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<DIV style=3D"MIN-HEIGHT: 14px=3B MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px=3B At Fuller's Bridge in Richmond County today, there was also a flock of peeps on the flats, a couple of hundred, probably 90% semi-palmated plovers, but a few least and sem-pal sandpipers as well. Also working the flats were a a couple of dozen G. Yellowlegs and at least 2 L. Yellowlegs, with 10 Willets. (don't know if they were E. or W., no binoculars) Lots of clams! Billy > Gayle, thanks for the question and education re Facebook, about which > I am totally ignorant (and intend to continue that ignorance). I use > "peep" to refer to unspecified small shorebirds, i.e., sandpipers and > plovers up to the sizes of semipalmated plovers and white-rumped or > Baird's sandpipers. It's just a convenient word for flocks of > possibly mixed species of shorebirds smaller than dowitchers or > pectoral sandpipers or black-bellied plovers etc. > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: duartess@ns.sympatico.ca >> Date: July 24, 2011 6:01:02 PM ADT >> To: jimwolford@eastlink.ca >> Cc: duartess@ns.sympatico.ca >> Subject: 'Peeps'? >> >> Hello Jim, >> >> I always enjoy read your interesting nature & birding updates on >> the NatureNS site, but, is the term 'Peeps' an acronym for a >> certain species of birds? >> >> More recently (& maybe you were aware, anyway), the term 'peeps' >> now, also refers to Facebook members & their friends. >> >> I know, 'the times, they are 'a changin'... >> >> Thanks Jim! >> >> Gayle MacLean >> Dartmouth > >> ---- "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> wrote: >>> JULY 24, 2011 - High tide this morning was 8:03 a.m., according to >>> Blomidon Nat. Soc. calendar. As the tide ebbed from 9:45 to 10:45 >>> a.m. Pat Hawes and I walked the east end of Evangeline Beach to look >>> for shorebirds/peeps, from the break in the woods that formerly was a >>> boat launch site to the east end of the woods, well west of The >>> Guzzle at the east end (northeasterly point of Grand Pre and Long >>> Island). >>> >>> Because today's high tide was a very low high (only 8.7 metres of >>> amplitude), the tide was quite far out when we arrived, and >>> immediately we saw flying flocks of peeps. As usual, nearly all the >>> flocks were flying from the east (from where?) toward the west, >>> although some of the flocks turned back toward the east in flight >>> before reversing and heading east again. Such makes it impossible to >>> keep track of how many total birds there are and what individual >>> flocks are doing, especially when they land among a feeding flock >>> along the shore. >>> >>> Today there was no accumulation of peeps on the shore at the east end >>> of the beach. Rather, the early flocks started landing at the >>> water's edge at and just east of Jean Merk's home, and then the >>> feeding flocks attracted later-arriving flying flocks from the east. >>> >>> I can only guess at the total number of peeps seen today, probably at >>> least 3000 -- 1500 were feeding in that spot mentioned above, but >>> flocks were always coming and going from there (to where? mostly to >>> the west? or across to Starr's Point?). >>> >>> We also saw 4 bald eagles (2 adults and 2 dark immatures -- quite >>> possibly a family?), plus several gulls and cormorants. No falcons >>> seen, but we bet there are some in the area, both merlins and >>> peregrines. >>> >>> Cheers from Jim in Wolfville > >
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