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Index of Subjects --000e0cd5742e467a4304a8f7835f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi Joyce, I coordinate a conservation program for Piping Plovers in NS and I'd be very interested in checking out your photos of the carcass. You can email me at nsplovers@gmail.com. Thanks, Sue Abbott Bird Studies Canada On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Joyce Norris <whuzzy@ns.sympatico.ca>wrote: > I went on a South Shore trip this weekend and by the time I got to CSI late > Saturday afternoon the fog and haze abated and I enjoyed a nice leisurely > visit there > > Found something unusual as I was going back to the entry pathway on > Daniel's Head Beach not far from the marked plover nesting area - a circular > mass of feathers, attached at their origin along a "spine" ( not a > verterbral column - I mean the main point where the base of the larger, > outer feathers would join, as if covering a backbone). There were areas or > pale brown and a bit of gray, but mostly white. There was no tissue, no > bloody marks, no wings, nothing skeletal, nothing decomposing. Other than > sand on it, it is literally pristine. Happened to have a clean ziploc bag > with me and picked it up. It was up on the beach well away from the water > and only a few feet in front of the dunes which run along the back of that > part of beach where the plover nesting area is marked > > Should someone try to ID this to see if it was a plover as it was found > near a marked area? I have pics of it that I can email. I certainly have > nowhere near the knowledge of birds others here do but I have never come > across anything like this before on a beach or anywhere else > > I am in Windsor and go to Hfx frequently, Valley and South Shore > occasionally so I can easily take it somewhere > > I went to the sunken forest and ran into one of the locals and told him > what I found and he mentioned a mink farm in the area (???) and he said he > thought some had escaped and wondered if one might have gotten a plover. Who > knows if one is related to the other? I have no idea. I am here to learn - I > get to CSI maybe once a year so my knowledge is pretty limited. > > Thx > Joyce > > --000e0cd5742e467a4304a8f7835f Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Joyce,<br><br>I coordinate a conservation program for Piping Plovers in = NS and I'd be very interested in checking out your photos of the carcas= s.=A0 You can email me at <a href=3D"mailto:nsplovers@gmail.com">nsplovers@= gmail.com</a>.<br> <br>Thanks,<br>Sue Abbott<br>Bird Studies Canada<br><br><div class=3D"gmail= _quote">On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Joyce Norris <span dir=3D"ltr"><= ;whuzzy@ns.sympatico.ca></= span> wrote:<br> <blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1p= x #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">I went on a South Shore trip this weekend a= nd by the time I got to CSI late Saturday afternoon the fog and haze abated= and I enjoyed a nice leisurely visit there<br> <br> Found something unusual as I was going back to the entry pathway on Daniel&= #39;s Head Beach not far from the marked plover nesting area - a circular m= ass of feathers, attached at their origin along a "spine" ( not a= verterbral column - I mean the main point where the base of the larger, ou= ter feathers would join, as if covering a backbone). There were areas or pa= le brown and a bit of gray, but mostly white. There was no tissue, no blood= y marks, no wings, nothing skeletal, nothing decomposing. Other than sand o= n it, it is literally pristine. Happened to have a clean ziploc bag with me= and picked it up. It was up on the beach well away from the water and only= a few feet in front of the dunes which run along the back of that part of = beach where the plover nesting area is marked<br> <br> Should someone try to ID this to see if it was a plover as it was found nea= r a marked area? I have pics of it that I can email. I certainly have nowhe= re near the knowledge of birds others here do but I have never come across = anything like this before on a beach or anywhere else<br> <br> I am in Windsor and go to Hfx frequently, Valley and South Shore occasional= ly so I can easily take it somewhere<br> <br> I went to the sunken forest and ran into one of the locals and told him wha= t I found and he mentioned a mink farm in the area (???) and he said he tho= ught some had escaped and wondered if one might have gotten a plover. Who k= nows if one is related to the other? I have no idea. I am here to learn - I= get to CSI maybe once a year so my knowledge is pretty limited.<br> <br> Thx<br><font color=3D"#888888"> Joyce <br> <br> </font></blockquote></div><br> --000e0cd5742e467a4304a8f7835f--
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