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--Apple-Mail-1--745947104 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Begin forwarded message: > From: Rachel Hoogenbos <rachelhoogenbos@yahoo.com> > Date: August 12, 2012 9:25:11 AM ADT > To: Peter H Yaukey <PYaukey@uno.edu> > Cc: jimwolford@eastlink.ca > Subject: Re: could you post to NS Birds for me? > > Hi Peter, I remember meeting you and your wife at the Hawk vividly, > and am asking Jim Wolford by copy of this message to post yours on > Nature NS birding, as I do not post there myself. I only post to > yahoo group NS-RBA (rare bird alert for NS). > Very much enjoyed seeing your list - do keep in touch when you > return. Email will find me and please visit 793 Southside, Cape > Sable Island whether I'm there or not, good birding from my > backdeck, especially around low tide. > > Cheers, > > Rachel > > --- On Sat, 8/11/12, Peter H Yaukey <PYaukey@uno.edu> wrote: > > From: Peter H Yaukey <PYaukey@uno.edu> > Subject: could you post to NS Birds for me? > To: "rachelhoogenbos@yahoo.com" <rachelhoogenbos@yahoo.com> > Cc: "Peter H Yaukey" <PYaukey@uno.edu> > Date: Saturday, August 11, 2012, 11:54 PM > > Hello: > > Sorry to email you out of the blue; we met briefly at the Hawk > about 10 days ago, I was a visiting birder who has a place over on > Blanche Peninsula. I have been watching the NS RBA and birding > listserve since then, and seen that you post frequently. Would you > mind- > > 1- telling me how to subscribe (instead of using surbirds.com to > snoop) > > 2- might you be able to post the following sightings for me before > they get too out of date? > > Hi- I am a birder visiting from New Orleans; have been coming up to > the Blanche Peninsula to our family summer place since the mid > 1970s and met a few of you in the past. But, it has been eight > years since my last visit. > > I was up in the Blanche-Baccaro area July 24-August 1, and had a > few observations of note. Not sure of the status of all these in > Shelburne County now, but they were species I had not seen on my > visits over the years previously. > > American Wigeon- adult female with single half grown young in the > ponds at Blanche. The hen was very agitated at my presence. > > Northern Mockingbird- one at Reynold's Seafood plant in Port LaTour > (which is along highway adjacent the marsh). > > Bald Eagle- adult flying across Eel Bay (the bay west of the > Blanche peninsula), headed west. > > Did not get to visit Sand Hills Beach; elsewhere at my usual sites > there were 200 or so shorebirds along the Blanche Rock Bar, and 350 > or so at the Fort St. Louis historical site above Baccaro (looking > south at low tide; maybe best seen from Smithville Wharf). The > usual species. Seemed to be about 2500 at the Hawk during a scan > from shore there, including a half dozen or so visible Hudsonian > Godwits. > > As usual, gannets easily seen from Baccaro Point; also two > kittiwakes there. > > No luck this visit seeing "reverse morning flight" of migrant > landbirds moving north across the salt marsh that joins the Blanche > Peninsula to the mainland; tried one morning after a cold front but > saw no likely migrant species crossing the gap northward as has > often been the case in past years a little later in August. > > Back in New Orleans now, > > Peter Yaukey --Apple-Mail-1--745947104 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> <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">Rachel Hoogenbos <<a = href=3D"mailto:rachelhoogenbos@yahoo.com">rachelhoogenbos@yahoo.com</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">August 12, 2012 9:25:11 AM = ADT</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">Peter H Yaukey <<a = href=3D"mailto:PYaukey@uno.edu">PYaukey@uno.edu</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>Cc: </b></font><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.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>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: could you post to NS Birds for = me?</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> = <table cellspacing=3D"0" cellpadding=3D"0" border=3D"0"><tbody><tr><td = valign=3D"top" style=3D"font: inherit;"><div>Hi Peter, I remember = meeting you and your wife at the Hawk vividly, and am asking Jim Wolford = by copy of this message to post yours on Nature NS birding, as I do = not post there myself. I only post to yahoo group NS-RBA (rare bird = alert for NS).</div> <div>Very much enjoyed seeing your list - do keep = in touch when you return. Email will find me and please visit 793 = Southside, Cape Sable Island whether I'm there or not, good birding from = my bac