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Hi All, Its 3:30 am Monday morning and Dad and I have just returned from birding parts of Digby & Yarmouth Counties. I'm too wired to sleep so I figure I might as well do a posting. In 5 hours of birding today we found 30 Black Skimmers, 5 Gull-billed Terns, 4 Royal Terns, 2 Sandwich Terns, 1 Forester's Tern and like Ronny & Alix - who were birding many of the same areas as we were - to many Laughing Gulls to count.
All the way to Yarmouth there were Laughing Gulls on the shorelines. Laughing Gulls out over the waves. Laughing Gulls on the beaches following people around begging for potato chips. We even had two flocks of Laughing Gulls roosting in a field.
For us, one of the best locations was Mavilette Beach. There in one flock of very obliging birds there were 22 Black Skimmers, 3 Gull-billed Terns, and 1 Foresters Tern. All were posing nicely on a river sandbar across from one the entrances to Mavilette Beach and behind them in salt-marsh a 4th Gull-billed Tern was flying around.
At Salmon River we missed their Black Skimmer but did see their Gull-billed Tern along with 3 more Laughing Gulls.
At Pembroke Beach we got our first Royal Tern and of course more Laughing Gulls.
Between Overton and Yarmouth Bar we added 7 Black Skimmers and 2 Sandwich Terns. The first Sandwich Tern was at scope distance, sitting on some wooden posts in Yarmouth Harbour. However the second was a very close, stunning plumaged bird on the shoreline just before Yarmouth Bar.
Just past the bar and the long cement wall, at the big bend in the road there is a popular pull-over for scanning the ocean. There we watched 3 more Royal Terns repeatedly diving into the surf like miniature Gannets.
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