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--Boundary_(ID_Mu/s/PuDbwXp1AuEpPOD0Q) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT AUGUST 12, 2011 - Daytime high tide 12:21 p.m. (amplitude 10.9 metres, another relatively low high). I arrived at the Evangeline Beach canteen/motel area 1.5 hrs. before high tide (BHT). I was hoping for a show of flying and roosting shorebirds there, but I was either too late or in the wrong place or both. There were no peeps to be seen at all. I checked on the eastern end of the beach at two places: there were none to be seen from Jean Merks' home; and at The Guzzle at the far east end of Long Island, only a few small flying flocks and less than 100 peeps were seen, plus the usual approximately 8 fishers for striped bass (one small one was caught while I was there). Three identified peeps were least sandpipers. Also present were a few juvenile gulls, mostly great black-backed. Also at The Guzzle I saw only 4 total butterflies, all different but only 1 of each: cabbage white, clouded or common sulfur, common wood nymph, and a black swallowtail. Also present and common were "Carolina locust" grasshoppers (large and noisy when they fly). Sheila McCurdy and others were just launching a kayak to go to Boot Island at high tide, and she promised a report about birds seen there. Back to Wolfville for a walk on the main dyke toward Grand Pre at high tide. In Wolfville Harbour roosting on the rocks along the railroad tracks were 3 willets and 15 greater yellowlegs. I walked out to the Wolfville sewage ponds, where I saw a single black-bellied plover and a single peep on the shore rocks. Along the main dyke were just a few more butterflies: just one or two each of cabbage whites and clouded sulfurs, and a single larger butterfly that showed some orange (perhaps one of the ladies?). Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. --Boundary_(ID_Mu/s/PuDbwXp1AuEpPOD0Q) Content-type: text/html; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>AUGUST = 12, 2011 </b>- Daytime <b>high tide 12:21 p.m.</b> (amplitude 10.9 = metres, another relatively low high). I arrived at the = <b>Evangeline Beach canteen/motel area</b> 1.5 hrs. before high tide = (BHT). I was hoping for a show of flying and roosting shorebirds = there, but I was either too late or in the wrong place or both. = There were <b>no peeps</b> to be seen at all. </font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">I checked = on the <b>eastern end of the beach</b> at two places: there were none to = be seen from Jean Merks' home; and at The Guzzle at the far east end of = Long Island, only a few small flying flocks and<b> less than 100 = peeps</b> were seen, plus the usual approximately 8 fishers for striped = bass (one small one was caught while I was there). Three = identified peeps were<b> least sandpipers</b>. Also present were a = few<b> juvenile gulls</b>, mostly great = black-backed. </font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">Also at The Guzzle I saw only 4 total = <b>butterflies</b>, all different but only 1 of each: <b>cabbage = white</b>, <b>clouded or common sulfur</b>, <b>common wood nymph</b>, = and a <b>black swallowtail</b>. Also present and common were = <b>"Carolina locust" grasshoppers</b> (large and noisy when they = fly). </font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Sheila McCurdy</b> and others were just launching a = kayak to go to <b>Boot Island</b> at high tide, and she promised a = report about birds seen there.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: = normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; = "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Back to Wolfville for a walk = on the main dyke toward Grand Pre at high tide. In <b>Wolfville = Harbour </b>roosting on the rocks along the railroad tracks were 3 = <b>willets</b> and 15 <b>greater yellowlegs</b>. I walked out to = the Wolfville sewage ponds, where I saw a single <b>black-bellied plover = </b>and a single <b>peep</b> on the shore rocks.</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Along the = main dyke were just a few more <b>butterflies</b>: just one or two each = of <b>cabbage whites</b> and <b>clouded sulfurs</b>, and a single larger = butterfly that showed some orange (perhaps one of the = ladies?).</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><br></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">Cheers from Jim in Wolfville.</font></div> </body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_Mu/s/PuDbwXp1AuEpPOD0Q)--
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