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Index of Subjects --_e4acec77-71f5-47c0-8d3a-486bbf7d486f_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I'll send more of a posting when I have time. Pat and I made a run to Port= Clyde=2C Bacarro=2C and Cape Sable Island Today. Noteables: =20 =20 =20 Three solitary sandpipers in a pond in Hebbville=2C near Bernard L. Mailman= Projects Ltd. =20 Tons of belted kingfishers. We had eight. =20 Nice groups of warbler migrants everywhere=2C except for Bacarro and Cape S= able Island. =20 =20 Somewhere close to where the canvasback was last year=2C I found an indigo = bunting perched on the wires beside the road. It was in winter plumage. A= fter watching it for about ten minutes it dropped down into the vegetation = on the shore side of the road by the saltmarsh. =20 =20 In a group of migrants=2C which did include three magnolia warblers=2C I'm = pretty sure I had a prairie warbler=2C but it did not stay still long enoug= h for my saying positively. The lighting was bad into the sun when we were= watching it. =20 =20 At Villagedale one group of migrants contained 25 palm warblers=2C two blac= k and white warblers=2C a magnolia warbler=2C a boreal chickadee and seven = black-capped chickadees. =20 Cape Sable Island Highlights were 20 red knots=2C and 150 green-winged teal= . This is the most green-winged teal that I've seen at one location in abo= ut 20 years. Back then it was not a problem to see between 500-700 green-w= inged teal at one particular location in Lunenburg County that I used to fr= equent. This would be on an October morning during the first of duck seaso= n. Now you are lucky to see around a dozen. As an aside=2C during the pas= t three years I've just gone there with binoculars to see what birds were a= bout and goodly numbers of shorebirds move through when there are few elsew= here. =20 =20 James R. Hirtle Bridgewater = --_e4acec77-71f5-47c0-8d3a-486bbf7d486f_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <head> <style><!-- .hmmessage P { margin:0px=3B padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt=3B font-family:Tahoma } --></style></head> <body class=3D'hmmessage'><div dir=3D'ltr'> <FONT style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12pt" size=3D4>I'll send more of a posting when I= have time. =3B Pat and I made a run to Port Clyde=2C Bacarro=2C and Ca= pe Sable Island Today. =3B Noteables: =3B </FONT><BR> <FONT size=3D3></FONT> =3B<BR> <FONT size=3D3></FONT> =3B<BR> <FONT size=3D3>Three solitary sandpipers in a pond in Hebbville=2C near Ber= nard L. Mailman Projects Ltd.</FONT><BR> <FONT size=3D3></FONT> =3B<BR> <FONT size=3D3>Tons of belted kingfishers. =3B We had eight.</FONT><BR> <FONT size=3D3></FONT> =3B<BR> <FONT size=3D3>Nice groups of warbler migrants everywhere=2C except for Bac= arro and Cape Sable Island. =3B </FONT><BR> <FONT size=3D3></FONT> =3B<BR> <FONT size=3D3>Somewhere close to where the canvasback was last year=2C I f= ound an indigo bunting perched on the wires beside the road. =3B It was= in winter plumage. =3B After watching it for about ten minutes it drop= ped down into the vegetation on the shore side of the road by the saltmarsh= . =3B </FONT><BR> <FONT size=3D3></FONT> =3B<BR> <FONT size=3D3>In a group of migrants=2C which did include three magnolia w= arblers=2C I'm pretty sure I had a prairie warbler=2C but it did not stay s= till long enough for my saying positively. =3B The lighting was bad int= o the sun when we were watching it. =3B </FONT><BR> <FONT size=3D3></FONT> =3B<BR> <FONT size=3D3>At Villagedale one group of migrants contained 25 palm warbl= ers=2C two black and white warblers=2C a magnolia warbler=2C a boreal chick= adee and seven black-capped chickadees.</FONT><BR> <FONT size=3D3></FONT> =3B<BR> <FONT size=3D3>Cape Sable Island Highlights were 20 red knots=2C and 150 gr= een-winged teal. =3B This is the most green-winged teal that I've seen = at one location in about 20 years. =3B Back then it was not a problem t= o see between 500-700 green-winged teal =3Bat one particular location i= n Lunenburg County that I used to frequent. =3B This would be on an Oct= ober morning during the first of duck season. =3B Now you are lucky to = see around a dozen. =3B As an aside=2C during the past three years I've= just gone there with binoculars to see what birds were about and goodly nu= mbers of shorebirds move through when there are few elsewhere. =3B </FO= NT><BR> <FONT size=3D3></FONT> =3B<BR> <FONT size=3D3>James R. Hirtle</FONT><BR> <FONT size=3D3>Bridgewater</FONT><BR> </div></body> </html>= --_e4acec77-71f5-47c0-8d3a-486bbf7d486f_--
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