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Index of Subjects Fantastic photos, Paul! Was down early this morning with my usual offerings of canned salmon, chopped beef suet, price reduced snipped spinach leaves, a suet block & mixed seed for the ducks. Regardless, this bird will most definitely find the morsels you left! :o) Have found, it is often, a little bit of a prima donna when it has an audience! :o) I truly hope it makes it through, without being eaten by some kind of predator but, thankfully, it is quite wary & skittish and it has lots of hiding spots! Am off to the UK on Feb 28 until March 14 to attend Crufts in Birmingham. Certainly know that Moorhens/Gallinules are very common there! Will have some time to do some birding while in the West Midlands. Looking forward to my trip, needless to say! Cheers! Gayle MacLean ---- P&P Murray <murraypaul@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: > February 17, 2012 > > I swung by Red Bridge Pond in Dartmouth today for a look at the Gallinule. As reported the other day by Gayle, he was hanging about in the tops of the bull rushes when I drove up. He let me take a couple of pictures which I uploaded to my gallery. I left him some frozen cubes of water packed tuna mixed with water packed sardines and some spinach. The ducks did not seem to fancy it and the gulls did not notice but, I also did not get to see the Gallinule eat them either – maybe he likes it, maybe not. > > I also visited Dartmouth Cove and Fisherman’s Cove in Eastern passage on the 14th and again today. Not a lot of activity at either site today but on the 14th at Dartmouth Cove there were a couple of dozen Goldeneyes, 8 Red-breasted Mergansers, about 12 Scaup and 1 Common Loon. Today at Fisherman’s Cove there were 3 RB Mergansers, 2 Common Loons and 6 or 8 Black Guillemots local to the cove. > > Also, when I was down at Rainbow Haven on the 14th there was an Otter playing on the ice of the lagoon adjacent to Bailey bridge by the rifle range and 5 Buffleheads on the Cole Harbour side of the bridge. > > http://scranlocker.smugmug.com/Nature/Nature-2012/20920971_TjK84m > > Paul Murray > Dartmouth
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