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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_qy285rp9anaTvTWXpiW7vA) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Ken McKenna Box 218 Stellarton NS B0K 1S0 902 752-7644 Hi all On Monday afternoon, Sept. 13, I made some observations from Waterside PP - Caribou I. in Pictou Co.. Tide was basically high at the time. There were 6 boats fishing herring off Waterside and the was a pretty good show of Gannets mabe 1500 or so - always hard to estimate a large group like this as many were resting on the water. There were quite a few gulls as well and an adult Lesser Black-backed Gull was observed. There were 330 Bonaparte's Gulls along the beach and a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker was a surprise add to the days list from the park. Along the route to the lighthouse, a number of gulls were roosting on land. There were 2 adult Lesser Black-backed Gulls in this grouping of 250 Ring-billed Gulls, 110 Herring Gullds and 8 Gt- Black-backed gulls. When I arrived at the Caribou lighthouse, the seabird activity was crazy. The Gannets had moved up from Waterside diving and flying around 50 boats fishing herring. There were 10,000+ gulls in the area mostly Herring, but a good number of Gt. Black-backed as well. I found another Lesser Black-backed Gull resting with several thousand gulls on one of the bars. In the midst were 300 seals. I was talking to one of the crew of the PEI ferry on Tues and he said that by night there were a couple hundred boats fishing and whales were observed in the area as well through the day. Quite spectacular to see so many birds! cheers Ken --Boundary_(ID_qy285rp9anaTvTWXpiW7vA) 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></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hi all</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>On Monday afternoon, Sept. 13, I made some observations from Waterside PP - Caribou I. in Pictou Co.. Tide was basically high at the time. There were 6 boats fishing herring off Waterside and the was a pretty good show of Gannets mabe <STRONG>1500</STRONG> or so - always hard to estimate a large group like this as many were resting on the water. There were quite a few gulls as well and an adult <STRONG>Lesser Black-backed Gull</STRONG> was observed. There were 330 Bonaparte's Gulls along the beach and a Yellow-bellied Sapsucker was a surprise add to the days list from the park.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> Along the route to the lighthouse, a number of gulls were roosting on land. There were 2 adult <STRONG>Lesser Black-backed Gulls</STRONG> in this grouping of 250 Ring-billed Gulls, 110 Herring Gullds and 8 Gt- Black-backed gulls. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>When I arrived at the Caribou lighthouse, the seabird activity was crazy. The Gannets had moved up from Waterside diving and flying around 50 boats fishing herring. There were 10,000+ gulls in the area mostly Herring, but a good number of Gt. Black-backed as well. I found another <STRONG>Lesser Black-backed Gull</STRONG> resting with several thousand gulls on one of the bars. In the midst were 300 seals. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I was talking to one of the crew of the PEI ferry on Tues and he said that by night there were a couple hundred boats fishing and whales were observed in the area as well through the day.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Quite spectacular to see so many birds!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>cheers</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Ken</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML> --Boundary_(ID_qy285rp9anaTvTWXpiW7vA)--
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