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--Apple-Mail=_17B9BDE1-9C0F-41AD-9FCF-0DE929CD98F2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Begin forwarded message: > From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Subject: [ValleyNature] 425 shorebirds/peeps, Evang. Beach, = no-see-ums, etc. > Date: July 28, 2015 at 1:18:13 AM ADT > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> >=20 > JULY 27, 2015 - Two days ago I got a second-hand message from Heather = MacDonald from Avonport Beach, saying =93The birds are back!=94, meaning = that flocks of shorebirds had been seen there. I haven=92t heard any = details yet on that. >=20 > EVANGELINE BEACH =97 high tide was 10 a.m., with a low amplitude of = 9.3 metres? =97 I walked east from the public stairs but got a late = start at 12:25 p.m., so the tide had already ebbed much further than I = like (my error)(my entire walk to end of beach and back took a bit more = than an hour) =97 overcast and muggy-warm, and it quickly was obvious = that NO-SEE-UMS were abundant and hungry =97 but visibility was pretty = good, compared with a bright sunny day =97 I found a few fresh clumps of = two seaweeds, knotted wrack (Ascophyllum) and dulse (Palmaria? is old = name), and fresh clumps of Flustra bryozoans, all of which would have = been at the low tide zone or subtidal (so there must have been some = recent big waves in the Minas Basin), but still no squid egg-sacs yet =97 = I saw three separate bald eagles (one adult flew out from the woods and = directly to displace an immature eagle that was perched on a rock near = the ebbing tide line (this is routine eagle behaviour that we see = year-round)) =97 1 dead adult double-crested cormorant on upper beach, = the first one I have ever seen along the beach =97 bunches of = peeps/small shorebirds seen were 10,100,15,175,100,100, which total up = to a maximum of 425 peeps (at high tide Rick Whitman saw 500 to 1000 = peeps along the Hortonville dyke, and some of mine might well have been = counted by Rick). >=20 > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. =20 >=20 > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > = http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnaturalists.= ca --Apple-Mail=_17B9BDE1-9C0F-41AD-9FCF-0DE929CD98F2 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><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] = 425 shorebirds/peeps, Evang. Beach, no-see-ums, = etc.</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';">July 28, 2015 at = 1:18:13 AM 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>><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>JULY 27, 2015 - = </b>Two days ago I got a second-hand message from Heather MacDonald from = <b>Avonport Beach</b>, saying =93The birds are back!=94, meaning that = flocks of <b>shorebirds</b> had been seen there. I haven=92t heard = any details yet on that.</div><div style=3D"margin: 0px; min-height: = 14px;"><b></b><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;"><b>EVANGELINE BEACH = </b>=97 high tide was 10 a.m., with a low amplitude of 9.3 metres? =97 I = walked <b>east from the public stairs</b> but got a late start at 12:25 = p.m., so the tide had already ebbed much further than I like (my = error)(my entire walk to end of beach and back took a bit more than an = hour) =97 overcast and muggy-warm, and it quickly was obvious that = <b>NO-SEE-UMS</b> were abundant and hungry =97 but visibility was pretty = good, compared with a bright sunny day =97 I found a few <b>fresh clumps = of two seaweeds</b>, knotted wrack (<i>Ascophyllum</i>) and dulse = (<i>Palmaria</i>? is old name), and fresh clumps of <i>Flustra</i> = <b>bryozoans</b>, all of which would have been at the low tide zone or = subtidal (so there must have been some recent big waves in the Minas = Basin), but still no squid egg-sacs yet =97 I saw three separate bald = eagles (one adult flew out from the woods and directly to displace an = immature eagle that was perched on a rock near the ebbing tide line = (this is routine eagle behaviour that we see year-round)) =97 1 dead = adult double-crested cormorant on upper beach, the first one I have ever = seen along the beach =97 bunches of peeps/small shorebirds seen were = 10,100,15,175,100,100, which <b>total up to a maximum of 425 peeps</b> = (at high tide Rick Whitman saw 500 to 1000 peeps along the Hortonville = dyke, and some of mine might well have been counted by Rick).</div><div = style=3D"margin: 0px;"><br></div><div style=3D"margin: 0px;">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=_17B9BDE1-9C0F-41AD-9FCF-0DE929CD98F2--
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