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H Kent & All, Jan 4, 2008
That is interesting. Apparently nests are at the end of a 4-8 foot
long tunnel in banks of unconsolidated material (sand, gravel, sawdust...).
Consequently, south of the Digby/Canso line, nesting sites would be
almost entirely limited to erosion banks or highway cuts in eskers and
drumlins.
Yt, DW, Kentville
Kent Mullin wrote:
> Roland & all,
>
> Don't know whether this counts, as I'm not sure if this behaviour
> typical or anomalous, but I have a summer place on a tributary (about
> thirty feet wide) of the West River in Pictou Cty. where a female
> belted K.F. used to regularly feed and hang out - with the exception
> of nesting time when she used an established tunnel in the bank of a
> dried rivulet about six hundred yards from the water. During this
> time, for several weeks, she would perch on a power line, always
> within a couple of hundred feet of her nest, from where she would
> prey on the local insect population (I assume feeding herself and her
> chick/s, as she would be absent from the river). After several weeks
> she would return to her normal feeding habit at the river - always
> alone, never with a youngster in tow. I haven't seen her for a couple
> of years now, since the spring when they clear cut the area where her
> nest was.
>
> K.
>
> On 2-Jan-08, at 10:20 PM, Roland McCormick wrote:
>
>> Two questions about the kingfishers:
>> (1) Are kingfishers ever seen in flocks, or are they always seen
>> one at a time?
>> (2) Are they ever seen away from the ocean, a lake, or a good sized
>> body of water?
>> (3) They seem to be found all over NS but never in large numbers
>> anywhere. I tend to agree with Murray.
>>
>>
>
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