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--Boundary_(ID_ZixDQ//OeAbSawJNM43L4Q) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT THANKS, MIKE, from Jim and NatureNS Begin forwarded message: > From: Mike Dadswell <mike.dadswell@acadiau.ca> > Date: December 5, 2011 11:24:57 AM AST > To: "'James W. Wolford'" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Subject: RE: re SEAWEED FLIES -- was American Kestrel, Belted > Kingfisher, Lapland Longspur, Double-crested Cormorant > > JIM > > THERE ARE AT LEAST NINE SPECIES OF SEAWEED FLIES IN THE BAY OF > FUNDY WRACK BEDS. THE COMMONEST LARGE BLACK ONES ARE Coelopa > frigida and Orygma luctuosa, the small black ones are in the genus > Thoracocheata (three species). There are two species in the genus > Chersodromia and one each of Scatophaga (a large tanny yellow fly > which is also found around cow plops) AND THE Genus Fucellia (one > species known but probably more). > > The amphipods (beach hoppers; Family Talitridae) belong to two > species Orchestia gammarella and Orchestia grillus. They are > usually found on different types of beaches grillus on sandy-muddy > and protected beaches, gammarella on open, rocky - gravel coasts. > Talitrids are essentially terrestrial and will die if submersed for > long in salt water. They migrate out of the wrack beds in winter > and move inland under rocks, logs etc. The flies spend the winter > inland also, either as adults or pupae. > > Hope this helps > > Mike Dadswell > > > > From: James W. Wolford [mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca] > Sent: Friday, December 02, 2011 11:16 PM > To: NatureNS > Cc: Mike Dadswell; Sherman Bleakney > Subject: re SEAWEED FLIES -- was American Kestrel, Belted > Kingfisher, Lapland Longspur, Double-crested Cormorant > > Seaweed Flies or Kelp Flies are in the family Coelopidae of the > order Diptera, which includes all true flies like crane flies, > mosquitoes, midges, house flies, hover flies, bee flies, etc. etc. > My field guides mention one species of Coelopus on the East Coast > and Arctic Coasts and another species on the West Coast from Alaska > to Baja California. But my memory from what Mike Dadswell or maybe > Sherman Bleakney tells me there are at least two species on the > Atlantic Coast. Maybe someone else on this list can enlighten us > further. Those washed-up kelps and other seaweeds year-round > provide a diverse ecosystem of scavengers and other species, > including not just a diversity of flies but also one of my > favourite groups, the amphipod crustaceans we call "beach fleas" or > "sand hoppers". And these windrows of seaweeds on the shore > attract a variety of larger and terrestrial critters, especially at > night, like small mammals and deer plus spiders etc. > > Jim Wolford > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Date: December 2, 2011 5:58:42 PM AST > To: NatureNS <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>, Andrew Boyne > <Andrew.Boyne@EC.GC.CA> > Subject: [NatureNS] American Kestrel, Belted Kingfisher, Lapland > Longspur, Double-crested Cormorant > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > Those flies associated with the seaweeds and longspur are, not > surprisingly, very probably SEAWEED FLIES! Without looking them > up, I am reluctant to name the family, but I do recall there are > more than one species of these in Nova Scotia. Also I am pretty > sure that washed up and rotting seaweeds can be expected to have > various stages in their life cycles at most or all times of the > year, including during our winter. Thus it's not surprising that > washed-up seaweeds, particularly after storms, are great places to > look for foraging birds of a wide variety of kinds, from shorebirds > to warblers to flycatchers to longspurs and lots of others! Jim in > Wolfville > > Begin forwarded message: > > > From: James Hirtle <jrhbirder@hotmail.com> > Date: December 2, 2011 5:05:33 PM AST > To: Naturens Naturens <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>, Rare Alert <ns- > rba@yahoogroups.com> > Subject: [NatureNS] American Kestrel, Belted Kingfisher, Lapland > Longspur, Double-crested Cormorant > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > Hi all: > > Additions for the Winter list I believe. Today David Walmark and I > managed to get in a few hours of birding. Good birds located were > at Conrad's Island, Lower Rose Bay, where we observed and watched > an American kestrel on the wires along the causeway going out to > the island. Along the beach edge of Sand Dollar Beach as the > locals call it we had a Lapland longspur. The longspur provided > great viewing and was not the least bit concerned about our > presence. There were lots of flys of some sort coming up off the > seaweed that the longspur was partaking of. There was also a > belted kingfisher present that we watched fly across towards > Kingsburg. Oh yes, and there was a double-crested cormorant also > sitting on the shoreline on the inside of the causeway. > > Other interesting species observed today but not rare, were all > three scoter species. Surf scoters can easily be gotten along the > LaHave River any time over the winter. The white-winged scoters > were off of Sand Dollar Beach at Rose Bay and a lone black scoter > was off Kingsburg Beach. For here American coots are hard to come > by. There was one in Kingsburg Pond at Kingsburg. Off Kingsburg > Beach there was a Barrow's X Common Goldeneye. Also there were two > red-necked grebes and two red-throated loons. > > James R. Hirtle > Bridgewater > > --Boundary_(ID_ZixDQ//OeAbSawJNM43L4Q) 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; "> THANKS, MIKE, from Jim and NatureNS<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">Mike Dadswell <<a = href=3D"mailto:mike.dadswell@acadiau.ca">mike.dadswell@acadiau.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>Date: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">December 5, 2011 11:24:57 AM = AST</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">"'James W. Wolford'" <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.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>RE: re SEAWEED FLIES -- was American = Kestrel, Belted Kingfisher, Lapland Longspur, Double-crested = Cormorant</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; = "><br></div> <span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: = separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: = normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: = normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: = 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div = class=3D"WordSection1" style=3D"page: WordSection1; "><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif; "><span style=3D"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, = sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">JIM<o:p></o:p></span></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif; "><span style=3D"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, = sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); = "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style=3D"font-size: = 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); = "> THERE ARE AT LEAST NINE SPECIES OF SEAWEED FLIES IN = THE BAY OF FUNDY WRACK BEDS. THE COMMONEST LARGE BLACK ONES = ARE<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Coelopa = frigida</i><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<i><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>Orygma luctuosa, = </i>the small black ones are in the genus<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Thoracocheata<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></i> (three = species). There are two species in the genus<i><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>Chersodromia<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>and one each of<i><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>Scatophaga</i><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>(a large tanny yellow fly = which is also found around cow plops) AND THE Genus<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Fucellia</i><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>(one species known but = probably more).<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style=3D"font-size: = 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); = "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style=3D"font-size: = 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); = "> The amphipods (beach hoppers; Family = Talitridae) belong to two species<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Orchestia = gammarella</i><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>and<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Orchestia = grillus.</i> They are usually found on different types of = beaches<span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><i>grillus<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></i>on sandy-muddy and = protected beaches,<i><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>gammarella</i><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>on open, rocky - = gravel coasts. Talitrids are essentially terrestrial and = will die if submersed for long in salt water. They migrate out of = the wrack beds in winter and move inland under rocks, logs etc. = The flies spend the winter inland also, either as adults or = pupae.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style=3D"font-size: = 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); = "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style=3D"font-size: = 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); = "> Hope this helps<o:p></o:p></span></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif; "><span style=3D"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, = sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); = "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style=3D"font-size: = 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Mike = Dadswell<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style=3D"font-size: = 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); = "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style=3D"font-size: = 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); = "> <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; = font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span = style=3D"font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: = rgb(31, 73, 125); "><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div><div = style=3D"border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; = border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; = border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); = border-top-width: 1pt; padding-top: 3pt; padding-right: 0in; = padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span lang=3D"EN-US" = style=3D"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; = ">From:</span></b><span lang=3D"EN-US" style=3D"font-size: 10pt; = font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>James W. Wolford [<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>]<= span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><br><b>Sent:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, December 02, 2011 = 11:16 PM<br><b>To:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>NatureNS<br><b>Cc:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>Mike Dadswell; Sherman = Bleakney<br><b>Subject:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>re SEAWEED FLIES -- was = American Kestrel, Belted Kingfisher, Lapland Longspur, Double-crested = Cormorant<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; = font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; = "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: = 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; = font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Seaweed Flies or Kelp Flies are = in the family Coelopidae of the order Diptera, which includes all true = flies like crane flies, mosquitoes, midges, house flies, hover flies, = bee flies, etc. etc. My field guides mention one species of = Coelopus on the East Coast and Arctic Coasts and another species on the = West Coast from Alaska to Baja California. But my memory from what = Mike Dadswell or maybe Sherman Bleakney tells me there are at least two = species on the Atlantic Coast. Maybe someone else on this list can = enlighten us further. Those washed-up kelps and other seaweeds = year-round provide a diverse ecosystem of scavengers and other species, = including not just a diversity of flies but also one of my favourite = groups, the amphipod crustaceans we call "beach fleas" or "sand = hoppers". And these windrows of seaweeds on the shore attract a = variety of larger and terrestrial critters, especially at night, like = small mammals and deer plus spiders etc.<o:p></o:p></div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; = font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Jim = Wolford <o:p></o:p></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; = "><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville.<o:p></o:p></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; = "><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Begin forwarded = message:<o:p></o:p></div></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; = "><br><br><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span = style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: = black; ">From:<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span = style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; ">"James W. = Wolford" <<a href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca" style=3D"color: = blue; text-decoration: underline; = ">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>></span><o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif; "><b><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, = sans-serif; color: black; ">Date:<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span = style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; ">December = 2, 2011 5:58:42 PM AST</span><o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif; "><b><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, = sans-serif; color: black; ">To:<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span = style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; ">NatureNS = <<a href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca" style=3D"color: blue; = text-decoration: underline; ">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a>>, Andrew = Boyne <<a href=3D"mailto:Andrew.Boyne@EC.GC.CA" style=3D"color: blue; = text-decoration: underline; = ">Andrew.Boyne@EC.GC.CA</a>></span><o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif; "><b><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, = sans-serif; color: black; ">Subject:<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span = style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; = ">[NatureNS] American Kestrel, Belted Kingfisher, Lapland Longspur, = Double-crested Cormorant</span></b><o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif; "><b><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, = sans-serif; color: black; ">Reply-To:<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span = style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; "><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca" style=3D"color: blue; = text-decoration: underline; = ">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></span><o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Those flies associated = with the seaweeds and longspur are, not surprisingly, very probably = SEAWEED FLIES! Without looking them up, I am reluctant to name the = family, but I do recall there are more than one species of these in Nova = Scotia. Also I am pretty sure that washed up and rotting seaweeds = can be expected to have various stages in their life cycles at most or = all times of the year, including during our winter. Thus it's not = surprising that washed-up seaweeds, particularly after storms, are great = places to look for foraging birds of a wide variety of kinds, from = shorebirds to warblers to flycatchers to longspurs and lots of others! = Jim in Wolfville<o:p></o:p></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; = font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; = "><o:p> </o:p></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; ">Begin forwarded = message:<o:p></o:p></div></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; = "><br><br><o:p></o:p></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><b><span = style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: = black; ">From:<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span = style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; ">James = Hirtle <<a href=3D"mailto:jrhbirder@hotmail.com" style=3D"color: = blue; text-decoration: underline; = ">jrhbirder@hotmail.com</a>></span><o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif; "><b><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, = sans-serif; color: black; ">Date:<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span = style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; ">December = 2, 2011 5:05:33 PM AST</span><o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif; "><b><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, = sans-serif; color: black; ">To:<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span = style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Naturens = Naturens <<a href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca" style=3D"color: = blue; text-decoration: underline; ">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a>>, = Rare Alert <<a href=3D"mailto:ns-rba@yahoogroups.com" style=3D"color: = blue; text-decoration: underline; = ">ns-rba@yahoogroups.com</a>></span><o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif; "><b><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, = sans-serif; color: black; ">Subject:<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><b><span = style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; = ">[NatureNS] American Kestrel, Belted Kingfisher, Lapland Longspur, = Double-crested Cormorant</span></b><o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif; "><b><span style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, = sans-serif; color: black; ">Reply-To:<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span = style=3D"font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; "><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca" style=3D"color: blue; = text-decoration: underline; = ">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></span><o:p></o:p></div></div><div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; = font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span = style=3D"font-size: 18pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; color: black; = ">Hi all:<br> <br>Additions for the Winter list I believe. = Today David Walmark and I managed to get in a few hours of = birding. Good birds located were at Conrad's Island, Lower Rose = Bay, where we observed and watched an American kestrel on the wires = along the causeway going out to the island. Along the beach edge = of Sand Dollar Beach as the locals call it we had a Lapland = longspur. The longspur provided great viewing and was not the = least bit concerned about our presence. There were lots of flys of = some sort coming up off the seaweed that the longspur was partaking = of. There was also a belted kingfisher present that we watched fly = across towards Kingsburg. Oh yes, and there was a double-crested = cormorant also sitting on the shoreline on the inside of the = causeway. <span = class=3D"apple-converted-space"> </span><br> <br>Other = interesting species observed today but not rare, were all three scoter = species. Surf scoters can easily be gotten along the LaHave River = any time over the winter. The white-winged scoters were off of = Sand Dollar Beach at Rose Bay and a lone black scoter was off Kingsburg = Beach. For here American coots are hard to come by. There = was one in Kingsburg Pond at Kingsburg. Off Kingsburg Beach there = was a Barrow's X Common Goldeneye. Also there were two red-necked = grebes and two red-throated loons.<br> <br>James R. = Hirtle<br>Bridgewater<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; = margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', = serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0in; = margin-right: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; margin-left: 0in; font-size: = 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; = "><o:p> </o:p></div></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br><= /body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_ZixDQ//OeAbSawJNM43L4Q)--
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