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Pat McKay and I covered our usual area around Porter's Lake and Three Fathom Harbour yesterday. Like Judy in Kings County, we found that the wind was strong and conditions were damply chilling, even though the rain stopped as soon as we arrived in the morning and didn't start up again until a few minutes after we finished in the afternoon. Fortunately, we did come equipped with gloves, as they were needed! The wind made for poor listening conditions, and the cool weather seemed to have slowed migration in this area. We found only half of last year's total numbers for almost all the land bird species, and only four warbler species in total (we usually have about 7 warbler species on this route). We had no vireos or kinglets at all. There was less fog at the coast than last year, however, so our totals of gulls and cormorants more than doubled. We had some sightings that we'll remember with pleasure - a group of 5 Hermit Thrush that popped out of dense spruces to a pish, and looked us over before popping back in again; a mixed flock of Tree and Barn Swallows hawking for insects over a small pond by Porter's Lake; and a lingering Snowy Owl in Three Fathom Harbour, that we've been watching all winter and appeared to give us perhaps a final look. I hope that others enjoyed their day of birding as much as we did. Cheers, Susann Myers -------------------------------------------------- From: "Judy Tufts" <tandove@ns.sympatico.ca> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2014 10:59 PM To: "NatureNS" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Subject: [NatureNS] Hummingbird on North Mtn (Arlington) May 10 > NS Migration Count day:: > > Just received a message from Cari Patterson that she and her partner saw a > hummingbird at 9:00 a.m. this morning at their feeder at 2283 Gospel Woods > Rd, Arlington, Kings Co. - just in time for the NSMCount. > > > I don't know how it was in other quarters for NSMC participants today but > around Wolfville/ Kentville the wind was strong, raw and biting.brrr. I > wished I had brought along some gloves. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Judy Tufts > > > > > > > >>>>>>>>>>> > > Judy Tufts > > Wolfville > > <<<<<<<<<< > > > >
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