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--=====================_15987703==.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 17 Sept 2009 I walked the dog along the front gravel trail to Wagner's Beach, Prospect Peninsula, HRM, this morning, and encountered a few flocks of migrants, some of which flew in off the sea, landing in treed areas in the shrubby "high" barrens. Wagner's Beach, you ask? Here is the map: http://tinyurl.com/kuwydf There was a good variety of warblers, including 6 Myrtle, 3 (Eastern) Palm, 2 (Eastern) Nashville, 5 Blackpoll (including a male in partial late, quite unusual for so late in the season), 8 Common Yellowthroat, and a handsome male Black-throated Blue. At Wagner's Beach I noted that the thick beds of kelp deposited earlier this autumn by Hurricane Bill were breaking up, and there were but 5 immature Semipalmated Plover, but also my first two American Pipits for the autumn. It is always worth spending some time checking through the Semipalmated Plovers -- a Common Ringed Plover was found in Newfoundland a couple of days ago, and some excellent photos and ID discussion can be found here: http://www.surfbirds.com/cgi-bin/gallery/display.cgi?gallery=gallery10 Off the beach the usual mob of Black Ducks and Common Eider were notable by their absence, but this was likely due the large immature Bald Eagle sitting on the highest rock on Shad Bay Head. In all, a lovely morning's ramble. Good birding, Blake --=====================_15987703==.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html> <body> 17 Sept 2009<br><br> I walked the dog along the front gravel trail to Wagner's Beach, Prospect Peninsula, HRM, this morning, and encountered a few flocks of migrants, some of which flew in off the sea, landing in treed areas in the shrubby "high" barrens.<br><br> Wagner's Beach, you ask? Here is the map:<br><br> <b><a href="http://tinyurl.com/kuwydf" eudora="autourl"> http://tinyurl.com/kuwydf</a></b> <br><br> There was a good variety of warblers, including 6 Myrtle, 3 (Eastern) Palm, 2 (Eastern) Nashville, 5 Blackpoll (including a male in partial late, quite unusual for so late in the season), 8 Common Yellowthroat, and a handsome male Black-throated Blue. At Wagner's Beach I noted that the thick beds of kelp deposited earlier this autumn by Hurricane Bill were breaking up, and there were but 5 immature Semipalmated Plover, but also my first two American Pipits for the autumn.<br><br> It is always worth spending some time checking through the Semipalmated Plovers -- a Common Ringed Plover was found in Newfoundland a couple of days ago, and some excellent photos and ID discussion can be found here:<br><br> <a href="http://www.surfbirds.com/cgi-bin/gallery/display.cgi?gallery=gallery10" eudora="autourl"> http://www.surfbirds.com/cgi-bin/gallery/display.cgi?gallery=gallery10<br> <br> </a>Off the beach the usual mob of Black Ducks and Common Eider were notable by their absence, but this was likely due the large immature Bald Eagle sitting on the highest rock on Shad Bay Head.<br><br> In all, a lovely morning's ramble.<br><br> Good birding,<br><br> Blake<br> </body> </html> --=====================_15987703==.ALT--
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