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Index of Subjects At 02:04 PM 14/06/2009, Angus wrote: >Found another Willow Flycatcher...apparently not as rare as thought!! It was a perfect morning (June 14) for a breeding bird survey, and I did my annual Londonderry route. The highlight, at stop #3, north of East Montrose, was a singing Willow Flycatcher. Details are on the NS Rare Bird Alert if anyone is interested in this particular Willow Flycatcher -- there have been a number of reports this year. I haven't analysed all the data yet, but once again most species were in low numbers, with a few exceptions (lots of Red-eyed Vireos and Chestnut-sided Warblers, for example). The route is largely suburban and agricultural, so it was dismaying to encounter only 2 Barn Swallows and 4 Tree Swallows, where there would have been 10 times the number not so many years ago. And for the first time I had no House Sparrows. No Chimney Swifts. Few Common Yellowthroats. Few Yellow-rumped Warblers. And on and on. It is unwise to draw conclusions from just one survey, but I wouldn't be surprised if some aspects of this pattern were repeated. The scarcity of swallows, for example, has been mentioned by many on NatureNS. Cheers, Blake ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blake Maybank maybank@ns.sympatico.ca 902-852-2077 Editor, "Nova Scotia Birds" http://nsbs.chebucto.org author, "Birding Sites of Nova Scotia" http://maybank.tripod.com/BSNS.htm White's Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada
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