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--Apple-Mail-14--288424129 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed AUG. 17, 2012 (cont.) - I returned to Evangeline Beach parking lot at 3:05 p.m., 1 hr. 40 min. after high tide. About 2500 peeps were flying off the ebbing beach and then re-landing. The beach was still pretty narrow, so that this is not the time for walking through the foraging or roosting habitat of the birds. Two pairs of human recreators were obliviously walking through the foraging habitat of the peeps and close to some of the birds, but by 3:20 p.m. the beach was fairly wide and any human disturbance much reduced. At 3:25 p.m. I walked east from the public stairs for about 20 minutes. During most of that time there were many smallish flocks, up to 200 peeps, that were working their way westward along the beach, by flying, relanding, and foraging a bit, and then flying again (my impression, impossible to follow individual birds). Today the peeps consisted of about 90% semipalmated sandpipers, and 10% semipalmated plovers. (Yesterday or the day before, one of the big flocks near the viewing platform was, contrastingly, about 2/3 semipalmated plovers and 1/3 semipalmated sandpipers)(impressions with 7X binoculars).) At about 3:30 p.m. several thousands (5000?) more peeps appeared in the air from the east and flew toward the west in a gradual, halting way, by landing and foraging a bit and re-flying, but nearly always toward the west. On this beach walk, I saw great black-backed gulls, herring gulls, a single ring-billed gull, 2 double-crested cormorants in the water close to shore (one noticeably larger than the other, made me wonder if a parent teaching a fledgling to fish??), and crows. NO SQUID EGGS (SEA-MOPS) seen. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. --Apple-Mail-14--288424129 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; "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>AUG. = 17, 2012</b> (cont.) - I returned to <b>Evangeline Beach</b> parking lot = at 3:05 p.m., 1 hr. 40 min.<b> after high tide</b>. About <b>2500 = peeps</b> were flying off the ebbing beach and then re-landing. = The beach was still pretty narrow, so that this is not the time for = walking through the foraging or roosting habitat of the = birds.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">Two pairs of <b>human recreators</b> were obliviously = walking through the foraging habitat of the peeps and close to some of = the birds, but by 3:20 p.m. the beach was fairly wide and any human = disturbance much reduced. </font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: = normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; = "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">At 3:25 p.m.<b> I walked = east</b> from the public stairs for about 20 minutes. During most = of that time there were <b>many smallish flocks</b>, up to 200 peeps, = that were <b>working their way westward</b> along the beach, by flying, = relanding, and foraging a bit, and then flying again (my impression, = impossible to follow individual birds).</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Today the = peeps consisted of about <b>90% semipalmated sandpipers, and 10% = semipalmated plovers</b>. (Yesterday or the day before, one of the = big flocks near the viewing platform was, contrastingly, about 2/3 = semipalmated plovers and 1/3 semipalmated sandpipers)(impressions with = 7X binoculars).)</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">At about 3:30 p.m.<b> several thousands (5000?) more = peeps appeared</b> in the air from the east and flew toward the west in = a gradual, halting way, by landing and foraging a bit and re-flying, but = nearly always toward the west.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: = normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; = "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">On this beach walk, I saw = <b>great black-backed gulls</b>,<b> herring gulls</b>, a single<b> = ring-billed gull</b>, 2 <b>double-crested cormorants</b> in the water = close to shore (one noticeably larger than the other, made me wonder if = a parent teaching a fledgling to fish??), and <b>crows. = </b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><b></b><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica"><b>NO SQUID EGGS</b> (SEA-MOPS) seen.</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica"><br></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Cheers = from Jim in Wolfville.</font></div> </body></html>= --Apple-Mail-14--288424129--
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