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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_0Ha+uKv1mQkaehZqAZoigg) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Hi to all, My first bird on count day morning at Portuguese Cove was an American Robin, singing brightly at 4:50AM. It was soon joined in chorus by several others of its own species, followed by Song Sparrows and White-throated Sparrows. I took a circuitous route to Trafalgar and down to Sheet Harbour and over to Clam Harbour in hopes of ticking the magpie species, but no luck. If the bird remains it will be hard to find since the centre of the peninsula is all forest. On the positive side Black-billed Magpies tend to open country and love farm yards, and will soon become quite domiciled and tame if it finds a farm to its liking. South of Trafalgar there is a massive colony of Ruby-crowned Kinglets. Every time I stopped I heard two to three singing. I counted 60 but I could easily have counted hundreds if I wished to stop enough times. Except for a little misting in the early morning I encountered no rain at all until my return to Portuguese Cove near noon. That's when the serious wind and rain began and it hasn't stopped yet. After an afternoon repose Laura and I ventured out to count the usual hundreds of gulls in the Sambro area. White-crowned Sparrows feeding on the kelp heaps at Sandy Cove, HRM, were a nice surprise. Our feeders hosted the usual bunches of sparrow and finches, including three White-crowned Sparrows and one female Rose-breasted Grosbeak. My best bird of the day was a Northern Waterthrush singing its heart out just south of Trafalgar. Hans _________________________________ Hans Toom Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada Website: http://hanstoom.com Pbase: http://pbase.com/snahmoot _________________________________ --Boundary_(ID_0Ha+uKv1mQkaehZqAZoigg) Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16640" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi to all,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My first bird on count day morning at Portuguese Cove was an <STRONG>American Robin</STRONG>, singing brightly at 4:50AM. It was soon joined in chorus by several others of its own species, followed by <STRONG>Song</STRONG> <STRONG>Sparrows</STRONG> and <STRONG>White-throated Sparrows</STRONG>.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I took a circuitous route to Trafalgar and down to Sheet Harbour and over to Clam Harbour in hopes of ticking the magpie species, but no luck. If the bird remains it will be hard to find since the centre of the peninsula is all forest. On the positive side <STRONG>Black-billed Magpies</STRONG> tend to open country and love farm yards, and will soon become quite domiciled and tame if it finds a farm to its liking.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>South of Trafalgar there is a massive colony of <STRONG>Ruby-crowned Kinglets</STRONG>. Every time I stopped I heard two to three singing. I counted 60 but I could easily have counted hundreds if I wished to stop enough times.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Except for a little misting in the early morning I encountered no rain at all until my return to Portuguese Cove near noon. That's when the serious wind and rain began and it hasn't stopped yet.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>After an afternoon repose Laura and I ventured out to count the usual hundreds of gulls in the Sambro area. <STRONG>White-crowned Sparrows</STRONG> feeding on the kelp heaps at Sandy Cove, <EM>HRM,</EM> were a nice surprise.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Our feeders hosted the usual bunches of sparrow and finches, including three White-crowned Sparrows and one female <STRONG>Rose-breasted Grosbeak</STRONG>.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>My best bird of the day was a <STRONG>Northern Waterthrush</STRONG> singing its heart out just south of Trafalgar.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hans</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>_________________________________<BR>Hans Toom<BR>Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR>Website: <A href="http://hanstoom.com">http://hanstoom.com</A> <BR>Pbase: <A href="http://pbase.com/snahmoot">http://pbase.com/snahmoot</A><BR>_________________________________</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> --Boundary_(ID_0Ha+uKv1mQkaehZqAZoigg)--
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