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After leaving the group Dorothy Poole and I went back to Goose View Road. Just Before the stop sign when going back out the East Port L 'Herbert Road we had a warbler fly across and down into the ditch. We stopped and in the meantime it flew to the roadside opposite. I noticied it while we were debating whether it had been a palm, orange-crowned warbler, or otherwise. We had noticed a white flash to either side of the tail. Therefore that narrowed our options down to palm, pine, or blackpoll. We watched it gathering food and it was gitting a lot of some type of insect by the looks of things. We were able to see all of the characteristic features of the blackpoll warbler. The clincher distinguishing it from the pine was the feet which were yellowish. This bird had an injured right foot and it looked like a hand curled up with severe arthritis.
When going back through Port Joli I took a second take. On the lawn where two Canada geese had been on the shoreline when we went, now there was a Canada Goose and a Richardson's Cackling Goose. The size comparison was signifiable. The lighting was poor, but I sent photos to Eric and Ian to look at. Lighting was bad and my camera is not one that is good in poor light, and as well my batteries went dead and I had forgotten as spare set. I've brightened it to the best that my software allows.
Other notes were that most of the loons were feeding on crabs. I'm told that over 220 000 green crabs were removed from the bay which they estimate to be half only of what was present.
The winter wren scolded us only and we did not see it. It scolded us long and loudly. I had a winter wren do the same thing to me in Ontario when I was visiting. That bird I got to see. The wren was scolding as I drew out five black-capped chickadees, three boreal chickadees, and five golden-crowned kinglets. This was after hearing crossbills in flight. The location was at the end of the end of the East Port L'Hebert Road, on foot and just before we broke out onto the ocean.
Location: Port Joli
Observation date: 11/27/10
Number of species: 4
Cackling Goose (Richardson's) 1
Canada Goose 1
American Black Duck 1
Black-capped Chickadee 2
Location: Thomas Radall/Sand Bay/East Port L'Hebert
Observation date: 11/27/10
Notes: Crossbill sp also heard, likely red.
Number of species: 29
Canada Goose 330
American Black Duck 23
Common Eider 12
Surf Scoter 7
White-winged Scoter 2
Black Scoter 16
Bufflehead 32
Common Goldeneye 1
Hooded Merganser 1
Red-breasted Merganser 19
Common Loon 9
Horned Grebe 2
Red-necked Grebe 7
Double-crested Cormorant 1
Bald Eagle 1
Herring Gull 35
Great Black-backed Gull 3
Black Guillemot 2
Mourning Dove 2
Belted Kingfisher 1
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 4
Black-capped Chickadee 9
Boreal Chickadee 3
Brown Creeper 1
Winter Wren 1
Golden-crowned Kinglet 10
Blackpoll Warbler 1
Snow Bunting 20
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After leaving the group Dorothy Poole and I went back to Goose View Road. Just Before the stop sign when going back out the East Port L 'Herbert Road we had a warbler fly across and down into the ditch. We stopped and in the meantime it flew to the roadside opposite. I noticied it while we were debating whether it had been a palm, orange-crowned warbler, or otherwise. We had noticed a white flash to either side of the tail. Therefore that narrowed our options down to palm, pine, or blackpoll. We watched it gathering food and it was gitting a lot of some type of insect by the looks of things. We were able to see all of the characteristic features of the blackpoll warbler. The clincher distinguishing it from the pine was the feet which were yellowish. This bird had an injured right foot and it looked like a hand curled up with severe arthritis.
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When going back through Port Joli I took a second take. On the lawn where two Canada geese had been on the shoreline when we went, now there was a Canada Goose and a Richardson's Cackling Goose. The size comparison was signifiable. The lighting was poor, but I sent photos to Eric and Ian to look at. Lighting was bad and my camera is not one that is good in poor light, and as well my batteries went dead and I had forgotten as spare set. I've brightened it to the best that my software allows. <BR>
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Other notes were that most of the loons were feeding on crabs. I'm told that over 220 000 green crabs were removed from the bay which they estimate to be half only of what was present. <BR>
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The winter wren scolded us only and we did not see it. It scolded us long and loudly. I had a winter wren do the same thing to me in Ontario when I was visiting. That bird I got to see. The wren was scolding as I drew out five black-capped chickadees, three boreal chickadees, and five golden-crowned kinglets. This was after hearing crossbills in flight. The location was at the end of the end of the East Port L'Hebert Road, on foot and just before we broke out onto the ocean. <BR>
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Location: Port Joli<BR>Observation date: 11/27/10<BR>Number of species: 4<BR><BR>Cackling Goose (Richardson's) 1<BR>Canada Goose 1<BR>American Black Duck 1<BR>Black-capped Chickadee 2<BR>
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Location: Thomas Radall/Sand Bay/East Port L'Hebert<BR>Observation date: 11/27/10<BR>Notes: Crossbill sp also heard, likely red.<BR>
<BR>Number of species: 29<BR><BR>Canada Goose 330<BR>American Black Duck 23<BR>Common Eider 12<BR>Surf Scoter 7<BR>White-winged Scoter 2<BR>Black Scoter 16<BR>Bufflehead 32<BR>Common Goldeneye 1<BR>Hooded Merganser 1<BR>Red-breasted Merganser 19<BR>Common Loon 9<BR>Horned Grebe 2<BR>Red-necked Grebe 7<BR>Double-crested Cormorant 1<BR>Bald Eagle 1<BR>Herring Gull 35<BR>Great Black-backed Gull 3<BR>Black Guillemot 2<BR>Mourning Dove 2<BR>Belted Kingfisher 1<BR>Blue Jay 2<BR>American Crow 4<BR>Black-capped Chickadee 9<BR>Boreal Chickadee 3<BR>Brown Creeper 1<BR>Winter Wren 1<BR>Golden-crowned Kinglet 10<BR>Blackpoll Warbler 1<BR>Snow Bunting 20<BR><BR><FONT size=2>
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