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href=3D"mailto:rlb@eastlink.ca">rlb@eastlink.ca</A>&gt Thanks Rick. Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Whitman" <dendroica.caerulescens@gmail.com> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Monday, July 28, 2014 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [NatureNS] banded semipalmated sandpiper spotted, Evangeline Beach, etc. > Somewhat picky, to be sure, but Pete's vineyard is in Wallbrook, with > the hamlet of Melanson between there and Gaspereau. > > South Mountaineer > Rick Whitman > > On 7/28/14, Andy Dean <aadean@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: >> Last year semipal plovers were often feeding between the rows of vines at >> the Pete Lockett vineyards inland at Gaspereau. >> >> Andy Dean >> 86 Baden Powell drive, >> Kentville, N.S. >> B4N 5P5 >> >> (902) 678-6243 >> aadean@ns.sympatico.ca >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Jim Wolford >> To: naturens >> Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2014 5:18 PM >> Subject: [NatureNS] banded semipalmated sandpiper spotted, Evangeline >> Beach, etc. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Begin forwarded message: >> >> >> From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> >> >> Subject: [ValleyNature] banded semipalmated sandpiper spotted, >> Evangeline Beach, etc. >> >> Date: July 27, 2014 at 3:42:55 PM ADT >> >> To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> >> >> >> >> >> >> From: Roy Bishop <rlb@eastlink.ca> >> Date: July 27, 2014 at 12:47:40 PM ADT >> >> >> Hi Jim et al., >> >> >> Sunday morning, 11:25 a.m., July 27, 181 Plover Lane, Evangeline >> Beach. >> >> >> The tide is coming in, and sandpipers are numerous and active. >> Flocks >> of 200 to 2000 (rough guesses) are coming and going in front of my >> cottage. >> No peregrines in sight. >> >> >> In binoculars (15x, stabilized) I spotted one semi-palmated amongst >> a >> few hundred running over the sand that has a blue leg band. The band is >> rectangular, about an inch long and maybe 1/4 inch wide, and it is >> pointing >> forward. The bird was too far away to read what may have been on the >> band. >> >> >> Roy >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On 2014-07-23, at 6:05 PM, Rick & Janet Whitman wrote: >> >> >> Thanks Jim ! >> >> >> I think your numbers are solid. I had 120 Semipalmateds on Monday >> & >> Phil Taylor had 400 SESA yesterday, both at The Guzzle around high tide. >> I >> also had one Peregrine and it dispersed the birds, leading me to leave. >> >> >> I am coming to think that the Peregrines are changing Peep >> behaviour >> significantly. I know they are native and natural but it is approaching >> the >> point where they are ruining the experience for me. On Monday, the >> Peregrine >> had one peep separated from the flock & was gaining on it. Just when I >> thought the peep was lost, the Peregrine broke off & just circled around. >> I >> couldn't age the Peregrine but I felt it was just playing with the peep. >> >> >> On the way home I spotted a small flock of Semipalmated Plovers >> passing high tide in a plowed field in Melanson. This would be several km >> from the coast. >> >> >> Rick Whitman >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Nature mailing list >> Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca >> >> http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnaturalists.ca >> >> >> >
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