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--Boundary_(ID_wkk6amelCCUilFHYnrG0tg) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT JULY 11, 2011 - Since July 8 there has been at least one gray catbird in our yard giving alarm calls often, perhaps indicating nesting? I saw the catbird today, when it answered my amateurish pishing. This makes three summers in a row for this catbird phenomenon in our dense back shrubs. High tide today was at 10 a.m., and I did a shorebird walk at Evangeline Beach from 11:30 a.m. to 12:40 p.m. I walked the eastern part of the upper beach as they tide ebbed, from the former public boat launch area (well east of canteen & motel) to the east end of the woods. I saw no small shorebirds (peeps) at all, but of course I might have missed a few small flying flocks, or some may have arrived there after I quit my walk. And I should add that viewing conditions were terrible today, with extremely bright Sunshine and very warm distorted views. What I did see were 9 white-winged scoters, 1+2 adult bald eagles, a great blue heron, great black-backed and herring gulls (Boot Island's gulls are now nearly all GBBGs with just a few HEGUs), 5 crows (probably a family), and 1+1 cabbage white butterflies. I also drove to the far east end of the beach, what we locally call "The Guzzle". There were no striped bass fishermen to ask about sandpipers, and I didn't see any there among the upper rocks. But "silverweed" was conspicuously in bloom just above the upper beach; silverweed is a showy cinquefoil with silvery undersides of the leaves -- Potentilla anserina. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville --Boundary_(ID_wkk6amelCCUilFHYnrG0tg) Content-type: text/html; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><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>JULY = 11, 2011</b> - Since July 8 there has been at least one <b>gray = catbird</b> in our yard giving alarm calls often, perhaps indicating = nesting? I saw the catbird today, when it answered my amateurish = pishing. This makes three summers in a row for this catbird = phenomenon in our dense back shrubs.</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">High tide today was at 10 = a.m., and I did a<b> shorebird walk at Evangeline Beach</b> from 11:30 = a.m. to 12:40 p.m. I walked the eastern part of the upper beach as = they tide ebbed, from the former public boat launch area (well east of = canteen & motel) to the east end of the woods. I saw <b>no = small shorebirds (peeps)</b> at all, but of course I might have missed a = few small flying flocks, or some may have arrived there after I quit my = walk. And I should add that viewing conditions were terrible = today, with extremely bright Sunshine and very warm distorted = views.</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">What I did see were 9 <b>white-winged scoters</b>, 1+2 = adult <b>bald eagles</b>, a <b>great blue heron</b>, great black-backed = and herring <b>gulls </b>(Boot Island's gulls are now nearly all GBBGs = with just a few HEGUs), 5 <b>crows</b> (probably a family), and 1+1 = <b>cabbage white butterflies</b>.</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">I also drove to the far east = end of the beach, what we locally call <b>"The Guzzle"</b>. There = were no striped bass fishermen to ask about sandpipers, and I didn't see = any there among the upper rocks. But "<b>silverweed</b>" was = conspicuously<b> in bloom</b> just above the upper beach; silverweed is = a showy cinquefoil with silvery undersides of the leaves --<i> = Potentilla anserina</i>.</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"><br></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">Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville</font></div> </body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_wkk6amelCCUilFHYnrG0tg)--
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