[NatureNS] Hartlen Pt. - mixed message: warblers, buttterflies, request for

Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2011 20:14:52 -0300
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Yesterday son Jamie and I did the whole circuit of Hartlen Pt., around  
"Back Cove" and back by the Harbourside beach. We were entertained by  
good numbers of mostly local juvenile warblers - especially Yellow and  
Common Yellowthroats, but with a few exogenous(?) Palm Warblers - but  
. There were also perhaps 15-20 Common Wood-nymphs the grassy margins  
along the path leading to Back Cove from the golf-course entrance.

PHOTOGRAPHER ALERT: I photo'd an unusually dark-marked adult Ruddy  
Turnstone on rocks below the cliff en route to Back Cove. As in three  
other photos by others from July-Aug. adults, this one seemed  
extensively blackish above, including the crown,  and seemed to match  
subspecies interpres, which nests in w. AK and also in n. Nunavut, but  
is supposed to migrate respectively along the Pacific Coast and to  
Europe and Africa. Ours are supposed to be subspecies morinella, which  
nests in s. Nunavut. Fresh juveniles are also possibly  
distinguishable. Specimens would help, but it would be useful if as  
many photos as possible were obtained of unworn adults and juveniles,  
to see if any patterns emerge.

Cheers, Ian

Ian McLaren



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