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--Apple-Mail-180--589278242 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Hi everyone: Altassing is a lot more fun when you come across the expected/unexpected. Wayne Neily was going to do point counts it the Panuke Lake square. As it is adjacent to the Vaughan square that I was doing, I asked him to let me know what he saw at the points that were on the west side of the lake (accessible from the Vaughan square) and that I would try to follow them up to see if any species could be moved up to territorial. One species he did report was a rusty blackbird, in a marsh across from a small granite quarry. I got there late Sunday morning, and having never seen a rusty blackbird, and knowing how fickle birds can be, I did was not actually expecting to see one. Yet there it was! There was one singing (chirping followed by a two-note whistle) repeateldly from the top of one of the dead trees in the marsh across from the quarry. I didn't realise until I went back to the car to confirm the song with my Stokes that the "chiripng" was, in fact, part of the song. I had a nice view in binoculars and was able to easily see the colour in the eye. When I tried to get a better view a second one (?) flushed up from an area in the middle of the marsh and flew off into the woods. I didn't get a chance to confirm that it was another rusty, but that was my impression. It was not a grackle, as it flew directly away from me, and I did get a good look at its tail, and it showed no epaulettes. I did get a lot of pictures, of which two are not too bad. The first shows the colour in the eye, the second shows the shape of the tail. http://myweb.dal.ca/pmkelly/Rusty1.jpg http://myweb.dal.ca/pmkelly/Rusty2.jpg I plan on going back really early one day this week, and hopefully will have enough time to see what they are up to. Pat ======================================================================== == 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-180--589278242 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/enriched; charset=US-ASCII Hi everyone: Altassing is a lot more fun when you come across the expected/unexpected. Wayne Neily was going to do point counts it the Panuke Lake square. As it is adjacent to the Vaughan square that I was doing, I asked him to let me know what he saw at the points that were on the west side of the lake (accessible from the Vaughan square) and that I would try to follow them up to see if any species could be moved up to territorial. One species he did report was a rusty blackbird, in a marsh across from a small granite quarry. I got there late Sunday morning, and having never seen a rusty blackbird, and knowing how fickle birds can be, I did was not actually expecting to see one. Yet there it was! There was one singing (chirping followed by a two-note whistle) repeateldly from the top of one of the dead trees in the marsh across from the quarry. I didn't realise until I went back to the car to confirm the song with my Stokes that the "chiripng" was, in fact, part of the song. I had a nice view in binoculars and was able to easily see the colour in the eye. When I tried to get a better view a second one (?) flushed up from an area in the middle of the marsh and flew off into the woods. I didn't get a chance to confirm that it was another rusty, but that was my impression. It was not a grackle, as it flew directly away from me, and I did get a good look at its tail, and it showed no epaulettes. I did get a lot of pictures, of which two are not too bad. The first shows the colour in the eye, the second shows the shape of the tail. http://myweb.dal.ca/pmkelly/Rusty1.jpg http://myweb.dal.ca/pmkelly/Rusty2.jpg I plan on going back really early one day this week, and hopefully will have enough time to see what they are up to. Pat <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-180--589278242--
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