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On a trip to Kentville yesterday to deliver something, Bernice McLaren
and I visited a few local areas. Didn't see anything unexpected, but a
Rough-legged Hawk hovering close by near Potrt Williams was a
pleasing sight for B as well as I.
However, I did take an overlapping series of photos across the
traditional large roost of gulls in fields west of the road between
Port Williams and Canning. Then, for a casual approximation of numbers
I stitched them together as a panorama and counted gulls strips
constituting about 29% of the total length. Thus I came up with a
total of about 3040.
This could be done by sampling with more statistical rigour, and some
of my counts were a bit iffy because of poor resolution. Someone else
with better telephoto facilities could do better, but it serves to
suggest that this is the largest flock than I have ever seen in the
province.
I'll bet it includes at least one of every vagrant N. Hemisphere gull {:>} .
Cheers, Ian
Ian McLaren
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