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Ian and I spent the morning in the metro area. We first visited Seaview Park, and managed to find none of the unusual birds previously reported, but we were impressed by the flock of six Red Junglefowl. There were but a few gulls on the playing fields at Shannon Park, and no birds of note at Albro Lake. Sullivan's Pond was also a bit quiet, though we counted 3 American Coots. We arrived at Bissett Lake in time to see thousands of geese in the air, having taken flight in response to a power boat on the lake (which the owner then took out of the water for the winter -- about time). We couldn't spy anything odd among the circling geese, and there were almost no ducks in evidence, though there were 3 more American Coots. The highlight of our day was a visit to Rainbow Haven, about two hours after high tide, and as the first mud flats were being exposed in Cole Harbour. We walked along the side of the estuary channet from the beach, and where the estuary channel begins to open up, there were hundreds of shorebirds on the newly exposed mud flats. They were difficult to count, but there were at least: 70 Black-bellied Plover 80 Red Knot 200 Dunlin a few Sanderling We also had 2 Greater Yellowlegs, 2 Great Blue Herons, 12 Lapland Longspurs, 8 Horned Larks, 1 Ipswich Sparrow. A quick visit to Hartlen Point found the golfers still on the fairways, and there were 18 longspurs and 6 pipits along the beach, which certainly took a beating from Hurricane Noel. A pleasant morning, in advance of the storm. Cheers, ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blake Maybank maybank@ns.sympatico.ca Editor, "Nova Scotia Birds" author, "Birding Sites of Nova Scotia" http://maybank.tripod.com/BSNS.htm 144 Bayview Drive White's Lake, Nova Scotia, B3T 1Z1, Canada (902) 852-2077 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.28/1123 - Release Date: 10/11/2007 3:47 PM
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