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--Boundary_(ID_kS00ql001pVzSH2jaOrsfA) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Gayle, thanks for the question and education re Facebook, about which I am totally ignorant (and intend to continue that ignorance). I use "peep" to refer to unspecified small shorebirds, i.e., sandpipers and plovers up to the sizes of semipalmated plovers and white-rumped or Baird's sandpipers. It's just a convenient word for flocks of possibly mixed species of shorebirds smaller than dowitchers or pectoral sandpipers or black-bellied plovers etc. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville Begin forwarded message: > From: duartess@ns.sympatico.ca > Date: July 24, 2011 6:01:02 PM ADT > To: jimwolford@eastlink.ca > Cc: duartess@ns.sympatico.ca > Subject: 'Peeps'? > > Hello Jim, > > I always enjoy read your interesting nature & birding updates on > the NatureNS site, but, is the term 'Peeps' an acronym for a > certain species of birds? > > More recently (& maybe you were aware, anyway), the term 'peeps' > now, also refers to Facebook members & their friends. > > I know, 'the times, they are 'a changin'... > > Thanks Jim! > > Gayle MacLean > Dartmouth > ---- "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> wrote: >> JULY 24, 2011 - High tide this morning was 8:03 a.m., according to >> Blomidon Nat. Soc. calendar. As the tide ebbed from 9:45 to 10:45 >> a.m. Pat Hawes and I walked the east end of Evangeline Beach to look >> for shorebirds/peeps, from the break in the woods that formerly was a >> boat launch site to the east end of the woods, well west of The >> Guzzle at the east end (northeasterly point of Grand Pre and Long >> Island). >> >> Because today's high tide was a very low high (only 8.7 metres of >> amplitude), the tide was quite far out when we arrived, and >> immediately we saw flying flocks of peeps. As usual, nearly all the >> flocks were flying from the east (from where?) toward the west, >> although some of the flocks turned back toward the east in flight >> before reversing and heading east again. Such makes it impossible to >> keep track of how many total birds there are and what individual >> flocks are doing, especially when they land among a feeding flock >> along the shore. >> >> Today there was no accumulation of peeps on the shore at the east end >> of the beach. Rather, the early flocks started landing at the >> water's edge at and just east of Jean Merk's home, and then the >> feeding flocks attracted later-arriving flying flocks from the east. >> >> I can only guess at the total number of peeps seen today, probably at >> least 3000 -- 1500 were feeding in that spot mentioned above, but >> flocks were always coming and going from there (to where? mostly to >> the west? or across to Starr's Point?). >> >> We also saw 4 bald eagles (2 adults and 2 dark immatures -- quite >> possibly a family?), plus several gulls and cormorants. No falcons >> seen, but we bet there are some in the area, both merlins and >> peregrines. >> >> Cheers from Jim in Wolfville --Boundary_(ID_kS00ql001pVzSH2jaOrsfA) 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; "> Gayle, thanks for the question and education re Facebook, about which I = am totally ignorant (and intend to continue that ignorance). I use = "peep" to refer to unspecified small shorebirds, i.e., sandpipers and = plovers up to the sizes of semipalmated plovers and white-rumped or = Baird's sandpipers. It's just a convenient word for flocks of possibly = mixed species of shorebirds smaller than dowitchers or pectoral = sandpipers or black-bellied plovers etc.<div><br></div><div>Cheers from = Jim in Wolfville<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:duartess@ns.sympatico.ca">duartess@ns.sympatico.ca</a></fon= t></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">July 24, 2011 6:01:02 PM = ADT</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a></font></= div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Cc: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:duartess@ns.sympatico.ca">duartess@ns.sympatico.ca</a></fon= t></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>'Peeps'?</b></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <div style=3D"margin-top:= 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Hello = Jim,</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">I always enjoy read your interesting nature & = birding updates on the NatureNS site, but, is the term 'Peeps' an = acronym for a certain species of birds?</div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px;