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--Apple-Mail=_7E9DAD0C-9AC7-4C34-BAC0-63624CB4E16B Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Begin forwarded message: > From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Subject: [ValleyNature] <1000 shorebirds, Sept. 4/14, east Evangeline = Beach > Date: September 5, 2014 at 12:28:57 PM ADT > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca>, John Owen = <john.owen@ns.sympatico.ca>, Sue Abbott <sabbott@bsc-eoc.org>, Sherman = Boates <boatesjs@gov.ns.ca> > Cc: Roy Bishop <rlb@eastlink.ca>, "Donald Sam >" <SAMDX@gov.ns.ca>, = Julie Paquet <Julie.Paquet@ec.gc.ca> >=20 > SEPT. 4, 2014 - EVANGELINE BEACH =97 daytime high tide was 08:48 a.m. = with an amplitude of 10.2 metres =97 sunny with very bright light, warm, = and nice breeze from west to east along shore =97 my = shorebird-monitoring walk started late at 11 a.m., more than two hours = after high tide, and as usual I walked east from the public steps at the = main parking lot (canteen/motel) =97 > 11:10 a.m. - one immature bald eagle flushed from shore trees and flew = eastward; at 11:20 a.m. two more bald eagles flushed and flew eastward = (one adult, one immature); at the same time, at the eastern end of the = cottages, 750 peeps were foraging near the ebbing water edge and = occupying about 200 metres of shoreline; some of the peeps were = gradually moving westward along the shore by flying short distances and = re-landing to continue foraging; at 11:40 I reached the east end of the = trees and beach, and no more peeps were seen; then I walked back to the = car, arriving there at 12:10 p.m.; I saw only a single =93sea mop=94 of = egg-sacs of a long-finned or Peale=92s squid (and this mop was very = small and at least a few days old and drying up). =20 >=20 > Thus today I saw less than a thousand small shorebirds in total. = However, I was so late in terms of the high tide that I probably missed = some small flocks or more that were flying earlier and probably headed = westward toward the mouth of the Cornwallis River with lots of exposed = mudflats. >=20 > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. >=20 > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > = http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnaturalists.= ca --Apple-Mail=_7E9DAD0C-9AC7-4C34-BAC0-63624CB4E16B Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html = charset=3Dwindows-1252"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: = after-white-space;"><br><div style=3D""><br><div>Begin forwarded = message:</div><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Jim Wolford <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>><br><= /span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>[ValleyNature] = <1000 shorebirds, Sept. 4/14, east Evangeline = Beach</b><br></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">September 5, 2014 at = 12:28:57 PM ADT<br></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Nature BNS <<a = href=3D"mailto:nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a>>, John Owen <<a = href=3D"mailto:john.owen@ns.sympatico.ca">john.owen@ns.sympatico.ca</a>>= ;, Sue Abbott <<a = href=3D"mailto:sabbott@bsc-eoc.org">sabbott@bsc-eoc.org</a>>, Sherman = Boates <<a = href=3D"mailto:boatesjs@gov.ns.ca">boatesjs@gov.ns.ca</a>><br></span></= div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; = color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Cc: </b></span><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Roy Bishop <<a = href=3D"mailto:rlb@eastlink.ca">rlb@eastlink.ca</a>>, "Donald Sam = >" <SAMDX@gov.ns.ca>, = Julie Paquet <<a = href=3D"mailto:Julie.Paquet@ec.gc.ca">Julie.Paquet@ec.gc.ca</a>><br></s= pan></div><br><div><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html = charset=3Dwindows-1252"><div style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div = style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial;"><b>SEPT. 4, = 2014 - EVANGELINE BEACH</b> =97 daytime high tide was 08:48 a.m. with an = amplitude of 10.2 metres =97 sunny with very bright light, warm, and = nice breeze from west to east along shore =97 my shorebird-monitoring = walk started late at 11 a.m., more than two hours after high tide, and = as usual I walked east from the public steps at the main parking lot = (canteen/motel) =97</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; = font-family: Arial;">11:10 a.m. - one immature <b>bald eagle</b> flushed = from shore trees and flew eastward; at 11:20 a.m. two more <b>bald = eagles</b> flushed and flew eastward (one adult, one immature); at the = same time, at the eastern end of the cottages,<b> 750 peeps</b> were = foraging near the ebbing water edge and occupying about 200 metres of = shoreline; some of the peeps were gradually moving westward along the = shore by flying short distances and re-landing to continue foraging; at = 11:40 I reached the east end of the trees and beach, and no more peeps = were seen; then I walked back to the car, arriving there at 12:10 p.m.; = I saw<b> only a single =93sea mop=94 of egg-sacs of a long-finned or = Peale=92s squid</b> (and this mop was very small and at least a few days = old and drying up). </div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: = 13px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 15px;"><br></div><div = style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: Arial;"><b>Thus = today I saw less than a thousand small shorebirds in total. = However, </b>I was so late in terms of the high tide that I probably = missed some small flocks or more that were flying earlier and probably = headed westward toward the mouth of the Cornwallis River with lots of = exposed mudflats.</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; = font-family: Arial;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; font-size: = 13px; font-family: Arial;">Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville.</div><div><br></div></div>_____________________________________= __________<br>Nature mailing list<br><a = href=3D"mailto:Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">Nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a><br>http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnat= uralists.ca<br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_7E9DAD0C-9AC7-4C34-BAC0-63624CB4E16B--
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