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Index of Subjects On the morning high tide the huge flocks were very restless. I obtained a rather nice photo of a juvenile Red-necked Phalarope in its first plumage, while using a shotgun approach to photography. On the evening high tide I found one calm flock of 400 birds & was able to photograph a fourth flagged bird. This SESA was marked in Delaware Bay, NJ in May 2011, so presumably it has had at least two breeding seasons. Both photos follow the direct link: http://rickwhitman.smugmug.com/Nature/Birds-July-September-2012/24210793_TpztBd#!i=1988618602&k=T76ChVb Rick Whitman On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Richard <sternrichard@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > It was a beautiful evening at Grand Pre, with high tide around 7:30. There were flocks of peeps in the thousands flying, mostly well offshore, flying in their typical and spectacular formations, but none of the flocks landed close enough to see individual birds well. Certainly most seemed to be as expected, Semi. sandpipers. There were a few Semi. Plovers. We checked East Point and several other areas. On the rocks opposite the Wolfville sewage plant were 26 Black-bellid Plovers and some Least Sandpipers, and rather unusually for these parts, a pure flock of 50+ > Ring-billed Gulls. There were Willets and Gr. Yellowlegs in Wolfville Harbour. There were a good number of Bobolinks in some of the fields, mostly south of Marshcrest Farm, none in adult male breeding plumage. A small flock of C.Eiders was off East Point. Plenty of Song and Savannah Sparrows about. > > Richard Stern > Sent from my iPad
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