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--Apple-Mail=_8CF9D072-5B51-4E40-93C8-7712667BD9D7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 > From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Subject: brief results for Feb. 8/15 EAGLES/RAPTORS COUNT for e. = King's Co. > Date: February 9, 2015 at 4:05:36 PM AST > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> > Cc: "Jim Wolford ." <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> >=20 > FEB. 8 (Sunday), 2015 - Today is our first attempt at the 34th Annual = Cyril K. Coldwell Count of Eagles/Raptors in Eastern King=92s County. = Weather conditions are nearly ideal, with continuing very cold = temperatures with significant wind-chills plus heaps and heaps of piled = up plowed snow along all roads (making some dykeland roads iffy to = impossible). Sky was brightly overcast, occasionally sunny, with super = visibility (except for the walls of snow). >=20 > This note is just a very brief summary of our results. Sixteen field = parties totalling 30 people covered designated areas for just one hour, = 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. (to minimize double-counting of individual raptors). >=20 > Bald eagles totalled 575, a near record number. BUT about 20 eagles = departed Hortonville early in the hour and flew toward Avonport across = the Gaspereau River, where that field party may have counted them. Thus = the true total would be perhaps 555. Of the ones pigeon-holed as to = adult vs. immature, 62% were adults, 38% immatures. >=20 > Other raptors encountered were 68 red-tailed hawks, 2 rough-legged = hawks (one light-phase, one dark), no harriers, no peregrine falcons, 2 = sharp-shinned hawks, 1 merlin, no short-eared owls, 1 barred owl = (Bernard Forsythe at dusk), and 1 probable snowy owl (seen by Malcolm = Miles near Hollow Brook Power House at Lumsden Reservoir, on a = power-pole in a cleared area of a big power line). >=20 > Other natural history observations included about 10 coyotes (ne. = dykelands at Grand Pre), 4 hooded mergansers, about 40 ravens (from just = one observer), 1 robin, 150 Bohemian waxwings, 20 horned larks, 80 snow = buntings. >=20 > Bald eagles were basically everywhere, but concentrations included 130 = south & east of Canning, 115 in Sheffield Mills area, 70 in Avonport = area, 60 at ne. dykelands of North Grand Pre to Hortonville, 50 west & = north of Port Williams. At 11:30 a.m. I noticed 20+ eagles being fed at = the corner of Church St. and Hwy. 358 (north of Pt. Wms.). >=20 > THANKS TO ALL PARTICIPANTS, who now can relax =97 our next count will = probably be about the same date in 2016. >=20 > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. --Apple-Mail=_8CF9D072-5B51-4E40-93C8-7712667BD9D7 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><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>brief results for = Feb. 8/15 EAGLES/RAPTORS COUNT for e. King's = Co.</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';">February 9, 2015 at = 4:05:36 PM AST<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>><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';">"Jim Wolford ." = <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>><br><= /span></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;"><b>FEB. 8 (Sunday), = 2015</b> - Today is our first attempt at the <b>34th Annual Cyril K. = Coldwell Count of Eagles/Raptors in Eastern King=92s County</b>. = Weather conditions are nearly ideal, with continuing very cold = temperatures with significant wind-chills plus heaps and heaps of piled = up plowed snow along all roads (making some dykeland roads iffy to = impossible). Sky was brightly overcast, occasionally sunny, with = super visibility (except for the walls of snow).</div><div = style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: = 0px;">This note is just a <b>very brief summary of our = results</b>. Sixteen field parties totalling 30 people covered = designated areas for just one hour, 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. (to minimize = double-counting of individual raptors).</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; = min-height: 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;"><b>Bald eagles = totalled 575</b>, a near record number. <b>BUT</b> about 20 eagles = departed Hortonville early in the hour and flew toward Avonport across = the Gaspereau River, where that field party may have counted them. = Thus the <b>true total would be perhaps 555</b>. Of the ones = pigeon-holed as to adult vs. immature, 62% were adults, 38% = immatures.</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: = 14px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;"><b>Other raptors = encountered</b> were 68 <b>red-tailed hawks</b>, 2 <b>rough-legged = hawks</b> (one light-phase, one dark), no harriers, no p