[NatureNS] Re: Cranefly Hatch?

Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:59:08 -0300
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Hi All;

On Friday Martine and I were exploring birding sites along the length 
of East Point, in PEI, and we noted several thousand gulls hawking 
insects above the farmfields along the length of the highway between 
Souris and East Point.   Most of the gulls were Herring and 
Ring-billed, but there were small numbers of Great Black-backed Gulls 
mixed in as well.   I guessed that Crane Flies were the object of the 
gulls' attention.

No Bonaparte's Gulls were in evidence in this feeding melee, despite 
being numerous along the coast of eastern PEI --  I noted thousands 
of Bonaparte's Gulls in the estuaries and mud-flats of the island. 
And during our two ferry crossings I could see a steady stream of 
these gulls flying back and forth across the Northumberland Strait 
between Nova Scotia and PEI.

Explore and enjoy,


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Blake Maybank
maybank@ns.sympatico.ca

Editor, "Nova Scotia Birds"

author, "Birding Sites of Nova Scotia"
http://maybank.tripod.com/BSNS.htm

White's Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada 

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