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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_+l/5xsiJltikbr+yox/eUw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Ken McKenna Box 218 Stellarton NS B0K 1S0 902 752-7644 Hi all Rick Ferguson and I birded Big I. on a warm (18C) Sunday, Nov. 15 We noted a couple of Wooly Bear catepillars, a couple of Peepers calling and although we were not really looking at the flowers, we noted Red Clover, White Sweet Clover, Mustard and Aster Sp. still in bloom. We saw a total of 42 species of birds. Here are some highlights: an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, with 3 Yellow-rumped Warblers in the spruce-bayberry opposite Harmony Lane; 28 HORNED GREBES, 5 Red-throated Loons, 5 DUNLIN, 2 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, 1 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, AND 2 SANDERLINGS; 1 GREAT CORMORANT, 25 SNOW BUNTINGS, 9 CEDAR WARWING, 1 BROWN CREEPER, and 18 GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET. A nice find was a dark phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK over the salt-marsh that inspected the marsh briefly and then moved onto the mainland. There was also an imm. Northern Harrier and an imm. Red-tailed Hawk. We saw only one Gannet, a first winter, over the water, but there was also a dead one on the beach. In the late afternoon I heard a Toad trilling from my flower bed- at least that is what it sounded like! At Chance Harbour in the late afternoon, I noted 900 BONAPARTE'S GULLS and a flock of 600 RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS fly by the rocks near the wharf. Another nice find in that same area was a RAZORBILL diving about 200m off the rocks near the Chance Harbour Wharf -not a commonly found Pictou Co. bird. cheers ken --Boundary_(ID_+l/5xsiJltikbr+yox/eUw) Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 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 8.00.6001.18852"> <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></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hi all</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Rick Ferguson and I birded Big I. on a warm (18C) Sunday, Nov. 15 We noted a couple of Wooly Bear catepillars, a couple of Peepers calling and although we were not really looking at the flowers, we noted Red Clover, White Sweet Clover, Mustard and Aster Sp. still in bloom. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>We saw a total of 42 species of birds. Here are some highlights: an ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER, with 3 Yellow-rumped Warblers in the spruce-bayberry opposite Harmony Lane; 28 HORNED GREBES, 5 Red-throated Loons, 5 DUNLIN, 2 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, 1 GREATER YELLOWLEGS, AND 2 SANDERLINGS; 1 GREAT CORMORANT, 25 SNOW BUNTINGS, 9 CEDAR WARWING, 1 BROWN CREEPER, and 18 GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLET.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>A nice find was a dark phase ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK over the salt-marsh that inspected the marsh briefly and then moved onto the mainland. There was also an imm. Northern Harrier and an imm. Red-tailed Hawk. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>We saw only one Gannet, a first winter, over the water, but there was also a dead one on the beach. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>In the late afternoon I heard a Toad trilling from my flower bed- at least that is what it sounded like!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>At Chance Harbour in the late afternoon, I noted 900 BONAPARTE'S GULLS and a flock of 600 RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS fly by the rocks near the wharf. Another nice find in that same area was a RAZORBILL diving about 200m off the rocks near the Chance Harbour Wharf -not a commonly found Pictou Co. bird.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> cheers</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>ken</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> --Boundary_(ID_+l/5xsiJltikbr+yox/eUw)--
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