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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_kJMYDXtfHJbKPc0mLfRDIA) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Ken McKenna Box 218 Stellarton NS B0K 1S0 902 752-7644 Hi all Mon. Oct. 19 was a day of strong NE winds so I headed out to Big I. at noon hoping the weather would clear a bit as the wind was to switch around to the North. It was still drizzling and NE 50 Km/h winds when I arived. Along the causeway, I encountered 2 Storm Petrels heading east. I had a reasonable look at the first and felt it was a Wilson's with squarish tail, white rump and roundish wings and petering on the water. The second, I did not get a great look at before it disappeared. Other species of note were 6 Lapland Longspur, 3 American Pipit, and 1 Horned Lark. Shorebirds observed on the high tide: Dunlin-36, Sanderling-12, White-rumped Sandpiper-13, Semipalmated Plover-9, Black-bellied Plover-1, Greater Yellowlegs-2, Pectoral Sandpiper-3 There were 465 Canada Geese and 250 Bonaparte's Gulls. As I was leaving the island about 6 p.m. and doing a final look through some teal and Black Ducks, I noticed that a Petrel was sitting on the water on the inner channel. It made a bit of an attempt to fly when an eagle passed over, but seemed content to sit on the water probably as a rest from the wind. It was still there when I left. cheers Ken --Boundary_(ID_kJMYDXtfHJbKPc0mLfRDIA) Content-type: text/html; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.18828"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Ken McKenna<BR>Box 218 Stellarton NS<BR>B0K 1S0<BR>902 752-7644<BR>Hi all</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Mon. Oct. 19 was a day of strong NE winds so I headed out to Big I. at noon hoping the weather would clear a bit as the wind was to switch around to the North. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>It was still drizzling and NE 50 Km/h winds when I arived. Along the causeway, I encountered 2 Storm Petrels heading east. I had a reasonable look at the first and felt it was a Wilson's with squarish tail, white rump and roundish wings and petering on the water. The second, I did not get a great look at before it disappeared. Other species of note were 6 Lapland Longspur, 3 American Pipit, and 1 Horned Lark. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Shorebirds observed on the high tide: Dunlin-36, Sanderling-12, White-rumped Sandpiper-13, Semipalmated Plover-9, Black-bellied Plover-1, Greater Yellowlegs-2, Pectoral Sandpiper-3</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>There were 465 Canada Geese and 250 Bonaparte's Gulls. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>As I was leaving the island about 6 p.m. and doing a final look through some teal and Black Ducks, I noticed that a Petrel was sitting on the water on the inner channel. It made a bit of an attempt to fly when an eagle passed over, but seemed content to sit on the water probably as a rest from the wind. It was still there when I left.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>cheers</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Ken</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> --Boundary_(ID_kJMYDXtfHJbKPc0mLfRDIA)--
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