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--Boundary_(ID_4VNlxv4oGPKkN/DB39oAiw) Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT OCT. 15, 2011 - I checked NE Grand Pre, "The Guzzle", at about an hour after high tide (h.t. was 3:35 p.m.). There were about 200 "peeps" or small shorebirds flying and landing and chased by a peregrine falcon. There was a very strong wind blowing from west to east, but the peregrine seemed to have no trouble with that and freely drifted to Boot Island up high and then flew into the wind easily to come back to the NE Point area where I was. I watched a couple of short chases that got the falcon nothing (except fun?). I'm pretty sure the peregrine was an immature, with darkly streaked underparts. Then I did my standard walk of eastern Evangeline Beach at about 1.5 hours after high tide, i.e., from 5 p.m. to about 5:30 p.m., to where the trees end and the salt marsh begins (not far from The Guzzle). At the east end of the beach there were about 200 "peeps", again chased by a peregrine (and perhaps by a second raptor that I didn't actually see, perhaps a small merlin?). Among the "peeps" were substantial numbers of semipalmated plovers and a single sanderling, and about 15 dunlins flew in when I was leaving the east end to walk back; but the rest of the peeps I could not diagnose since I was just too far from them and without a scope. No doubt the others were a mixture of semipalmated and white-rumped sandpipers. Also seen in the water were 2 loons together that I'll bet were red- throated loons, but again no scope to confirm this. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. --Boundary_(ID_4VNlxv4oGPKkN/DB39oAiw) 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>OCT. = 15, 2011</b> - I checked <b>NE Grand Pre, "The Guzzle"</b>, at = about an hour after high tide (h.t. was 3:35 p.m.). There were = about <b>200 "peeps" </b>or small shorebirds flying and landing and = chased by a <b>peregrine falcon</b>. There was a very strong wind = blowing from west to east, but the peregrine seemed to have no trouble = with that and freely drifted to Boot Island up high and then flew into = the wind easily to come back to the NE Point area where I was. I = watched a couple of short chases that got the falcon nothing (except = fun?). I'm pretty sure the peregrine was an immature, with darkly = streaked underparts.</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>Then I did my standard walk of eastern Evangeline = Beach</b> at about 1.5 hours after high tide, i.e., from 5 p.m. to about = 5:30 p.m., to where the trees end and the salt marsh begins (not far = from The Guzzle). At the east end of the beach there were about<b> = 200 "peeps"</b>, again chased by a peregrine (and perhaps by a second = raptor that I didn't actually see, perhaps a small merlin?). Among = the "peeps" were substantial numbers of <b>semipalmated plovers</b> and = a single<b> sanderling</b>, and about 15 <b>dunlins</b> flew in when I = was leaving the east end to walk back; but the rest of the peeps I could = not diagnose since I was just too far from them and without a = scope. No doubt the others were a mixture of semipalmated and = white-rumped sandpipers.</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 seen in the water were 2 loons together that I'll = bet were <b>red-throated loons</b>, but again no scope to confirm = this.</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_4VNlxv4oGPKkN/DB39oAiw)--
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