[NatureNS] birds and seals seen near Pictou and New Glasgow Nov. 7 with Ken

Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2007 01:19:03 -0400
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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
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Jim (James W.) Wolford
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