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--Apple-Mail-72--15608973 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > Subject: [ValleyNature] Evangeline Beach shorebirds & peregrine, > Sept. 22/13 > > SEPT. 22, 2013 - Evangeline Beach, N. Grand Pre -- daytime high > tide 3:37 p.m., amplitude 13.8 metres -- During the rising tide, > Pat & I started at 1:05 p.m. and walked west from the public > stairs. Right away we found roosting and still-foraging flocks of > peeps, and I estimated about 600 total peeps. We also saw a single > peregrine falcon that appeared and made some half-hearted passes at > the flushed and flying peeps (no real chases seen). > > During the walk we came to a high sandstone outcrop & cliff with > several noticeable holes that are or were probably bank swallow > burrows? This is a spot to be checked in mid- to late summer next > year. > > When we got back to the motel and public steps, many more peeps > were now present in several big flocks flying and on the rocks and > on the beach, totalling about 2000 peeps (plus the 500 or so more > peeps that were to the west from here). > > Of these peeps, besides the dominant semipalmated sandpipers, I saw > at least 6 sanderlings, 5 dunlins, several white-rumped sandpipers, > and perhaps 100+ semipalmated plovers. No least sandpipers were > noted, but undoubtedly a few at least were present. > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/ > nature_blomidonnaturalists.ca --Apple-Mail-72--15608973 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><div><br></div><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>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[ValleyNature] Evangeline Beach = shorebirds & peregrine, Sept. 22/13</b></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; 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"><b>SEPT. = 22, 2013</b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#001cd5" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #001cd5"> - </font><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica"><b>Evangeline Beach</b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#001cd5" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #001cd5">, N. Grand Pre -- daytime high tide 3:37 p.m., amplitude 13.8 = metres -- </font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica"><b>During the rising tide</b></font><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#001cd5" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica; color: #001cd5">, Pat & I started at 1:05 p.m. and = </font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica"><b>walked west </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#001cd5" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #001cd5">from = the public stairs. Right away we found roosting and still-foraging = flocks of peeps, and I estimated about </font><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>600 total = peeps.</b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#001cd5" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #001cd5"> We also saw a = single </font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica"><b>peregrine falcon </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#001cd5" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #001cd5">that appeared and made some half-hearted passes at the flushed = and flying peeps (no real chases seen).</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = color: rgb(0, 28, 213); 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" color=3D"#001cd5" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #001cd5">During the walk we came = to a high sandstone outcrop & cliff with several noticeable holes = that are or were probably </font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>bank swallow burrows? </b>This = is a spot to be checked in mid- to late summer next = year.</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">When we got back to the motel and public steps, many = more peeps were now present in several big flocks flying and on the = rocks and on the beach, totalling about <b>2000 peeps (plus the 500</b> = or so more peeps that were to the west from here).</font><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#001cd5" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica; color: #001cd5"> </font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = color: rgb(0, 28, 213); 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"><b>Of these peeps</b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#001cd5" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #001cd5">, besides the dominant </font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3"= style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>semipalmated = sandpipers</b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#001cd5"= style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #001cd5">, I saw at least 6 = </font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica"><b>sanderlings</b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#001cd5" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #001cd5">, 5 = </font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica"><b>dunlins</b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#001cd5" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #001cd5">, = several </font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica"><b>white-rumped sandpipers</b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#001cd5" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #001cd5">, and perhaps 100+ </font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>semipalmated plovers</b></font><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#001cd5" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica; color: #001cd5">. No</font><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b> least = sandpipers</b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#001cd5"= style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #001cd5"> were noted, but = undoubtedly a few at least were present.</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"#001cd5" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #001cd5"><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" color=3D"#001cd5" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #001cd5">Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = ">_______________________________________________</div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">Nature mailing list</div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a = href=3D"mailto:Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">Nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a = href=3D"http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnatu= ralists.ca">http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidon= naturalists.ca</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-72--15608973--
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