[NatureNS] Iceland Gulls, Scaup, goldeneyes, mallards, REDHEAD Port Williams

Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:23:28 -0400
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Hi All,

In Port Williams we received a lot a rain yesterday, followed by  
freezing rain for a couple of hours and this morning were greeted by a  
foot of snow!

The sewer pond hosted about a hundred mallards, three black ducks, the  
pair of lesser scaup, the drake Redhead and 21 common goldeneyes.

As I was walking home I was looking into the bottom of the Cornwallis  
River, the tide was out, and saw three Iceland gulls, I heard the  
goldeneyes flush from the sewer pond (whistlers!) and noticed a red  
tailed hawk coursing the river. I was surprised to see twenty six  
Iceland gulls flush from among the small ice pans on the river bottom  
that I had not noticed. I have never seen this many Iceland gulls at  
once here in Port Williams.

George Forsyth

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