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Nov. 7, 2007 - Ken McKenna gave me a mini-tour of the New Glasgow and Pictou areas this morning. Highlights for me were at Waterside Beach Provincial Park, where we walked the seaweed-covered beach and saw the following shorebirds: 1 GREATER YELLOWLEGS (actually this bird was in another marsh nearby), 1 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 1 BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, 1 SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, 25 SANDERLINGS, 5 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPERS, 1 SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER. Near the shorebirds at the top of the beach were 4+ HORNED LARKS. Just offshore were 40 RED-THROATED LOONS (I didnšt see these well, but Ken is used to them there in numbers at this time of year) and numerous BONAPARTEšS GULLS (these gulls were seen in numbers just about everywhere we went this morning). Elsewhere we saw lots of CANADA GEESE, numbers of HOODED and COMMON MERGANSERS (and Ken saw RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS, too), 1 probable adult ICELAND GULL (but not seen well enough to eliminate a small GLAUCOUS?) at the New Glasgow sewage treatment plant, 2+ PINE GROSBEAKS, 4 HARBOUR SEALS with the Bonapartešs Gulls at the south end of the Pictou Causeway, where there were still a few dozens of DOUBLE-CRESTED CORMORANTS. No SCAUPS at all at the Causeway. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville --------------------- 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> ---------------------- ŗ...... 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.˛ - John Ruskin ----------------------
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