[NatureNS] eagles, scaup, goldeneyes

Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:46:08 -0400
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Hi Jim,
  I haven't seen a scaup here for a while, since the fall I'm sure.  
I'll try to get out this weekend.

George



Quoting "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>:

> FEB. 9, 2012 - In late morning along Hwy. 358 just north of Church
> St., six bald eagles were perched together high and directly over the
> highway.  Then just south of the Canard River, I stopped my car to
> view another six bald eagles on the ground in an open field.  Without
> my binoculars I would have missed two deciduous trees full of about  35
> bald eagles in the distance to the west (nowhere near a road).   When I
> drove back to Port Williams after 1 p.m., all but two of those  eagles
> had dispersed.
>
> Port Williams sewage ponds: I snuck up around the treatment building
> and peered around its south side to view the northern pond -- with
> about 100 mallards were at least five common goldeneyes (3 males, 2
> females) and a single drake scaup -- the scaup flew off before I  could
> scope its head, and I didn't get a good look at how much white  was on
> the trailing edge of the wing -- my guess is lesser scaup, but
> hopefully someone will get the definite identification later (unless
> George Forsyth already has?).
>
> Cheers from Jim in Wolfville



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