[NatureNS] 50th annual Kingston Xmas Bird Count - 23 December 2018

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Hi Wayne,
I plan to take part in the day's counting, but we have a family invitation
for that evening, so I may have to get my list to you before you do the
formal count at the get-together, somehow.

Richard

On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 3:49 PM Wayne P. Neily <Neilyornis@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> The 50th annual Kingston, NS, Christmas Bird Count (XBC) will be held
> Saturday, December 23.  Most of our regular observers have been notified of
> this already and will get more details as soon as these are prepared.
> There is still room for more keen birders if you want to join this historic
> effort and a great chance for a few young or beginning birders to get out
> with more experienced ones.
>
>  The 12-km radius circle, centred at Bridge and Main in Kingston, extends
> from Aylesford to Lower Middleton, and from Margaretsville to South
> Tremont.
>
>  Anyone with a bird feeder living in that area can help by observing for
> all or part of that day (especially if your feeder is not visible from the
> road) and by notifying the compiler in advance if you have any uncommon or
> unknown species coming to it.
>
>  Contact Wayne Neily ASAP so that we can assure no duplication of counts -
> Neilyornis@hotmail.com or 902-765-2455.  We usually have about 100
> observers, so do not wait to be called; I am getting older and slower, and
> may not have time to call you.  I need to get confirmation of your
> intention to observe that day by the 18th, so that maps showing what
> feeders are being observed can get to the field party leaders on time.
>
>
> While most of you will have heard that this is the 118th XBC overall, from
> the first one in 1900 organized by Frank Chapman and published in
> *Bird-Lore*, the predecessor of *Audubon*, this one makes me reflect on
> the count's history in NS.  Fifty years seems like a long run for us,
> with our start in 1968, but I realize that some have had longer runs
> here - indeed, my first one was in 1964, when Peter Smith and I walked up
> from Acadia onto the Ridge in the Wolfville count, which likely has the
> longest database, having been started by Robie Tufts in 1915, although some
> later years were missed.
>
>
> Only one count from the Maritimes was run in 1900, William Moore's Scotch
> Lake, NB, one, and there were no more here until 1913, when Chesley Allen
> and Harrison Lewis organized the first NS count at Yarmouth.  It was
> closely followed by Wolfville, but there were no others established until
> 1942, when Robie's brother Harold Tufts started the Port Mouton one.
>
>  Fourth in NS was Windsor, started in 1943 by J. C. & R. Morrow, and
> called West Hants in recent years.
>
>  Fifth was Halifax, organized by Willet Mills in 1944, later called
> Halifax (west), which might have the longest run of comparable data, if it
> had not been for the tragic decision about 25 years ago to combine the two
> Halifax counts.
>
> Sixth was the first Cape Breton Island one, Port Hood, established by
> Austin Cameron in 1945, and those were all until the 1950s.
>
> Harrison Lewis returned to NS in 1952, and started the 7th, Sable River,
> later called West Middle Sable.
>
> Fourteen more valid count areas were established between 1955 and 1960
> (plus five that overlapped earlier ones), thanks to the founding of the
> Nova Scotia Bird Society, but those must await another note.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne Neily
>
> Tremont, NS
>
>
>
> --
Richard stern
sternrichard@gmail.com
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<font size=3D"3">Anyone with a bird feeder living in that area can help by =
observing for all or part of that day (especially if your feeder is not vis=
ible from the road) and by notifying the
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nis@hotmail.com" target=3D"_blank">Neilyornis@hotmail.com</a> or 902-765-24=
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