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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_X7uFGDkktg1Oc87Km6a6lA) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Ken McKenna Box 218 Stellarton NS B0K 1S0 902 752-7644 Hi all Seeing the banded Royal Tern and Leaches Storm Petrels late Sat. after the eye of Earl passed through Big I., I felt there might be more storm blown birds around Pictou Co. On Sunday, the tide was a bit high in the early morning at Big I. so Rick Ferguson and I started our day at Waterside PP and Caribou I. actually closer to the path of the hurricane. There were none of the rarities seen in HRM, Lun.Shelburne and Queens counties. About the only somewhat out of season birds were about 8 swallows. Four of those seen close enough were Barn Swallows. I had brief looks at 2 with buff rumps, but not enough detail to tell if Cliff or Cave. Among the birds at Waterside were 200 Bonaparte's Gulls and 8 species of shorebird. At the Lighthouse bar at the tip of Caribou I., there were 75 Terns. As far as I could tell they were Common Terns and not all that unusual for that locale this time of year. There were 270 Bonaparte's Gulls at the point and more out over the Strait. A single Barn Swallow and 7 species of shorebird were present here as well. We then headed to Big I. as the tide was falling about 12:30. Alas, not a lot of storm strays. With quite a bit of searching we found a single Leaches Storm Petrel but no sign of the banded Royal Tern although there were still 20 Common Terns present. There were 7 species of shorebird mostly Semipalmated Sandpipers (230), and 8 species of warbler including a male Black-throated Blue. We noted 7 Red-eyed Vireos and a single Blue-headed Vireo in the 45 species for the afternoon. So for those doing a post-analysis of birds form Earl, not much fell out east of the path on the Northumberland shore as noted by Randy and John in earlier emails. cheers Ken --Boundary_(ID_X7uFGDkktg1Oc87Km6a6lA) 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 8.00.6001.18939"> <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>Seeing the banded Royal Tern and Leaches Storm Petrels late Sat. after the eye of Earl passed through Big I., I felt there might be more storm blown birds around Pictou Co. On Sunday, the tide was a bit high in the early morning at Big I. so Rick Ferguson and I started our day at Waterside PP and Caribou I. actually closer to the path of the hurricane. There were none of the rarities seen in HRM, Lun.Shelburne and Queens counties. About the only somewhat out of season birds were about 8 swallows. Four of those seen close enough were Barn Swallows. I had brief looks at 2 with buff rumps, but not enough detail to tell if Cliff or Cave. Among the birds at Waterside were 200 Bonaparte's Gulls and 8 species of shorebird. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>At the Lighthouse bar at the tip of Caribou I., there were 75 Terns. As far as I could tell they were Common Terns and not all that unusual for that locale this time of year. There were 270 Bonaparte's Gulls at the point and more out over the Strait. A single Barn Swallow and 7 species of shorebird were present here as well. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>We then headed to Big I. as the tide was falling about 12:30. Alas, not a lot of storm strays. With quite a bit of searching we found a single Leaches Storm Petrel but no sign of the banded Royal Tern although there were still 20 Common Terns present. There were 7 species of shorebird mostly Semipalmated Sandpipers (230), and 8 species of warbler including a male Black-throated Blue. We noted 7 Red-eyed Vireos and a single Blue-headed Vireo in the 45 species for the afternoon. So for those doing a post-analysis of birds form Earl, not much fell out east of the path on the Northumberland shore as noted by Randy and John in earlier emails. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>cheers</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Ken</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> --Boundary_(ID_X7uFGDkktg1Oc87Km6a6lA)--
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