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--Apple-Mail=_3CAA7A20-B653-41A3-87BE-1577B7287061 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Begin forwarded message: > From: Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Subject: 35 sh-b dowitchers etc. at Windsor sewage ponds Aug. 30/16 > Date: September 1, 2016 at 2:00:18 PM ADT > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca>, Jim Wolford = <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> >=20 > AUG. 30, 2016 - I drove to Windsor to check out the sewage ponds, = especially for shorebirds, during the noon-hour or high-tide period. >=20 > I was about to leave without seeing any shorebirds, but a check on the = water=92s edge below the bank to the left when viewing from the road = revealed a nice tight flock of what I think were 35 short-billed = dowitchers, mostly inactive and in roosting mode. I hope someone else = can get there to check these out at high tide for confirmation. I = viewed them by resting my scope on the fence surrounding the facility. >=20 > Other species and numbers seen today were 2 juvenile great blue = herons, 120+ ring-billed gulls, about 10 herring gulls, about 5 great = black-backed gulls, and 12 black ducks, . No other shorebirds were = seen. >=20 > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. --Apple-Mail=_3CAA7A20-B653-41A3-87BE-1577B7287061 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>35 sh-b = dowitchers etc. at Windsor sewage ponds Aug. = 30/16</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 1, 2016 at = 2:00:18 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>>, 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; font-size: 13px; = font-family: Arial;"><b>AUG. 30, 2016</b> - I drove to <b>Windsor</b> to = check out the <b>sewage ponds</b>, especially for shorebirds, during the = noon-hour or high-tide period.</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;">I was about = to leave without seeing any shorebirds, but a check on the water=92s = edge below the bank to the left when viewing from the road revealed a = nice tight flock of what I think were<b> 35 short-billed dowitchers</b>, = mostly inactive and in roosting mode. I hope someone else can get = there to check these out at high tide for confirmation. I viewed = them by resting my scope on the fence surrounding the = facility.</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;">Other species and numbers seen = today were 2 juvenile <b>great blue herons</b>, 120+ <b>ring-billed = gulls</b>, about 10<b> herring gulls</b>, about 5 <b>great black-backed = gulls, </b>and 12 <b>black ducks</b>, . No other shorebirds were = seen.</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></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail=_3CAA7A20-B653-41A3-87BE-1577B7287061--
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