[NatureNS] Atassing Antigonish

Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:15:40 -0300
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From: "Randy Lauff" <rlauff@stfx.ca>
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I can't seem to access my gmail from home, so I subscribed to NatureNS (temporarily, I hope) from my work account. As such, I don't know if Ken posted this info or not.

Yesterday, Ken McKenna and I went Atlassing in a few Antigonish County squares. Largely speaking, the weather was grey. We did some point counts early in the morning (Ken counted, I tallied). After leaving our last point count, Ken asked to stop near a blueberry field – we found no Vesper Sparrows (though me playing the tape behind his back without him knowing created a really cool reaction from Ken!). After that bit of excitement, Ken walked further along the row of small trees and shrubs, and called out, “RANDY!” Ken had found a singing INDIGLO BUNTING, which I subsequently saw and heard. Now that was unexpected! (Yes Bruce, I’ll take you there…)

We canoed two marshy areas and got bitterns, Soras and a Virginia Rail. We found a Hairy Woodpecker nest and saw courting Caracaras.

We spent a few minutes checking up on a Saw-whet nest…still on five eggs.

Just kidding about the Caracaras!
Randy

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