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--Boundary_(ID_edzoyWbfJIwr65jB3gpyNg) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Regarding the two yellowledgs species, I have added a bit from Wolfville Harbour as follows: Wolfville Harbour roosting shorebirds at high tide along rocks below railroad tracks: 2 willets, about 18 greater yellowlegs, about 7 lesser yellowlegs, 1 spotted sandpiper, 31 "peeps" including 30 semipalmated sandpipers and 1 least sandpiper. It was a great treat today to have great and close views of both greater and lesser yellowlegs together (with no camera, of course!), since I still find it difficult to diagnose these two species. Two features that help me with the greater yellowlegs are (1) their loud and repeated alarm notes, and (2) their tendency to wade into or land upon deep water and "swim" a bit, compared with the quieter and more shore-bound lesser yellowlegs. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville ------------------------- Begin forwarded message: > From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Date: September 12, 2011 5:54:58 PM ADT > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> > Subject: [ValleyNature] shorebirds etc., Windsor & Wolfville, Sept. > 11-12/11 > > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> >> Date: September 12, 2011 4:40:39 PM ADT >> To: NatureNS <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>, John and Janet Foster >> <fosterjj@hughes.net>, Dick Dekker <ddekker1@telus.net>, Julie >> Paquet <Julie.Paquet@ec.gc.ca>, Sherman Boates <boatesjs@gov.ns.ca> >> Subject: [NatureNS] shorebirds etc., Windsor & Wolfville, Sept. >> 11-12/11 >> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca >> >> SEPT. 11, 2011 - Pat and I drove up to Pete Luckett's Vineyards/ >> Winery on Wallbrook Mountain at high tide at 1 p.m., partly to >> look for roosting shorebirds in the young vineyard surrounding his >> signature red phone booth just south of the winery building -- >> gorgeous view of the countryside and Blomidon and Minas Basin -- >> but we saw absolutely no shorebirds there. We checked out the >> lunch menu and the wines for sale, too. >> >> Back home at our feeders I discovered a Norway rat (rats!). I >> haven't seen my chipmunk for the past few days, but I heard a red >> squirrel recently. >> >> SEPT. 12, 2011 - Pat got a surprise at home in Wolfville at about >> 7:30 a.m. when she checked our porch for the morning newspaper: a >> brazen still-foraging raccoon with a poor sense of time and daylight! >> >> Daytime high tide at 1:24 p.m. with a growing amplitude of 12.1 >> metres, partly thanks to the full Moon that was gorgeous yesterday >> evening as it rose over the mouth of the Cornwallis River, as >> witnessed from The Port Pub restaurant in Port Williams. >> >> I drove to Windsor 1.5 hrs. before high tide. On my way there >> from Wolfville, I noted about 15+ double-crested cormorants >> perched along the power line that spans the Gaspereau River just >> north of the Highway 101 bridge. These would be local cormorants >> that nest on Boot Island just east of The Guzzle at the east end >> of Long Island, northeast Grand Pre. And it's normal for them to >> sit on the power line over the high-tide period. Thus I was >> puzzled an hour later to see none perched there, but perhaps they >> had been somehow disturbed. >> >> I got to the Windsor sewage ponds an hour before high tide. The >> gate was closed; thus my numbers for various birds are minimal >> since I couldn't see anything at the north pond. But at the south >> pond were: 75+ black-bellied plovers, 1 imm. ruddy turnstone, 1 >> spotted sandpiper, 3 Canada geese, 7+ Am. wigeons, 80 black ducks, >> no mallards noticed but probably present in small numbers, 30+ >> herring gulls, 10+ great black-backed gulls, about 10 ring-billed >> gulls. >> >> Wolfville Harbour roosting shorebirds at high tide along rocks >> below railroad tracks: 2 willets, about 18 greater yellowlegs, >> about 7 lesser yellowlegs, 1 spotted sandpiper, 31 "peeps" >> including 30 semipalmated sandpipers and 1 least sandpiper. >> >> Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/ > nature_blomidonnaturalists.ca --Boundary_(ID_edzoyWbfJIwr65jB3gpyNg) 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; "> Regarding the two yellowledgs species, I have added a bit from Wolfville = Harbour as follows:<div><br></div><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>Wolfville Harbour roosting shorebirds </b>at high tide = along rocks below railroad tracks:<b> 2 willets, about 18 greater = yellowlegs, about 7 lesser yellowlegs, 1 spotted sandpiper, 31 "peeps" = including 30 semipalmated sandpipers and 1 least sandpiper</b>. It = was a great treat today to have great and close <b>views of both greater = and lesser yellowlegs together </b>(with no camera, of course!), since I = still find it difficult to diagnose these two species. Two = features that help me with the greater yellowlegs are (1) their loud and = repeated alarm notes, and (2) their tendency to wade into or land upon = deep water and "swim" a bit, compared with the quieter and more = shore-bound lesser yellowlegs.</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><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">-------------------------</font></div><div><br><div>Begin = forwarded message:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">"James W. Wolford" <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>></fon= t></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">September 12, 2011 5:54:58 PM = ADT</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Nature BNS <<a = href=3D"mailto:nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a>></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[ValleyNature] shorebirds etc., = Windsor & Wolfville, Sept. 11-12/11</b></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> = <br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">"James W. Wolford" <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>></fon= t></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">September 12, 2011 4:40:39 PM = ADT</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">NatureNS <<a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a>>, = John and Janet Foster <<a = href=3D"mailto:fosterjj@hughes.net">fosterjj@hughes.net</a>>, Dick = Dekker <<a = href=3D"mailto:ddekker1@telus.net">ddekker1@telus.net</a>>, Julie = Paquet <<a = href=3D"mailto:Julie.Paquet@ec.gc.ca">Julie.Paquet@ec.gc.ca</a>>, = Sherman Boates <<a = href=3D"mailto:boatesjs@gov.ns.ca">boatesjs@gov.ns.ca</a>></font></div>= <div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica"><b>[NatureNS] shorebirds etc., Windsor & Wolfville, Sept. = 11-12/11</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font>= </div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; 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>SEPT. 11, 2011</b> - Pat and I drove up to Pete<b> = Luckett's Vineyards/Winery </b>on Wallbrook Mountain at high tide at 1 = p.m., partly to look for roosting shorebirds in the young vineyard = surrounding his signature red phone booth just south of the winery = building -- gorgeous view of the countryside and Blomidon and Minas = Basin -- but we saw absolutely <b>no shorebirds</b> there. We = checked out the lunch menu and the wines for sale, too.</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 home = at our feeders I discovered a <b>Norway rat </b>(rats!). I haven't = seen my chipmunk for the past few days, but I heard a red squirrel = recently.</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>SEPT. 12, 2011</b> - Pat got a surprise at home in = Wolfville at about 7:30 a.m. when she checked our porch for the morning = newspaper: a brazen still-foraging <b>raccoon</b> with a poor sense of = time and daylight!</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">Daytime <b>high tide at 1:24 p.m. </b>with a growing = amplitude of 12.1 metres, partly thanks to the full Moon that was = gorgeous yesterday evening as it rose over the mouth of the Cornwallis = River, as witnessed from The Port Pub restaurant in Port Williams. = </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 drove <b>to Windsor</b> 1.5 hrs. before high = tide. On my way there from Wolfville, I noted about 15+ = <b>double-crested cormorants</b> perched along the power line that spans = the Gaspereau River just north of the Highway 101 bridge. These = would be local cormorants that nest on Boot Island just east of The = Guzzle at the east end of Long Island, northeast Grand Pre. = And it's normal for them to sit on the power line over the high-tide = period. Thus I was puzzled an hour later to see none perched = there, but perhaps they had been somehow disturbed.</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 got to = the<b> Windsor sewage ponds</b> an hour before high tide. The gate = was closed; thus my numbers for various birds are minimal since I = couldn't see anything at the north pond. But at the south pond = were: <b>75+ black-bellied plovers, 1 imm. ruddy turnstone, 1 spotted = sandpiper, 3 Canada geese, 7+ Am. wigeons, 80 black ducks, no mallards = noticed but probably present in small numbers, 30+ herring gulls, 10+ = great black-backed gulls, about 10 ring-billed = gulls.</b></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; "><b></b><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>Wolfville Harbour roosting shorebirds </b>at high = tide along rocks below railroad tracks:<b> 2 willets, about 18 greater = yellowlegs, about 7 lesser yellowlegs, 1 spotted sandpiper, 31 "peeps" = including 30 semipalmated sandpipers and 1 least = sandpiper</b>.</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> = </blockquote></div><br><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = ">_______________________________________________</div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">Nature mailing list</div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a = href=3D"mailto:Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">Nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a = href=3D"http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidonnatu= ralists.ca">http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/nature_blomidon= naturalists.ca</a></div> </blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>= --Boundary_(ID_edzoyWbfJIwr65jB3gpyNg)--
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