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All: Pat McKay e-mailed yesterday to report three loons, one of which seemed to have features of Arctic Loon -'scoped at some distance in the harbour below her house. I went over and looked for it, but it had apparently moved off and I may have been searching the wrong part of the waters S, instead of N, of Alderney Landing. Today I had to go the airport early, so on the way home looked again fron Darmouth Cove to Tufts Cove, and only found one Common Loon. Nevertheless, it would be useful if people could keep up the search, as this Old-World species is unrecorded, but not beyond possibility, in NS. While searching yesterday (7 Jan.) and today (8 Jan.), I came across a number of birds of interest. Am. Wigeon - 45 yesterday, 30 today gazing on exposed turf. There were also another 20 or so in Tufts Cove, and some 25 scattered elslewhere. This must be a record year. Eur. Wigeon - 3 drakes and at least 1 hen (maybe another) with the others at Alderney Landing. Scaup (almost all Greaters), 60 yesterday in D'mth Cove 7 Jan. D.C. Cormorant - one both days in D'mth Cove An ad. Common Gull on the ice of the duck pond in E. Passage. (Same one as earlier? A little darker above than nearby Ringed-bills.) About 28 Bl. Guillemots D'mth Cove and Alderney Landing. House Sparrow. Given their apparent decline, it might pay to keep track of such sites. Came across three little flocks, all huddled in rose brambles or evergreens. About 6 each were respectively near Alderney Landing and at the foot of Niven Stree, D'mth, and the usual larger flock (15+?) was at the W entrance to the N Halifax Yard (fill dump site on the Peninsula's N Shore). Am
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