[NatureNS] Big Island

From: "Elizabeth Doull" <edoull@ns.sympatico.ca>
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Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 07:36:38 -0300
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Wednesday, August 6, 2008    Big Island
strong shifting NE/ NW winds
Liz Doull, Ann Doull

A really 'birdy' day for us... Beautiful day with clouds... perfect for 
photography and no camera with me!

3 Wilson's Petrels
1 Solitary Sandpiper
4 White rumped sandpiper
no sign of Whimbrels
dowitchers
least sandpipers
semipalmated sandpipers
semipalmated plovers
ruddy Turnstones
black bellied plovers

30 + Surf Scoters
3 Black Scoters
20+? White winged Scoters
Northern Gannets, mostly adult   50+ ?

1 possible Tennessee warbler?
1 possible Golden crowned kinglet
Black capped chickadee family
3 Parula
Magnolia family
Yellow Warbler family
American Redstart family
N. Flicker family
Alder flycatcher
lots of Cedar waxwings and young
Oddly no yellow rumped warblers or juncos

25 + Great Blue Herons
Common Terns
Bonaparte Gulls, mostly hooded
Double Crested Cormorants
Green winged teal family

The exciting and rare moment was watching one adult Gannet flying up close 
up to the highway and lighting on a rock,  at least10 metres away from my 
car!  A few minutes later, an adult bald eagle was looking for a meal so the 
diving bird was not giving himself to him so it headed for the sea for 
safety.

Cheers, liz


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