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--Boundary_(ID_d+DKANT/AxmvMjdHbCF+yA) Content-type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable > Subject: white red-tail at Hortonville, now nearly 10 winters > > > DEC. 7, 2009 - Via just dumb luck, I stumbled onto two early =20 > records for that NEARLY-ALL-WHITE RED-TAILED HAWK at Hortonville. =20 > I found an old issue of the Blomidon Nat. Soc.'s newsletter for =20 > Spring 2002 lying around at home, and inside it, in Mike McCall's =20 > column on King's County seasonal birds, was my own sighting on Feb. =20= > 26, 2002. Later in the same day Pat Hawes also saw presumably the =20 > same bird in the same area. And, a year earlier, on Feb. 12, 2001, =20= > Brian Starzomski and Ian Paterson and 2 others saw almost =20 > certainly the very same bird in the same area, noting the dark =20 > feathers on the head (top back of head) and the reddish colour of =20 > the top of the tail (tail colour like a normal adult red-tail). =20 > The tail was still quite reddish in 2002, but since then it has =20 > faded greatly and now shows only a hint of its former redness =20 > (although I recall seeing once in flight that the central tail =20 > feathers were reddish while the peripheral ones were whitish, I =20 > think). I calculate, then, that by Spring 2010 this bird will have =20= > been here for 10 consecutive winters. Now we need someone to check =20= > on and report how many winters that similar bird in Sheffield Mills =20= > lasted decades ago? That bird was much more difficult to observe =20 > and approach, so that identifying details were probably never =20 > noted, but, like the current hawk, it looked all white at any =20 > distance. However, as with the 2001-2009 bird, the eyes were dark =20 > and cere and legs/feet were yellow. > > Here are the actual entries in the two newsletters: > > - NOVA SCOTIA BIRDS, Spring 2001 issue (journal of N.S. Bird =20 > Society) states: > > =93On Feb. 12 [2001], Meg Krawchuk, Ian Paterson, Brian Starzomski, =20= > and Kim > Woody spent a good deal of time looking at a PARTIALLY ALBINO/=20 > LEUCISTIC > RED-TAIL[ED HAWK] near the Hortonville exit, Highway 101, Kings =20 > Co.; the > majority (~90%) of the bird was white, with several dark brown =20 > feathers > present on the head and the tail retained much of its red pigment.=94 > > - from my own personal journal: > > Feb. 26, 2002 - At 2 p.m. I was driving east on Highway 101 at =20 > Hortonville > and was stopped short by the sighting of a large, brilliantly white =20= > bird > perched in a few trees 150 metres south of the highway. I =91scoped =20= > it, and > it was a NEARLY-ALL-WHITE ADULT RED-TAILED HAWK, with a beautiful =20 > normal bright reddish tail (possibly the outer tail feathers were =20 > white??). Its > body and head were very =93Tide=94 white, except the back of the head =20= > was dark > grayish or blackish and the leading edge of the folded left wing was > blackish (very thin line showing)(right wing not visible). The =20 > location was > about 200 metres west of the Gaspereau River where it crosses Hwy. =20 > 101. > > Later in the day, perhaps 5 p.m., Pat Martin [Pat Hawes] saw =20 > presumably the same hawk perched in a tree on the north side of =20 > Hwy. 101 at Hortonville. She had no > binoculars, and the bird was facing her -- she thought she could =20 > see some > gray patches perhaps. (In my sighting the hawk was facing partly =20 > away from > me, so that its underparts were mostly not visible.) > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville > > > --Boundary_(ID_d+DKANT/AxmvMjdHbCF+yA) Content-type: text/html; charset=WINDOWS-1252 Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><br></div><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>white red-tail at Hortonville, now = nearly 10 winters</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: = 14px; "><br></div> <div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica"><b>DEC. 7, 2009</b> - Via just dumb luck, I stumbled = onto two early records for that <b>NEARLY-ALL-WHITE RED-TAILED HAWK at = Hortonville</b>. I found an old issue of the Blomidon Nat. Soc.'s = newsletter for Spring 2002 lying around at home, and inside it, in Mike = McCall's column on King's County seasonal birds, was my own sighting on = Feb. 26, 2002. Later in the same day Pat Hawes also saw presumably = the same bird in the same area. And, a year earlier, on Feb. 12, = 2001, Brian Starzomski and Ian Paterson and 2 others saw almost = certainly the very same bird in the same area, noting the <b>dark = feathers on the head (top back of head) </b>and the reddish colour of = the top of the tail (<b>tail colour </b>like a normal adult = red-tail). The tail was still quite reddish in 2002, but since = then it has faded greatly and now shows only a hint of its former = redness (although I recall seeing once in flight that the central tail = feathers were reddish while the peripheral ones were whitish, I = think). I calculate, then, that by Spring 2010 this bird will have = been here for 10 consecutive winters. Now we need someone to check = on and report how many winters that similar bird in Sheffield Mills = lasted decades ago? That bird was much more difficult to observe = and approach, so that identifying details were probably never noted, = but, like the current hawk, it looked all white at any distance. = However, as with the 2001-2009 bird, the eyes were dark and cere and = legs/feet were yellow.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">Here are the actual entries in the two = newsletters: </font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">- </font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#001cd5" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #001cd5">NOVA = SCOTIA BIRDS, Spring 2001 issue (journal of N.S. Bird Society) = states:</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; color: rgb(0, 28, 213); min-height: 14px; = "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#001cd5" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #001cd5">=93On </font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Feb. 12 [2001]</b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#001cd5" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #001cd5">, Meg Krawchuk, Ian Paterson, Brian Starzomski, and = Kim</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#001cd5" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #001cd5">Woody spent a good deal of time looking at a </font><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica"><b>PARTIALLY ALBINO/LEUCISTIC</b></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica"><b>RED-TAIL[ED HAWK</b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#001cd5" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #001cd5">] near the Hortonville exit, Highway 101, Kings Co.; = the</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#001cd5" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #001cd5">majority (~90%) of the bird was white, with several dark brown = feathers</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#001cd5" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #001cd5">present on the head and the tail retained much of its red = pigment.=94</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">- from my own personal journal:</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Feb. = 26, 2002</b> - At 2 p.m. I was driving east on Highway 101 at = Hortonville</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">and was stopped short by the = sighting of a large, brilliantly white bird</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">perched in a few trees 150 metres south of the = highway. I =91scoped it, and</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">it was a = <b>NEARLY-ALL-WHITE ADULT RED-TAILED HAWK</b>, with a beautiful normal = bright reddish tail (possibly the outer tail feathers were = white??). Its</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">body and = head were very =93Tide=94 white, except the back of the head was = dark</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">grayish or blackish and the = leading edge of the folded left wing was</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">blackish (very thin line showing)(right wing not = visible). The location was</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">about 200 = metres west of the Gaspereau River where it crosses Hwy. = 101.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">Later in the day, perhaps 5 p.m., Pat Martin [Pat = Hawes] saw presumably the same hawk perched in a tree on the north side = of Hwy. 101 at Hortonville. She had no</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">binoculars, and the bird was facing her -- she thought = she could see some</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">gray = patches perhaps. (In my sighting the hawk was facing partly away = from</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">me, so that its underparts = were mostly not visible.)</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><b><br></b></div><div><br></div> = </blockquote></div><br></body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_d+DKANT/AxmvMjdHbCF+yA)--
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