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--=====================_252233781==.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 27 November 2010 We hiked the Prospect Barrens, HRM, just before noon today, and I spent 30 minutes doing a sea-watch from Fantome Rock, which lies 1 km north of Prospect High Head. I concentrated first on looking for Harlequin Ducks, and eventually counted nearly 50, some feeding alongside a raft of eider. The biggest surprise was a Dovekie which flew south close by the shoreline, followed 10 minutes later by a murre sp. that did the same from somewhat further out. Here are my seawatch results: American Black Duck - 10 Common Eider - 80 Harlequin Duck - 49 Long-tailed Duck - 5 Red-breasted Merganser - 1 Common Loon - 6 Northern Gannet - 6 Double-crested Cormorant - 1 Great Cormorant - 3 Herring Gull - 20 Iceland Gull - 1 Great Black-backed Gull - 1 Dovekie - 1 murre sp. - 1 Black Guillemot - 2 On our way home we did a quick check of the Head of Prospect Bay, and saw the adult Lesser Black-backed Gull, back for its third winter. And at our home feeders there were still plenty of Pine Siskins and goldfinches. This would have been a good start to a winter list. Good birding, Blake ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Blake Maybank maybank@ns.sympatico.ca 902-852-2077 Editor, "Nova Scotia Birds" http://nsbs.chebucto.org Organiser, Maritimes Nature Travel Club http://tinyurl.com/naturetravel author, "Birding Sites of Nova Scotia" http://tinyurl.com/birdingns Downloadable Nova Scotia Maps for inside front and back covers: http://tinyurl.com/mr627d White's Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada --=====================_252233781==.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" <html> <body> <font face="Times New Roman, Times">27 November 2010<br><br> We hiked the Prospect Barrens, HRM, just before noon today, and I spent 30 minutes doing a sea-watch from Fantome Rock, which lies 1 km north of Prospect High Head. I concentrated first on looking for <b>Harlequin Ducks,</b> and eventually counted nearly 50, some feeding alongside a raft of eider. The biggest surprise was a <b>Dovekie </b>which flew south close by the shoreline, followed 10 minutes later by a murre sp. that did the same from somewhat further out. <br><br> Here are my seawatch results:<br><br> American Black Duck - 10<br> Common Eider - 80<br> <b>Harlequin Duck - 49<br> </b>Long-tailed Duck - 5<br> Red-breasted Merganser - 1<br> Common Loon - 6<br> Northern Gannet - 6<br> Double-crested Cormorant - 1<br> Great Cormorant - 3<br> Herring Gull - 20<br> Iceland Gull - 1<br> Great Black-backed Gull - 1<br> <b>Dovekie - 1<br> </b>murre sp. - 1<br> Black Guillemot - 2<br><br> On our way home we did a quick check of the Head of Prospect Bay, and saw the adult <b>Lesser Black-backed Gull,</b> back for its third winter.<br><br> And at our home feeders there were still plenty of Pine Siskins and goldfinches. This would have been a good start to a winter list.<br><br> <br> Good birding,<br><br> Blake<br><br> </font><x-sigsep><p></x-sigsep> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------<br> Blake Maybank<br> maybank@ns.sympatico.ca<br> 902-852-2077<br><br> Editor, "Nova Scotia Birds"<br> <a href="http://nsbs.chebucto.org/" eudora="autourl"> http://nsbs.chebucto.org<br><br> </a>Organiser, Maritimes Nature Travel Club<br> <font color="#0000FF"><u> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/naturetravel" eudora="autourl"> http://tinyurl.com/naturetravel</a></u></font> <br><br> author, "Birding Sites of Nova Scotia"<br> <font color="#0000FF"><u> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/birdingns" eudora="autourl"> http://tinyurl.com/birdingns<br> </a></u></font>Downloadable Nova Scotia Maps for inside front and back covers:<br> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/mr627d" eudora="autourl"> http://tinyurl.com/mr627d</a> <br><br> White's Lake, Nova Scotia, Canada </body> </html> --=====================_252233781==.ALT--
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