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Index of Subjects Hi James, Sounds like a very good weekend on Brier, considering the adverse weather. Ian McLaren and I went up on Sunday to be there through the storm, and although we tried hard we detected no storm-strayed birds, barring perhaps a distant (Parasitic) Jaeger, there or anywhere else in SW Nova Scotia, today. We did find a Piping Plover immature and a Hudsonian Godwit with the other waders in Pond Cove, though. I have some serious doubts about your Gyrfalcon. Peregrines can vary a lot in size and colour, and they have a longer tail relative to body than do Gyrfalcons. Gyrs actually have very broad wings and short tails relative to body, giving them at times a Goshawk-like look. The long tail that you mention almost certainly precludes Gyr. I might mention that there was a very large dark Peregrine that hung around the Western Light all last fall and that I almost called a Gyr myself. The same bird? Who knows. Might mention too that the Shoveller in Freeport is an eclipse male - as indicated by head colour and pattern. It is likely the same bird that has been there, in and out of its breeding plumage, since early last year. I'm very late in thanking you for the heads-up on that Curlew Sandpiper in Rose Bay early in the month. As I'm sure you learned from Anne, we were far away in Alaska at that time, doing our best to dig small, obscure Asian vagrants out of impenetrable vegetation on St Lawrence Island and the Pribilofs. Do keep me in touch with what you find - and if I ever find any rarities again, I'll reciprocate. All the best, EricZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Eric L. Mills 286 Kingsburg Road RR#1, Rose Bay, Nova Scotia B0J 2X0, CANADA E.Mills@Dal.Ca ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
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