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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_IFuBu6E2Ksb2EfSUhBWU8Q) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Ken McKenna Box 218 Stellarton NS B0K 1S0 902 752-7644 Hi all Early yesterday morning I went to the Browns Mtn. square (20NR65) and got a few early morning birds such as Great Horned and Barred Owl. The last Woodcock of the morning seemed to stop beeping about 5:20 a.m. Jeannie McGee and I did some atlassing mostly in the Lincolnville (20PR14) priority square yesterday. Was fully intending to go further east to Hadleyville but when we hit fog we stopped and stayed where there was no fog. The area we explored alive with Winter Wrens fighting over territories. Other species in numbers were Hermit Thrush and Palm Warblers which were more numerous than Myrtles. There is a lot of boggy areas in this square and Palm Warbler is a common nester. Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers were very vocal and were also numerous. Many Tree Swallows were investigating their favouite nesting sites. In this square it is in back of the street lights. I don't really see this behaviour in Pictou Co., but it is common in Guysborough Co. We walked a partially grown-over logging road and were successful in hearing a RUSTY BLACKBIRD in a shrubby wetland. Jeannie noted a Red-tail Hawk near this and a search of the hardwood produced two old unoccupied nests, but we could not locate this years nest. Where is Bernard Forsythe when you need him! On the way back home ( the long way) in the Middle Milford area ( Highway 344) we stopped at a roadside cattail marsh and had a response from a VIRGINIA RAIL , - I think this is a first record for this species in the SW Cape Breton region of the current atlas. The marsh also had An AMERICAN BITTERN calling. In the Lincolnville area especially around Five Mile Lake, MAYFLOWERS were in high bloom. There were still a lot of COLTSFOOT in bloom and we found a small patch of SPRING BEAUTIES in bloom in an area exposed by a strip cut-over. DWARF GINSENG in the same area of the cut-over was almost in bloom. Another day or two will likely bring out the flowers buds to full blossom. I checked for Chimney Swifts again last night ( May 3) at the Temperance St. School in New Glasgow, but no sign of any from 19:55- 20:20. In the Plymouth area, the Peepers were joined by AMERICAN TOADS thrilling last night. cheers Ken --Boundary_(ID_IFuBu6E2Ksb2EfSUhBWU8Q) Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16825" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ken McKenna<BR>Box 218 Stellarton NS<BR>B0K 1S0<BR>902 752-7644<BR>Hi all</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Early yesterday morning I went to the Browns Mtn. square (20NR65) and got a few early morning birds such as Great Horned and Barred Owl. The last Woodcock of the morning seemed to stop beeping about 5:20 a.m. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Jeannie McGee and I did some atlassing mostly in the Lincolnville (20PR14) priority square yesterday. Was fully intending to go further east to Hadleyville but when we hit fog we stopped and stayed where there was no fog. The area we explored alive with Winter Wrens fighting over territories. Other species in numbers were Hermit Thrush and Palm Warblers which were more numerous than Myrtles. There is a lot of boggy areas in this square and Palm Warbler is a common nester. Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers were very vocal and were also numerous. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> Many Tree Swallows were investigating their favouite nesting sites. In this square it is in back of the street lights. I don't really see this behaviour in Pictou Co., but it is common in Guysborough Co. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> We walked a partially grown-over logging road and were successful in hearing a RUSTY BLACKBIRD in a shrubby wetland. Jeannie noted a Red-tail Hawk near this and a search of the hardwood produced two old unoccupied nests, but we could not locate this years nest. Where is Bernard Forsythe when you need him!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On the way back home ( the long way) in the Middle Milford area ( Highway 344) we stopped at a roadside cattail marsh and had a response from a VIRGINIA RAIL , - I think this is a first record for this species in the SW Cape Breton region of the current atlas. The marsh also had An AMERICAN BITTERN calling. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In the Lincolnville area especially around Five Mile Lake, MAYFLOWERS were in high bloom. There were still a lot of COLTSFOOT in bloom and we found a small patch of SPRING BEAUTIES in bloom in an area exposed by a strip cut-over. DWARF GINSENG in the same area of the cut-over was almost in bloom. Another day or two will likely bring out the flowers buds to full blossom. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I checked for Chimney Swifts again last night ( May 3) at the Temperance St. School in New Glasgow, but no sign of any from 19:55- 20:20. In the Plymouth area, the Peepers were joined by AMERICAN TOADS thrilling last night. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>cheers</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Ken</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML> --Boundary_(ID_IFuBu6E2Ksb2EfSUhBWU8Q)--
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