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--=====================_497520312==.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 2 Nov 2010, Prospect Peninsula Hi All; It was a chilly day for dog walking, but I took Sam to the Prospect Barrens, hiking the front trail to Wagner's Beach. With the cold and the north wind I was not expecting too much, but I was pleasantly mistaken. Between 1400 and 1500 I observed no fewer than 4 Rough-legged Hawks, 2 of each colour phase. All flew in off the ocean off the southern tip of the peninsula, and proceeded north up the peninsula's west coast. One, a dark phase, made a kill at the edge of the tree-line, and he had to put up with young Northern Goshawk's ineffective harrassment. The Rough-legged Hawk eventually flew off, the prize still in its talons. This is the largest number of Rough-legged Hawks I've seen in one place in HRM -- I once saw three on Devil's Island. My only Nova Scotia counts larger than 4 have been in the Minudie Marshes of Cumberland County, where I've had double-digit counts on a couple of occasions. This represents only the third sighting of Rough-legged Hawk for the Prospect Peninsula. Hawks weren't the only migrants. Many sizable flocks of robins were also tracking north along the peninsula's coastline, having come in off the ocean. The other northern flavour of the day was provided by the coastal cormorant honour guard -- all six were Greats, with no Double-crested anywhere to be seen. Cheers, Blake ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blake Maybank maybank@ns.sympatico.ca 902-852-2077 Editor, "Nova Scotia Birds" http://nsbs.chebucto.org Organiser, Maritimes Nature Travel Club http://tinyurl.com/naturetravel author, "Birding Sites of Nova Scotia" http://tinyurl.com/birdingns Downloadable Nova Scotia Maps for inside front and back covers: http://tinyurl.com/mr627d White's Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada --=====================_497520312==.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html> <body> 2 Nov 2010, Prospect Peninsula<br><br> Hi All; <br><br> It was a chilly day for dog walking, but I took Sam to the Prospect Barrens, hiking the front trail to Wagner's Beach. With the cold and the north wind I was not expecting too much, but I was pleasantly mistaken.<br><br> Between 1400 and 1500 I observed no fewer than 4 Rough-legged Hawks, 2 of each colour phase. All flew in off the ocean off the southern tip of the peninsula, and proceeded north up the peninsula's west coast. One, a dark phase, made a kill at the edge of the tree-line, and he had to put up with young Northern Goshawk's ineffective harrassment. The Rough-legged Hawk eventually flew off, the prize still in its talons.<br><br> This is the largest number of Rough-legged Hawks I've seen in one place in HRM -- I once saw three on Devil's Island. My only Nova Scotia counts larger than 4 have been in the Minudie Marshes of Cumberland County, where I've had double-digit counts on a couple of occasions.<br><br> This represents only the third sighting of Rough-legged Hawk for the Prospect Peninsula.<br><br> Hawks weren't the only migrants. Many sizable flocks of robins were also tracking north along the peninsula's coastline, having come in off the ocean.<br><br> The other northern flavour of the day was provided by the coastal cormorant honour guard -- all six were Greats, with no Double-crested anywhere to be seen.<br><br> Cheers,<br><br> Blake<br><br> <x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br> Blake Maybank<br> maybank@ns.sympatico.ca<br> 902-852-2077<br><br> Editor, "Nova Scotia Birds"<br> <a href="http://nsbs.chebucto.org/" eudora="autourl"> http://nsbs.chebucto.org<br><br> </a>Organiser, Maritimes Nature Travel Club<br> <font color="#0000FF"><u> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/naturetravel" eudora="autourl"> http://tinyurl.com/naturetravel</a></u></font> <br><br> author, "Birding Sites of Nova Scotia"<br> <font color="#0000FF"><u> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/birdingns" eudora="autourl"> http://tinyurl.com/birdingns<br> </a></u></font>Downloadable Nova Scotia Maps for inside front and back covers:<br> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/mr627d" eudora="autourl"> http://tinyurl.com/mr627d</a> <br><br> White's Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada </body> </html> --=====================_497520312==.ALT--
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