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All: Yesterday, 29 Sept., I delivered son Andrew to Kentville, for a memorial bike ride, and took a little time on the way home for a birding at Grand Pré. I was surprised to see FIVE adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS in a roost of some 600 mostly Herring Gulls in the field at the west of the start of the Grand Pré Rd. Also of interest was a bunch of SAVANNAH SPARROWS and "MYRTLE WARBLERS", perhaps 30-40 of each, in the large Bayberry patch on the dyke at the end of the E. Long Island Rd. The warblers were restless, and were leaving the patch and flying across the estuary towards Kempt Shore. Some of the Savannahs seemed rather heavily marked. I wonder if they had collectively arrived overnight from boreal Quebec, where both are common breeders. This morning, Sept. 30, I went out to the usual hotspots along the W. shore of Halifax Hbr. The Portuguese Cove shore Rd. and Duncans Cove were not particularly lively, but along the length of the Sandy Cove shore, there were numbers of migrants, including a dozen CEDAR WAXWINGS, a m. PURPLE FINCH, 5+ COM. YELLOWTHROATS, 3 "MYRTLE" WARBLERS, a N. WATERTHRUSH and, best of all, a nice adult male(?) PRAIRIE WARBLER". Didn't linger long enough to lure out all possibilities. Cheers, Ian Ian McLaren
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