next message in archive
no next message in thread
previous message in archive
previous message in thread
Index of Subjects
Index of Subjects At 4:25 PM -0300 6/2/09, James W. Wolford wrote: >A small bunch of us did the Cape Split walk on Sunday, and all along >the trail we noticed the moving shadows at our feet -- I looked up a >few times to note blue-jay-sized birds in flocks of perhaps 10 or >so, all moving from east to west along the Cape. We didn't see >anything like that when we got to the tip of the Cape. > >Has anyone noticed movements of blue jays in the province or of >similar-sized birds -- I really don't know what kinds of birds were >moving but there were certainly multiple flocks during the morning. Jim, I think what you saw were BLUE JAYS [Geai bleu], because right now a lot of jays are on the move. I believe they are last year's young that went south into the USA for the winter. Here on the north side of Chignecto Bay this movement is noticeable every spring between roughly the second week of May and the second week of June. Size of the flight varies from year to year, perhaps in relation to the success of the previous breeding season. Small to large (100+/-) flocks stop to feed in my yard or just fly past, mostly heading east, out over Mary's Point towards Grindstone Island and Cape Maringouin. Once they reach the Isthmus of Chignecto, some might turn southwestward towards Cape Maringouin and the Annapolis Valley, while others continue east or northeast. At 8:30 a.m., on Friday, a flock of about 100 stopped and fed for 5-10 minutes in my yard before proceeding east. David -- David Christie Mary's Point, Harvey, Albert Co., New Brunswick, Canada http://www3.nbnet.nb.ca/maryspt
next message in archive
no next message in thread
previous message in archive
previous message in thread
Index of Subjects