[NatureNS] Wolfville shorebirds + house sparrow feeding young

Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 18:09:30 -0300
From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
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An hour before high tide in Wolfville Harbour, the roosting  
SHOREBIRDS along the shore below the railroad tracks included about  
35 YELLOWLEGS, which were nearly all GREATERS with 2+ LESSERS, I  
think, plus 3 WILLETS, and just 2 unidentified PEEPS.

Also present were numerous noisy HOUSE SPARROWS, including a female  
that was feeding a begging new FLEDGLING -- a late useful ATLAS  
RECORD for the Wolfville square -- and about 25 ROCK PIGEONS on the  
tracks-side building roof.  Someone provides cracked corn for the  
pigeons in the wharf park on a flat rock.

Cheers from Jim in Wolfville

Jim (James W.) Wolford
91 Wickwire Ave.
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada
B4P 1W3

phone 902-542-9204
e-mail <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>

"In wildness is the preservation of the world" -- Henry David Thoreau
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn  
from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent  
disinclination to do so.
     ~ Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See"
[from Ecology Action Centre]
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Humans aren't the only species on the earth - we just act like it.
[from Linda Lusby]
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before high tide in <b>Wolfville Harbour, the roosting SHOREBIRDS</b> =
along the shore below the railroad tracks included about 35 =
<b>YELLOWLEGS</b>, which were nearly all <b>GREATERS</b> with 2+ =
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SPARROWS</b>, including a female that was<b> feeding a begging new =
FLEDGLING </b>-- a late useful <b>ATLAS RECORD</b> for the Wolfville =
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