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Index of Subjects Hi Wayne, Your comments on Vesper Sparrows are interesting. I have had a Vesper Sparrow on the Migration Count in the previous two years (Cambridge Area - Brooklyn Street). Last Saturday I had four in the same area I had seen the others. I know George Alliston had done an environmental survey in the Kingston area many years ago and had found a good population - you would have to ask him where it was. ////// === /////// Larry Bogan Brooklyn Corner, Nova Scotia <larry@bogan.ca> On Mon, 13 May 2013 22:15:54 -0300 "Wayne P. Neily" <neilyornis@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hello all, > > Most of the birds here on Saturday's (May 11) count were what we would expect, but while driving around Greenwood in the a.m., Frances Lourie and I heard a bird that brought back memories of the Prairies - a Vesper Sparrow singing vigourously. We were quickly able to get a close look at it perched on a nearby fence. Traveling along the same road for about 1km, I was able to hear at least seven more singing as though on territory. These were the first that I had heard or seen since returning to Nova Scotia in 2005, so were quite exciting for me. I had checked other locations around Kingston and Kentville where they used to occur (such as the Paragon Golf Club) in other years without success, and so was delighted to find an apparently viable breeding population here. > > Although I"m not sure if it is officially listed yet as threatened for Nova Scotia, it probably should be, and this location is much more vulnerable to disturbance than the Inverness Co, one reported last year (?) by Jeff MacLeod, so I am hesitant to precisely identify the location on the lists. If any serious birders are anxious to see them, please contact me off-list. > > > > > Wayne P. Neily > Tremont, Kings Co., Nova Scotia > > > "How often we forget all time, when lone, > Admiring Nature's universal throne, > Her woods, her wilds, her waters, the intense > Reply of hers to our intelligence." - George Gordon, Lord Byron, 1823 [The Island]. > >
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