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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_A9KqGBtpnspMvGBwIGsnhg) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Ken McKenna Box 218 Stellarton NS B0K 1S0 902 752-7644 Hi all Spent yesterday, Sept. 3 birding on Big I. meeting up for a time with Ann Doull and a couple of european birders. It was quite warm, but for some reason, the mosquitoes were not in as full a force as they have been up to this point. We tallied just under 70 species and I will highlight a few with larger concentrations. I had my first migrant HORNED GREBE on the strait sight of the causeway. There were 70 Surf Scoters, 78 Green-winged Teal and 105 Common Mergansers. On the Strait in the morning were 175 Northern Gannet, a lot sitting on the water, but at times diving. There were a number of what looked like Grey Seals in that areas as well. There were 70 DC Cormorants and a lone Great Cormorant which appeared to be oiled on the belly and did not seem to want to fly away even when on-lookers approched it closer than I would expect a bird to tolerate. There were 20 Common Loons and I counted 20 Great Blue Heron, but likely missed some as there is usually more than that. There were 4 raptor species including a Merlin and a Broad-winged Hawk. The 13 species of shorebird are summarized at the end but the Golden Plover was seen in a ploughed field at high tide with a number of Black-bellys and Ring-billed Gulls. I noted 190 Bonaparte's Gulls but only 8 Common Terns which seems a little low for this area. Had only 7 warbler species with the numbers of Yellow-rumps increasing. A Chippping Sparrow was the only sparrow highlight. Black-bellied Plover 19 American Golden-Plover 1 Semipalmated Plover 103 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Greater Yellowlegs 13 Lesser Yellowlegs 17 Ruddy Turnstone 3 Red Knot 3 Sanderling 7 Semipalmated Sandpiper 120 Least Sandpiper 16 White-rumped Sandpiper 5 Short-billed Dowitcher 49 cheers ken --Boundary_(ID_A9KqGBtpnspMvGBwIGsnhg) Content-type: text/html; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.19120"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Ken McKenna<BR>Box 218 Stellarton NS<BR>B0K 1S0<BR>902 752-7644<BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Hi all</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Spent yesterday, Sept. 3 birding on Big I. meeting up for a time with Ann Doull and a couple of european birders. It was quite warm, but for some reason, the mosquitoes were not in as full a force as they have been up to this point. We tallied just under 70 species and I will highlight a few with larger concentrations. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I had my first migrant HORNED GREBE on the strait sight of the causeway. There were 70 Surf Scoters, 78 Green-winged Teal and 105 Common Mergansers. On the Strait in the morning were 175 Northern Gannet, a lot sitting on the water, but at times diving. There were a number of what looked like Grey Seals in that areas as well. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>There were 70 DC Cormorants and a lone Great Cormorant which appeared to be oiled on the belly and did not seem to want to fly away even when on-lookers approched it closer than I would expect a bird to tolerate. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>There were 20 Common Loons and I counted 20 Great Blue Heron, but likely missed some as there is usually more than that. There were 4 raptor species including a Merlin and a Broad-winged Hawk. The 13 species of shorebird are summarized at the end but the Golden Plover was seen in a ploughed field at high tide with a number of Black-bellys </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>and Ring-billed Gulls. I noted 190 Bonaparte's Gulls but only 8 Common Terns which seems a little low for this area.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Had only 7 warbler species with the numbers of Yellow-rumps increasing. A Chippping Sparrow was the only sparrow highlight. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Black-bellied Plover 19<BR>American Golden-Plover 1<BR>Semipalmated Plover 103<BR>Solitary Sandpiper 1<BR>Greater Yellowlegs 13<BR>Lesser Yellowlegs 17<BR>Ruddy Turnstone 3<BR>Red Knot 3<BR>Sanderling 7<BR>Semipalmated Sandpiper 120<BR>Least Sandpiper 16<BR>White-rumped Sandpiper 5<BR>Short-billed Dowitcher 49</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman"></FONT></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">cheers</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">ken</FONT></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML> --Boundary_(ID_A9KqGBtpnspMvGBwIGsnhg)--
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