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Index of Subjects This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00F9_01C90942.103637D0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thursday, August 28, 2008 I had to postpone my plans to tomorrow (due to weather) so I decided to = go back to Hartlen Point to see what 's new. Hundreds of shore birds = showed up, really hungry and voraciously feeding on the seedweeds. They = were oblivious to my presence, only 5 metres away from them. As well, I = noticed that some semipalmated sandpipers were courting by cocking its = tail upward and lowering its wings?? and dancing a bit?? One made an = attempt on one female. No graphic stuff here, thank you. A few were = snapping at some white rumps, while others were fighting with each other = over food? Spent three hours studying them. =20 As for the dunlin/ curlew sandpiper, the shorebird looked like a red = knot (plumpy and plain looking) but with a long, droopy thick beak. = Maybe someone would go to the Hartlen Point and investigate? Birds I = saw were: 1 Baird's sandpiper 1 Pectoral sandpiper 1 Dunlin (or could it be Curlew Sandpiper??) 6 Sanderlings 50 + White rumped sandpiper 40+ Ruddy Turnstones 10 + Lesser Yellowlegs few Greater Yellowlegs 150 Semipalmated sandpipers (small to plump) 75 + Semipalmated plovers 15 Least sandpipers 15 Short billed dowitchers few Black bellied plovers No dowitchers or willets And there were 3 White rumped sandpipers amid 100+ semipalmated plovers = at McCormack Beach. And there was a pied billed grebe at Bissett Lake.=20 Cheers, liz ------=_NextPart_000_00F9_01C90942.103637D0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16705" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>Thursday, August 28, 2008</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>I had to postpone my plans to tomorrow (due to = weather)=20 so I decided to go back to Hartlen Point to see what 's = new. =20 Hundreds of shore birds showed up, really hungry and = voraciously=20 feeding on the seedweeds. They were oblivious to my presence, only = 5 metres=20 away from them. As well, I noticed that some semipalmated = sandpipers were=20 courting by cocking its tail upward and lowering its wings?? and = dancing a=20 bit?? One made an attempt on one female. No graphic stuff here, = thank you.=20 A few were snapping at some white rumps, while others were = fighting with=20 each other over food? Spent three hours studying = them. =20 </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>As for the dunlin/ curlew sandpiper, the = shorebird looked=20 like a red knot (plumpy and plain looking) but with a long, droopy = thick=20 beak. Maybe someone would go to the Hartlen Point and=20 investigate? Birds I saw were:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>1 Baird's sandpiper</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>1 Pectoral sandpiper</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>1 Dunlin (or could it be Curlew = Sandpiper??)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>6 Sanderlings</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>50 + White rumped sandpiper</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>40+ Ruddy Turnstones</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>10 + Lesser Yellowlegs</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>few Greater Yellowlegs</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>150 Semipalmated sandpipers (small to = plump)</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>75 + Semipalmated plovers</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>15 Least sandpipers</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>15 Short billed dowitchers</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>few Black bellied plovers</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>No dowitchers or willets</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>And there were 3 White rumped sandpipers amid = 100+=20 semipalmated plovers at McCormack Beach. And t</FONT><FONT = face=3DArial>here=20 was a pied billed grebe at Bissett Lake. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>Cheers, liz</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_00F9_01C90942.103637D0--
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