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Index of Subjects --00032555f6eab2dab204b1f3d7b9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I had a GHOW today in Brookside, too, close to Tracey Rd. The crows let me know it was around, of course. It stayed in the same spot listening to the crows all day until I stumbled through the woods to get a look. Jeff On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Hans Toom <htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca> wrote: > ** > I spotted a large brown bird on the rocks at Duncan's Cove this morning so > I went to investigate. Rather than a hoped for juvenile Brown Booby it was > a brown *Great Cormorant* but the walk was worth the effort. A clamoring > of gulls alerted me to a *Great Horned Owl* nearby, perhaps only 15 > metres distant. I was just raising my camera for a full frame photo when > "whamo", a crow chopped it on the head and off it flew. I'm sure it will > stay in the area so I'll try to call it out this afternoon. > > A quick check of the rocks off Bull Point near Sambro revealed my first *Purple > Sandpiper* of the season. > > Hans > > _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ > Hans Toom > Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada > http://www.hanstoom.com/ > -- Jeff MacLeod Halifax --00032555f6eab2dab204b1f3d7b9 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I had a GHOW today in Brookside, too, close to Tracey Rd. The crows let me = know it was around, of course. It stayed in the same spot listening to the = crows all day until I stumbled through the woods to get a look.=A0<div><br> </div><div>Jeff</div><div><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 17= , 2011 at 11:35 AM, Hans Toom <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:htoom= @hfx.eastlink.ca">htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquot= e class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc sol= id;padding-left:1ex;"> <u></u> <div bgcolor=3D"#ffffff"> <div><font size=3D"2" face=3D"Arial">I spotted a large brown bird on the ro= cks at=20 Duncan's Cove this morning so I went to investigate. Rather than a hope= d for=20 juvenile Brown Booby it was a brown <strong>Great Cormorant</strong> but th= e=20 walk was worth the effort. A clamoring of gulls alerted me to a <strong>Gre= at=20 Horned Owl</strong> nearby, perhaps only 15 metres distant. I was just rais= ing=20 my camera for a full frame photo when "whamo", a crow chopped it = on the head and=20 off it flew. I'm sure it will stay in the area so I'll try to call = it out this=20 afternoon.</font></div> <div><font size=3D"2" face=3D"Arial"></font>=A0</div> <div><font size=3D"2" face=3D"Arial">A quick check of the rocks off Bull Po= int near=20 Sambro revealed my first <strong>Purple Sandpiper</strong> of the=20 season.</font></div> <div><font size=3D"2" face=3D"Arial"><br>Hans<br>__________________________= ___________________________________________________________________________= ____<br><font color=3D"#888888">Hans=20 Toom<br>Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada<br><a href=3D"http://www.hanst= oom.com/" target=3D"_blank">http://www.hanstoom.com/</a></font></font></div= ></div> </blockquote></div><br><br clear=3D"all"><div><br></div>-- <br>Jeff MacLeod= <br>Halifax<br> </div> --00032555f6eab2dab204b1f3d7b9--
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