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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-19--849082782 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hello everyone: I went to see the egret at 3:00 PM. It was back in the brook on the south side of the road. Twice I saw it stab at something and once it did a "swallowing" motion, so it must have gotten something! Here are three pictures, that sort of shows the lay of the land. The first was where the bird was when we first got there. I took a series of pictures as it looked like it might have continued to the right and gone out of sight behind a small hill. No sooner had put my camera down when in flew back towards the road where I got some more pictures These are two pictures taken while it went hunting across a small pond. http://myweb.dal.ca/pmkelly/GreatEgret1.jpg http://myweb.dal.ca/pmkelly/GreatEgret2.jpg http://myweb.dal.ca/pmkelly/GreatEgret3.jpg It is not all that often that I get a new life bird so close to home! Pat On Mar 9, 2008, at 12:06 PM, john belbin wrote: > I rushed out as soon as I saw Sherman's email this morning. The Great > Egret > has now moved and is feeding on the north side of the road. It stays > close > to the edges of the area bordering the stream but appears to be feeding > reasonably well. It goes to hide as soon as you take an obvious > interest in > it and with patchy snow it is surprising hard to find through a camera > viewfinder. You can park in the area next to the sewer pumping > station. I > walked a short distance onto the edge of the Haliburton orchards and > managed > to get several photos, However, they won't be wonderful because of the > rain, > wind and generally poor lighting this morning. The farmer came to talk > to me > and told me that the bird had been feeding for some time in the south > area > but had just moved across the road. He said that he sees them there > occasionally but never at this time of year. They usually show up > after a > hurricane or very major storm - maybe this one qualifies as a big > storm. If > so, keep your eyes open. > > John Belbin - > Hantsport > > ======================================================================== == Patrick Kelly Director of Computer Facilities ======================================================================== == Faculty of Architecture and Planning Dalhousie University ======================================================================== == PO Box 1000 Stn Central 5410 Spring Garden Road Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 Canada Canada ======================================================================== == Phone:(902) 494-3294 FAX:(902) 423-6672 E-mail:patrick.kelly@dal.ca ======================================================================== == --Apple-Mail-19--849082782 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=US-ASCII Hello everyone: I went to see the egret at 3:00 PM. It was back in the brook on the south side of the road. Twice I saw it stab at something and once it did a "swallowing" motion, so it must have gotten something! Here are three pictures, that sort of shows the lay of the land. The first was where the bird was when we first got there. I took a series of pictures as it looked like it might have continued to the right and gone out of sight behind a small hill. No sooner had put my camera down when in flew back towards the road where I got some more pictures These are two pictures taken while it went hunting across a small pond. http://myweb.dal.ca/pmkelly/GreatEgret1.jpg http://myweb.dal.ca/pmkelly/GreatEgret2.jpg http://myweb.dal.ca/pmkelly/GreatEgret3.jpg It is not all that often that I get a new life bird so close to home! Pat On Mar 9, 2008, at 12:06 PM, john belbin wrote: <excerpt>I rushed out as soon as I saw Sherman's email this morning. The Great Egret has now moved and is feeding on the north side of the road. It stays close to the edges of the area bordering the stream but appears to be feeding reasonably well. It goes to hide as soon as you take an obvious interest in it and with patchy snow it is surprising hard to find through a camera viewfinder. You can park in the area next to the sewer pumping station. I walked a short distance onto the edge of the Haliburton orchards and managed to get several photos, However, they won't be wonderful because of the rain, wind and generally poor lighting this morning. The farmer came to talk to me and told me that the bird had been feeding for some time in the south area but had just moved across the road. He said that he sees them there occasionally but never at this time of year. They usually show up after a hurricane or very major storm - maybe this one qualifies as a big storm. If so, keep your eyes open. John Belbin - Hantsport </excerpt><fontfamily><param>Courier</param> ========================================================================== Patrick Kelly Director of Computer Facilities ========================================================================== Faculty of Architecture and Planning Dalhousie University ========================================================================== PO Box 1000 Stn Central 5410 Spring Garden Road Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 Canada Canada ========================================================================== Phone:(902) 494-3294 FAX:(902) 423-6672 E-mail:patrick.kelly@dal.ca ========================================================================== </fontfamily> --Apple-Mail-19--849082782--
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