replaced by a flow of ENEasterlies has resulted in an incredible run of grade-one vagrants, mainly in Scotland and eastern England. In fact, in the last week, no less than 14 species have occurred in Britain for the first time this year - Pechora Pipit, American Buff-bellied Pipit, Siberian Stonechat, White's Thrush, Siberian Thrush, Swainson's Thrush, Grey-cheeked Thrush, Pallas's Grasshopper Warbler, Lanceolated Warbler, Sardinian Warbler, Arctic Warbler, Radde's Warbler, Isabelline Shrike and Hornemann's Arctic Redpoll. 2007 is now only six birds short of the all-time 2006 record of 427 species and with the easterly winds set to continue, it seems that a new record will be broken in October. </excerpt><fontfamily><param>Courier</param> ========================================================================== Patrick Kelly Director of Computer Facilities ========================================================================== Faculty of Architecture and Planning Dalhousie University ========================================================================== PO Box 1000 Stn Central 5410 Spring Garden Road Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 Canada Canada ========================================================================== Phone:(902) 494-3294 FAX:(902) 423-6672 E-mail:patrick.kelly@dal.ca ========================================================================== </fontfamily> --Apple-Mail-46-865908600--
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