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Dec. 8, 2007 - Sheila McCurdy took a long walk at Grand Pre with her dog, noting several flocks of REDPOLLS on the dykelands. She was along the main dyke just south of the west end of Long Island when she found an apparently freshly DEAD BUTEO HAWK, which she put in a plastic bag and brought it to my house and left it there for me to find in late afternoon. It appears to me to be an INTERMEDIATE PHASE ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK, perhaps an immature?, and it was found in a spot where a road-kill is unlikely. However, the tail shows little or no white (OK?); I didnąt check on the undersides of the wings. I also didnąt feel the breast muscles before I took it to an Acadia Biology freezer for Fred Scott to find later. I think Luke DeCicco reported a rough-leg at Grand Pre just a few days ago, but he didnąt say what plumage he saw. At our feeders in Wolfville, a new very small sparrow showed up today, probably a CHIPPING SPARROW but I will reserve judgement until I can rule on whether it might be the less likely but regular stray, a CLAY-COLOURED SPARROW. Cheers :-) from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204 --------------------- 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> ---------------------- ł...... 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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