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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01D2DDF3.E981E040 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On this week-end I took a two-day drive from Kentville to = Digby...Yarmouth ....Liverpool....and home via new Ross. A wonderfully = photographic event but a wash-out as far as birds go. Sadly the places = en route that traditionally yielded good seabird sightings were bereft = of birds...no Loons....no Scoters...no long-tailed Ducks ( Oldsquaws ) = ...no Mergansers ...no Guillemots...etc. On June 3rd my Year to date total bird species was 77, Looking back = over the last 25 years at June 1st I have not reached 100 species for = the last five years ...previous to that I averaged 120 species at June = 1st for ten years , with a high of 154 in 2002.=20 Things are definitely looking sad. :( Andy =20 ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01D2DDF3.E981E040 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META name=3DGENERATOR content=3D"MSHTML 8.00.6001.23588"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV> <P style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=3DMsoNormal><STRONG><SPAN=20 style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> On this week-end I took a = two-day drive=20 from Kentville to Digby...<?xml:namespace prefix =3D st1 ns =3D=20 "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City=20 w:st=3D"on">Yarmouth</st1:City> ....<st1:place=20 w:st=3D"on">Liverpool</st1:place>....and home via new Ross. A = wonderfully=20 photographic event but a wash-out as far as birds go. Sadly the places = en route=20 that traditionally yielded good seabird sightings were bereft of = birds...no=20 Loons....no Scoters...no long-tailed Ducks ( Oldsquaws ) ...no = Mergansers ...no=20 Guillemots...etc.</SPAN></STRONG><?xml:namespace prefix =3D o ns =3D=20 "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></P> <P style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=3DMsoNormal><STRONG><SPAN=20 style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> On June 3rd my Year to = date total=20 bird species was 77, Looking back over the last 25 years at June = 1st I have=20 not reached 100 species for the last five years ...previous to that I = averaged=20 120 species at June 1st for ten years , with a high of 154 in 2002.=20 </SPAN></STRONG><o:p></o:p></P> <P style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=3DMsoNormal><STRONG><SPAN=20 style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial"> Things are definitely = looking sad.=20 :( Andy</SPAN></STRONG><o:p></o:p></P> <P style=3D"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"=20 class=3DMsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0007_01D2DDF3.E981E040--
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