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--Boundary_(ID_G7dGE3qNQzvKJyf1trTXvw) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Sorry for sending this with no subject line earlier! from Jim in Wolfville. Begin forwarded message: > JULY 27, 2011 - As on July 24, I walked east Evangeline Beach for > shorebirds, esp. "peeps", from 2 hours after high tide, for about > an hour, ending where the trees end along the east end of the beach > (west of The Guzzle). High tide was at 10:48, and my walk was from > 11:45 to about 1 p.m. I was too late to see most arriving flocks > of peeps, but the early foraging by them was very similar to July > 24. That is, I guestimated about 3500 peeps concentrated at the > water line a little east of Jean Merks' home, well east of all the > summer cottages and roughly at the east end of the trees behind the > beach. By about 12:20 or 12:25 I noticed a few hundreds of peeps > flying from there along the ebbing tide line toward the west, and I > couldn't tell where they might be going. > > Later I drove to the commercial area of the canteen and shorebird > signage, but could see no foraging shorebirds on the shore from > that point. I looked around for any public access to the beach for > the public, but could not see any sets of steps that were public. > One family of six or so people (no dogs) was out on the flats, but > today was overcast and quite threatening for rain (which > materialized in mid-afternoon). > > The only other notable sightings were of 2 separate adult bald > eagles, and, under bryozoan skeletons and seaweeds and other debris > stranded at the high tide line on the upper beach, oodles of small > "beach fleas" (small dark jumping crustaceans in the order Amphipoda). > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville --Boundary_(ID_G7dGE3qNQzvKJyf1trTXvw) 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; "> Sorry for sending this with no subject line earlier! from Jim in = Wolfville.<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded = message:</div><br><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" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>JULY = 27, 2011</b> - As on July 24, I walked <b>east Evangeline Beach for = shorebirds,</b> esp. "peeps", from 2 hours after high tide, for about an = hour, ending where the trees end along the east end of the beach (west = of The Guzzle). High tide was at 10:48, and my walk was from 11:45 = to about 1 p.m. I was too late to see most arriving flocks of = peeps, but the early foraging by them was very similar to July 24. = That is, I guestimated about 3500 peeps concentrated at the water line a = little east of Jean Merks' home, well east of all the summer cottages = and roughly at the east end of the trees behind the beach. By = about 12:20 or 12:25 I noticed a few hundreds of peeps flying from there = along the ebbing tide line toward the west, and I couldn't tell where = they might be going.</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">Later I drove to the commercial area of the canteen = and shorebird signage, but could see no foraging shorebirds on the shore = from that point. I looked around for any public access to the = beach for the public, but could not see any sets of steps that were = public. One family of six or so people (no dogs) was out on the = flats, but today was overcast and quite threatening for rain (which = materialized in mid-afternoon).</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">The only other notable = sightings were of 2 separate adult <b>bald eagles</b>, and, under = bryozoan skeletons and seaweeds and other debris stranded at the high = tide line on the upper beach, <b>oodles of small "beach fleas" = </b>(small dark jumping crustaceans in the order = Amphipoda). </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> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_G7dGE3qNQzvKJyf1trTXvw)--
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