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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_b8vEUavFFKfwMKP8D8bFSg) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Ken McKenna Box 218 Stellarton NS B0K 1S0 902 752-7644 Hi all A little exploring around Pictou Co. today produced a couple of new birds, but for the most part birding has been the same the last couple of weeks. At home this morning I had a single BOHEMIAN WAXWING in the yard, my first for the fall. At Haliburton Gut in Lyons Brook there were 200 Hooded Mergansers. In the afternoon a hundred or so Bonaparte's Gulls joined them. At Waterside Park, the Red-throated Loons have dissolved to 3 birds. The Great Blue Heron was in the same position as the last couple of weeks. I was wondering if it was a real bird, but it was not there on when I walked around behind it so it must have flushed out. Also at Waterside were 300 Canada Geese, 90 Common Goldeneye , 3 Myrtle Warblers and 150 Bonaparte's Gulls. I could not find any shorebirds on Caribou I. or Waterside. I had 2 Brown Creepers on the grounds of the Pictou Lodge. I seem to be encountering at least one every time I have been out this fall. Also every flock of Black-capped Chickadees has a few Golden-crowned Kinglets this fall and I feel the numbers are on the high side this fall in this area of Northern NS. There were a couple of Iceland Gulls at the Caribou lighthouse, Caribou ferry terminal, and at the Pictou Lodge. In Pictou, I observed a probable female WILSON'S WARBLER near the grounds of the Fisheries pool. It almost looked like a Yellow Warbler, but the chip note sounded like a Wilson's. I managed a poor photo. The BROWN THRASHER was in the same spot near McCulloch House, but it really did not want to show itself and I just had brief glimpse. There were 2 Double-crested Cormorants off Pier C. At Sinclair's I, Chance Harbour was hosting about 1000 Bonaparte's Gulls. For flowers, I still observed Mustard, Red Clover, White Sweet Clover and fall Dandelion in bloom mainly near the lighthouse at Caribou I. cheers Ken --Boundary_(ID_b8vEUavFFKfwMKP8D8bFSg) 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 8.00.6001.18852"> <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>A little exploring around Pictou Co. today produced a couple of new birds, but for the most part birding has been the same the last couple of weeks. At home this morning I had a single BOHEMIAN WAXWING in the yard, my first for the fall. At Haliburton Gut in Lyons Brook there were 200 Hooded Mergansers. In the afternoon a hundred or so Bonaparte's Gulls joined them. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>At Waterside Park, the Red-throated Loons have dissolved to 3 birds. The Great Blue Heron was in the same position as the last couple of weeks. I was wondering if it was a real bird, but it was not there on when I walked around behind it so it must have flushed out. Also at Waterside were 300 Canada Geese, 90 Common Goldeneye , 3 Myrtle Warblers and 150 Bonaparte's Gulls. I could not find any shorebirds on Caribou I. or Waterside. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> I had 2 Brown Creepers on the grounds of the Pictou Lodge. I seem to be encountering at least one every time I have been out this fall. Also every flock of Black-capped Chickadees has a few Golden-crowned Kinglets this fall and I feel the numbers are on the high side this fall in this area of Northern NS. There were a couple of Iceland Gulls at the Caribou lighthouse, Caribou ferry terminal, and at the Pictou Lodge. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>In Pictou, I observed a probable female WILSON'S WARBLER near the grounds of the Fisheries pool. It almost looked like a Yellow Warbler, but the chip note sounded like a Wilson's. I managed a poor photo. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>The BROWN THRASHER was in the same spot near McCulloch House, but it really did not want to show itself and I just had brief glimpse. There were 2 Double-crested Cormorants off Pier C. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>At Sinclair's I, Chance Harbour was hosting about 1000 Bonaparte's Gulls. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>For flowers, I still observed Mustard, Red Clover, White Sweet Clover and fall Dandelion in bloom mainly near the lighthouse at Caribou I. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>cheers</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Ken</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> --Boundary_(ID_b8vEUavFFKfwMKP8D8bFSg)--
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