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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_dwpxZ9ShbbMbKpqtQJ47Rg) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Ken McKenna Box 218 Stellarton NS B0K 1S0 902 752-7644 Hi all I birded Big I. yesterday (Sept. 18) morning to early afternoon when I = met Liz and Ann Doull just as I was finishing up. I note they were able = to find some shorebirds that I was not able to locate. Merlin was likely = moving the birds around a bit. There were a large number of Gannets = (275) off the west end of the Strait side of the causeway to the island = which seem to disappear for the most part by afternoon. There were 6 = American Pipits along the rocks by the causeway, but I also heard them = along the dune area and also the west sandpit on the island. I managed = to see my first Red-necked Grebe of the fall. It was fully in basic = plumage with no red neck at all. Common Loons continue in numbers all = round the island but no Red-throats yet. Birds moving in numbers today = include Savannah and Swamp Sparrows as well as Blue-headed Vireos and I = encountered a few small flocks of mixed warblers. Some birds must have = been fooled into thinking it was spring with the cool weather of the = night. I heard 4 drumming Ruffed Grouse, (one strutted across Docker Rd = with fully ruffed neck feathers), singing Brown Creeper, Ruby-crowned = Kinglet and both Vireos.=20 I have pasted my ebird submission below. Sorry about the length, but the = birding was pretty decent! I saw 20-30 Cabbage Whites and a couple of Clouded? Sulphurs which = evaded a close look. I did manage to photograph an American Lady on = Docker Rd.=20 Big Merigomish Island, Pictou, CA-NS 18-Sep-2011 7:40 AM - 1:40 PM Protocol: Traveling 15.0 kilometer(s) Comments: On arrival low tide, 5C and calm- on leaving high tide, = 18C and light NW winds 70 species American Wigeon 10 American Black Duck 32 Green-winged Teal 36 Surf Scoter 125 White-winged Scoter 1 Common Merganser 21 Ruffed Grouse 8 4 were drumming! Common Loon 21 Horned Grebe 2 Red-necked Grebe 1 Northern Gannet 275 Double-crested Cormorant 41 Great Blue Heron 20 Osprey 1 Bald Eagle 3 Merlin 1 Black-bellied Plover 11 Semipalmated Plover 42 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Greater Yellowlegs 5 Lesser Yellowlegs 9 Ruddy Turnstone 3 Sanderling 22 Semipalmated Sandpiper 2 White-rumped Sandpiper 1 Pectoral Sandpiper 1 Short-billed Dowitcher 4 Bonaparte's Gull 76 Ring-billed Gull 40 Herring Gull 11 Great Black-backed Gull 5 Common Tern 14 Mourning Dove 3 Belted Kingfisher 3 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 6 Pileated Woodpecker 3 Blue-headed Vireo 12 Red-eyed Vireo 2 Blue Jay 11 American Crow 24 Common Raven 2 Black-capped Chickadee 35 Boreal Chickadee 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch 2 Brown Creeper 1 singing Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3 1 was singing Hermit Thrush 1 European Starling 90 American Pipit 6 Cedar Waxwing 8 Black-and-white Warbler 3 Nashville Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 10 American Redstart 1 Northern Parula 2 Magnolia Warbler 4 Yellow Warbler 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 Blackpoll Warbler 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler 16 Black-throated Green Warbler 4 Savannah Sparrow 35 Song Sparrow 20 Swamp Sparrow 11 White-throated Sparrow 7 Bobolink 2 Purple Finch 3 American Goldfinch 20 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 = (http://ebird.org/canada)= --Boundary_(ID_dwpxZ9ShbbMbKpqtQJ47Rg) 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>I birded Big I. yesterday (Sept. 18) morning to early afternoon when I met Liz and Ann Doull just as I was finishing up. I note they were able to find some shorebirds that I was not able to locate. Merlin was likely moving the birds around a bit. There were a large number of Gannets (275) off the west end of the Strait side of the causeway to the island which seem to disappear for the most part by afternoon. There were 6 <STRONG>American Pipits</STRONG> along the rocks by the causeway, but I also heard them along the dune area and also the west sandpit on the island. I managed to see my </FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial>first <STRONG>Red-necked Grebe</STRONG> of the fall. It was fully in basic plumage with no red neck at all. Common Loons continue in numbers all round the island but no Red-throats yet. Birds moving in numbers today include Savannah and Swamp Sparrows as well as Blue-headed Vireos and I encountered a few small flocks of mixed warblers. Some birds must have been fooled into thinking it was spring with the cool weather of the night. I heard 4 drumming Ruffed Grouse, (one strutted across Docker Rd with fully ruffed neck feathers), singing Brown Creeper, Ruby-crowned Kinglet and both Vireos. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I have pasted my ebird submission below. Sorry about the length, but the birding was pretty decent!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I saw 20-30 Cabbage Whites and a couple of Clouded? Sulphurs which evaded a close look. I did manage to photograph an American Lady on Docker Rd. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">Big Merigomish Island, Pictou, CA-NS<BR>18-Sep-2011 7:40 AM - 1:40 PM<BR>Protocol: Traveling<BR>15.0 kilometer(s)<BR>Comments: On arrival low tide, 5C and calm- on leaving high tide, 18C and light NW winds<BR>70 species<BR><BR>American Wigeon 10<BR>American Black Duck 32<BR>Green-winged Teal 36<BR>Surf Scoter 125<BR>White-winged Scoter 1<BR>Common Merganser 21<BR>Ruffed Grouse 8 4 were drumming!<BR>Common Loon 21<BR>Horned Grebe 2<BR>Red-necked Grebe 1<BR>Northern Gannet 275<BR>Double-crested Cormorant 41<BR>Great Blue Heron 20<BR>Osprey 1<BR>Bald Eagle 3<BR>Merlin 1<BR>Black-bellied Plover 11<BR>Semipalmated Plover 42<BR>Spotted Sandpiper 1<BR>Greater Yellowlegs 5<BR>Lesser Yellowlegs 9<BR>Ruddy Turnstone 3<BR>Sanderling 22<BR>Semipalmated Sandpiper 2<BR>White-rumped Sandpiper 1<BR>Pectoral Sandpiper 1<BR>Short-billed Dowitcher 4<BR>Bonaparte's Gull 76<BR>Ring-billed Gull 40<BR>Herring Gull 11<BR>Great Black-backed Gull 5<BR>Common Tern 14<BR>Mourning Dove 3<BR>Belted Kingfisher 3<BR>Downy Woodpecker 1<BR>Northern Flicker 6<BR>Pileated Woodpecker 3<BR>Blue-headed Vireo 12<BR>Red-eyed Vireo 2<BR>Blue Jay 11<BR>American Crow 24<BR>Common Raven 2<BR>Black-capped Chickadee 35<BR>Boreal Chickadee 1<BR>Red-breasted Nuthatch 2<BR>Brown Creeper 1 singing<BR>Golden-crowned Kinglet 1<BR>Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3 1 was singing<BR>Hermit Thrush 1<BR>European Starling 90<BR>American Pipit 6<BR>Cedar Waxwing 8<BR>Black-and-white Warbler 3<BR>Nashville Warbler 1<BR>Common Yellowthroat 10<BR>American Redstart 1<BR>Northern Parula 2<BR>Magnolia Warbler 4<BR>Yellow Warbler 1<BR>Chestnut-sided Warbler 1<BR>Blackpoll Warbler 2<BR>Yellow-rumped Warbler 16<BR>Black-throated Green Warbler 4<BR>Savannah Sparrow 35<BR>Song Sparrow 20<BR>Swamp Sparrow 11<BR>White-throated Sparrow 7<BR>Bobolink 2<BR>Purple Finch 3<BR>American Goldfinch 20<BR><BR>This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (</FONT><A href=""><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">http://ebird.org/canada</FONT></A><FONT size=3 face="Times New Roman">)</FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML> --Boundary_(ID_dwpxZ9ShbbMbKpqtQJ47Rg)--
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