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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_M8a8eNErHy9ut9RUO/Xe0Q) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Ken McKenna Box 218 Stellarton NS B0K 1S0 902 752-7644 Hi all Bob Whitman and I spent some time early this morning in his Sheepherders Junction Atlas square (20NR12), south of Landsdowne, Pictou Co. Just after dawn, we were checking a blueberry field unsuccessfully for Vesper Sparrow and clearly heard a distant Black-billed Cuckoo calling from an island of trees in a regenerating cutover. This is my first Cuckoo this year for the breeding bird atlas. Later in the morning we had a Solitary Sandpiper in a small new wet-area.- drying trees in standing water. I assume for now it is a returning northerly nester rather than local nesting bird. We had six Tennessee Warblers singing -4 within a km of each other. Nice to find a small Bank Swallow colony in a quarry- only 10 nests but still nice for a bird that seems to be in decline. We had 3 pair of Canada Warblers , and Olive-sided Flycatcher in one location. Again I had a couple of enconters with flying White-winged Crossbills. For the last 3 weeks I have had WW Crossbills in at least 8 squares. The breeding evidence is a little hard to determine. A few seem to be singing, but a lot just calling. It is now prime time for atlassing especally early in the morning. --Boundary_(ID_M8a8eNErHy9ut9RUO/Xe0Q) 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 6.00.6000.16674" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ken McKenna<BR>Box 218 Stellarton NS<BR>B0K 1S0<BR>902 752-7644<BR>Hi all</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Bob Whitman and I spent some time early this morning in his Sheepherders Junction Atlas square (20NR12), south of Landsdowne, Pictou Co. Just after dawn, we were checking a blueberry field unsuccessfully for Vesper Sparrow and clearly heard a distant Black-billed Cuckoo calling from an island of trees in a regenerating cutover. This is my first Cuckoo this year for the breeding bird atlas.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Later in the morning we had a Solitary Sandpiper in a small new wet-area.- drying trees in standing water. I assume for now it is a returning northerly nester rather than local nesting bird. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We had six Tennessee Warblers singing -4 within a km of each other. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Nice to find a small Bank Swallow colony in a quarry- only 10 nests but still nice for a bird that seems to be in decline.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We had 3 pair of Canada Warblers , and Olive-sided Flycatcher in one location. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Again I had a couple of enconters with flying White-winged Crossbills. For the last 3 weeks I have had WW Crossbills in at least 8 squares. The breeding evidence is a little hard to determine. A few seem to be singing, but a lot just calling. It is now prime time for atlassing especally early in the morning. </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> --Boundary_(ID_M8a8eNErHy9ut9RUO/Xe0Q)--
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