[NatureNS] The massive gull flock off the Canning Road, Kings Co.

Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:12:37 -0400
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All:

On a trip to Kentville yesterday to deliver something, Bernice McLaren  
and I visited a few local areas. Didn't see anything unexpected, but a  
  Rough-legged Hawk hovering close by near Potrt Williams was a  
pleasing sight for B as well as I.

However, I did take an overlapping series of photos across the  
traditional large roost of gulls in fields west of the road between  
Port Williams and Canning. Then, for a casual approximation of numbers  
I stitched them together as a panorama and counted gulls strips  
constituting about 29% of the total length. Thus I came up with a  
total of about 3040.

This could be done by sampling with more statistical rigour, and some  
of my counts were a bit iffy because of poor resolution. Someone else  
with better telephoto facilities could do better, but it serves to  
suggest that this is the largest flock than I have  ever seen in the  
province.

I'll bet it includes at least one of every vagrant N. Hemisphere  gull {:>} .

Cheers, Ian
Ian McLaren

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