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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_ChvaVMc8Yc2yGNUPc4eCdQ) 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 group of us ( Sandy MacGregor, Charlie Kendell, George Childe and myself) spent about 4 hours today, Jan. 15, 2011, exploring Sober I., HRM on a beautiful winter day. Often gloves were not needed and in the kelp were clouds of kelp flies to keep the Pipits happy! Below is our list of birds seen. The Killdeer were probably expected for this year with the number that have been reported in the last month along the Atlantic shore. We were a little surprised to see 3 distant Yellowlegs in the kelp of Fishery Island. They were too far to identify, but possibly Greater as a Killdeer seen after they flew off appeared smaller in height. Shortly after that an accipiter zipped along over that beach area; it seemed too large for a Sharpie, but it was hard to come to a definitive conclusion as were the cormorants sitting on distant offshore island. We had both species seen more clearly elsewhere along the coast, but these were just a little fuzzy to be able to decide for sure. En route to and from Sober I., we had a group of about 100 Redpolls and a White-winged Crossbill in the Trafalgar area, a Killdeer just east of Sheet Harbour, 12 Hooded Mergansers in East River of Sheet Harbour, another 16 Hooded Mergansers and 5 Common Mergansers at West Quoddy, 11 Great Cormorants (most supporting nice white flank patches) seen from the wharf off the wharf from Atkins Pt. Rd., 2 Double-crested Cormorants at Port Dufferin and a Great Horned Owl just inside the south end of the Liscomb Game Sanctuary. cheers ken Location: Sober Island Observation date: 15/01/11 Number of species: 27 American Black Duck 20 Common Eider 15 Surf Scoter 45 Black Scoter 2 Long-tailed Duck 45 Bufflehead 8 Common Goldeneye 30 Red-breasted Merganser 17 Ring-necked Pheasant 2 Common Loon 7 Horned Grebe 4 Red-necked Grebe 3 cormorant sp. 12 Accipiter sp. 1 Rough-legged Hawk 1 Killdeer 2 Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs 3 Purple Sandpiper 5 Herring Gull 6 Black Guillemot 35 Mourning Dove 10 Hairy Woodpecker 1 American Crow 6 Black-capped Chickadee 15 Boreal Chickadee 6 Golden-crowned Kinglet 7 European Starling 1 American Pipit 4 Song Sparrow 2 White-winged Crossbill 2 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org/Canada) --Boundary_(ID_ChvaVMc8Yc2yGNUPc4eCdQ) 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 8.00.6001.18999"> <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></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hi all</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>A group of us ( Sandy MacGregor, Charlie Kendell, George Childe and myself) spent about 4 hours today, Jan. 15, 2011, exploring Sober I., HRM on a beautiful winter day. Often gloves were not needed and in the kelp were clouds of kelp flies to keep the Pipits happy! Below is our list of birds seen. The Killdeer were probably </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>expected for this year with the number that have been reported in the last month along the Atlantic shore. We were a little surprised to see 3 distant Yellowlegs </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>in the kelp of Fishery Island. They were too far to identify, but possibly Greater as a Killdeer seen after they flew off appeared smaller in height. Shortly after that an accipiter zipped along over that beach area; it seemed too large for a Sharpie, but it was hard to come to a definitive conclusion as were the cormorants sitting on distant offshore island. We had both species seen more clearly elsewhere along the coast, but these were just a little fuzzy to be able to decide for sure. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>En route to and from Sober I., we had a group of about 100 Redpolls and a White-winged Crossbill in the Trafalgar area, a Killdeer just east of Sheet Harbour, </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>12 Hooded Mergansers in East </FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial>River of Sheet Harbour, another 16 Hooded Mergansers and 5 Common Mergansers at West Quoddy, 11 Great Cormorants </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>(most supporting nice white flank </FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial>patches) seen from the wharf off the wharf from Atkins Pt. Rd., 2 Double-crested Cormorants at Port Dufferin and</FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial> a </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Great Horned Owl just inside the south end of the Liscomb Game Sanctuary. </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></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Location: Sober Island<BR>Observation date: 15/01/11<BR>Number of species: 27<BR><BR>American Black Duck 20<BR>Common Eider 15<BR>Surf Scoter 45<BR>Black Scoter 2<BR>Long-tailed Duck 45<BR>Bufflehead 8<BR>Common Goldeneye 30<BR>Red-breasted Merganser 17<BR>Ring-necked Pheasant 2<BR>Common Loon 7<BR>Horned Grebe 4<BR>Red-necked Grebe 3<BR>cormorant sp. 12<BR>Accipiter sp. 1<BR>Rough-legged Hawk 1<BR>Killdeer 2<BR>Greater/Lesser Yellowlegs 3<BR>Purple Sandpiper 5<BR>Herring Gull 6<BR>Black Guillemot 35<BR>Mourning Dove 10<BR>Hairy Woodpecker 1<BR>American Crow 6<BR>Black-capped Chickadee 15<BR>Boreal Chickadee 6<BR>Golden-crowned Kinglet 7<BR>European Starling 1<BR>American Pipit 4<BR>Song Sparrow 2<BR>White-winged Crossbill 2<BR><BR>This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(</FONT><A href="http://ebird.org/Canada"><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">http://ebird.org/Canada</FONT></A><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">)</FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML> --Boundary_(ID_ChvaVMc8Yc2yGNUPc4eCdQ)--
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