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--Boundary_(ID_27uumV2Ixamb13pGrr8gTQ) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT OCT. 24, 2011 - At our feeders today, again 3 n. cardinals at once: adult male, juv. male, and juv. female. And the adult male again chased the juv. female but not the juv. male. Surely this is not sexual, but some sort of territoriality? But why not victimize all juveniles? Also present was an eastern chipmunk. At noon I drove to Windsor and Falmouth. First I checked the Windsor sewage ponds 1.5 hrs. after high tide (h.t. was 11:00 a.m.): with the many black ducks and few mallards on the water were 6 Am. wigeons and 8 ring-billed gulls. Many more gulls were on the dyke between the two ponds, but I didn't look at them. Apparently no shorebirds present. Then I drove to Highway 14 toward Chester, and looked in the grassy fields between the highway and College Road. Of course I was hoping to see at least one or two of the hoped-for bean goose, pink-footed goose, and snow goose. At first I saw no geese at all, but at the church parking lot I met Clyde Stoddard and Peter LeBlanc, and at 1 p.m. Canada geese had just started accumulating in the grassy field directly across from the church. They flew in, flock after flock, from the north, and someone said that geese had been seen feeding on the salt marsh just downstream from the foggy Windsor Causeway earlier. Initially there were no rare geese, so I decided to check out the Falmouth Dyke Road location to look for more geese. I found none there and returned to Clyde and Peter at the church. By that time the snow goose and pink-footed goose had indeed arrived with Canadas, and I had distant looks at them with spotting scopes. And more birders had also arrived, among them Eric Mills, John Belbin, and Bernard Forsythe, plus two curious non-birders. More geese continued to arrive in flocks up to 50 at a time, but no bean goose had appeared by the time I had to leave at 2:30 p.m. If these inland flights of the geese are tidally timed at all, then they will get later by almost an hour every day. Tomorrow's high tide is at about noon. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville --Boundary_(ID_27uumV2Ixamb13pGrr8gTQ) 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>OCT. = 24, 2011 </b>- At our feeders today, again<b> 3 n. cardinals at once: = </b>adult male, juv. male, and juv. female. And the <b>adult male = again chased the juv. female</b> but not the juv. male. Surely = this is not sexual, but some sort of territoriality? But why not = victimize all juveniles?</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">Also present was an <b>eastern = chipmunk.</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; "><b></b><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">At noon I drove to Windsor and Falmouth. First I = checked the <b>Windsor sewage ponds</b> 1.5 hrs. after high tide (h.t. = was 11:00 a.m.): with the many black ducks and few mallards on the water = were 6 <b>Am. wigeons</b> and 8 <b>ring-billed gulls</b>. Many = more gulls were on the dyke between the two ponds, but I didn't look at = them. Apparently <b>no shorebirds</b> = present.</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">Then I drove to Highway 14 toward Chester, and looked = in the grassy fields between the highway and College Road. Of = course I was hoping to see at least one or two of the hoped-for<b> bean = goose, pink-footed goose, and snow goose</b>. At first I saw no = geese at all, but at the church parking lot I met Clyde Stoddard and = Peter LeBlanc, and at 1 p.m. Canada geese had just started accumulating = in the grassy field directly across from the church. They flew in, = flock after flock, from the north, and someone said that geese had been = seen feeding on the salt marsh just downstream from the foggy Windsor = Causeway earlier. </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">Initially there were no rare = geese, so I decided to check out the Falmouth Dyke Road location to look = for more geese. I found none there and returned to Clyde and Peter = at the church. By that time the <b>snow goose and pink-footed = goose</b> had indeed arrived with Canadas, and I had distant looks at = them with spotting scopes. And more birders had also arrived, = among them Eric Mills, John Belbin, and Bernard Forsythe, plus two = curious non-birders. More geese continued to arrive in flocks = up to 50 at a time, but no bean goose had appeared by the time I had to = leave at 2:30 p.m.</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">If these inland flights of the geese are tidally timed = at all, then they will get later by almost an hour every day. = Tomorrow's high tide is at about noon.</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_27uumV2Ixamb13pGrr8gTQ)--
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