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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-15--728853040 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi Ken, Soras and at least some other rails build platforms for resting, = brooding, and general hanging out, so that's probably what the adult was = doing. Cool to watch, Andy On Aug 20, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Ken McKenna wrote: > =20 > Ken McKenna > Box 218 Stellarton NS > B0K 1S0 > 902 752-7644 > Hi all > Charlie Kendell and I did some birding yesterday Aug 19 at Big I. The = tide was high most of the day and although I did a shorebird count, I am = sure many more were left unseen in the salt marsh grasses. > Highlight was a new bird for Charlie, a Baird's Sandpiper (juv) along = the Strait side of the east end of the causeway on the upper sand in the = first 100 m or so of the east end of the causeway. > On the way out we drove the MacLellans Brook Rd and at the NE end just = before the intersection of the Sherbrooke Rd. we saw 4 Solitary = Sandpipers along with 2 Least and a Semipalmated Sandpiper in a wet area = along the road > =20 > The Solitary Sandpiper remains at the McGee Pond half way along the = Big I. road. A Sora with at least 3 young is also there and has been = seen for a numbers of weeks. Charlie and I noticed interesting behaviour = of the adult as it seemed to be carrying nest material into a clump of = high grass. It made 6-7 trips in with grasses. This seems to be odd = behaviour as there were young birds present and it seems late in the = year for nest building. > =20 > Land birds were not plentiful with the heat of the day. We did note a = few butterflies- nothing new- Northern Crescent, Clouded Sulphurs, = Cabbage White and a unid'd largish Fritillary likely Great Spangled. In = Egerton we had a Black Swallowtail. > =20 > Bird results have been posted to eBird. --Apple-Mail-15--728853040 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii <html><head><base href=3D"x-msg://101/"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: = break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space; ">Hi Ken,<div><br></div><div>Soras and at least some = other rails build platforms for resting, brooding, and general hanging = out, so that's probably what the adult was = doing.</div><div><br></div><div>Cool to = watch,</div><div>Andy</div><div><br><div><div>On Aug 20, 2013, at 11:14 = AM, Ken McKenna wrote:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; = font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; = orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: = none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div = bgcolor=3D"#ffffff"><div><font size=3D"2" = face=3D"Arial"></font> </div><div><font size=3D"2" face=3D"Arial">Ken= McKenna<br>Box 218 Stellarton NS<br>B0K 1S0<br>902 = 752-7644<br></font></div><div><font size=3D"2" face=3D"Arial">Hi = all</font></div><div><font size=3D"2" face=3D"Arial">Charlie Kendell and = I did some birding yesterday Aug 19 at Big I. The tide was high most of = the day and although I did a shorebird count, I am sure many more were = left unseen in the salt marsh grasses.</font></div><div><font size=3D"2" = face=3D"Arial">Highlight was a new bird for Charlie, a<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Baird's = Sandpiper</strong><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>(juv)= along the Strait side of the east end of the causeway on the upper = sand in the first 100 m or so of the east end of the = causeway.</font></div><div><font size=3D"2" face=3D"Arial">On the way = out we drove the MacLellans Brook Rd and at the NE end just before the = intersection of the Sherbrooke Rd. we saw 4<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Solitary = Sandpipers</strong><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>along with 2 Least and a = Semipalmated Sandpiper in a wet area along the = road</font></div><div><font size=3D"2" = face=3D"Arial"></font> </div><div><font size=3D"2" = face=3D"Arial">The<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Solitary = Sandpiper</strong><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>remains at the McGee Pond = half way along the Big I. road. A<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>Sora<span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong>with at = least 3 young is also there and has been seen for a numbers of = weeks. Charlie and I noticed interesting behaviour of the adult as it = seemed to be carrying nest material into a clump of high grass. It made = 6-7 trips in with grasses. This seems to be odd behaviour as there were = young birds present and it seems late in the year for nest = building.</font></div><div><font size=3D"2" = face=3D"Arial"></font> </div><div><font size=3D"2" = face=3D"Arial">Land birds were not plentiful with the heat of the day. = We did note a few butterflies- nothing new- Northern Crescent, Clouded = Sulphurs, Cabbage White and a unid'd largish Fritillary likely Great = Spangled. <span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span></font><font size=3D"2" = face=3D"Arial">In Egerton we had a Black = Swallowtail.</font></div><div><font size=3D"2" = face=3D"Arial"></font> </div><div><font size=3D"2" = face=3D"Arial">Bird results have been posted to = eBird.</font></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html= >= --Apple-Mail-15--728853040--
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