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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0038_01CD03C8.0C726AE0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ken McKenna Box 218 Stellarton NS B0K 1S0 902 752-7644 Hi all Charlie Kendell reported a Killdeer on this daily walk around MacLellans = Brook area this morning. There are a couple of nearby quarries where = they usually nest.=20 In the afternoon Charlie and I did some birding around Pictou and = Caribou Harbours.=20 There has been a noticeable increase in Ring-billed Gulls at the = Aberdeen Parking lot near MacDonalds. I counted 100 there yesterday. = Numbers had dwindled to 20-30 over the winter so birds are moving = through now.=20 At the outflow of NSPC in Trenton, there was a single Killdeer and an = imm Great Cormorant in the same place I saw it yesterday. This cormorant = was not seen this winter before this. There were still 6 American Wigeon = at Big Gut bridge, just outside Hillside.=20 At the Abercrombie meter plant, a Bald Eagle flushed from the nest as a = second eagle came in with a claw-full of grass.=20 There did not seem to be any eagle activity at nests at Abercrombie Pt. = just before the Northern Pulp plant or at the nest along the tracks near = the Granton turnoff from the TCH 106 but there have been eagles near = these nests and will likely be used. At Pier C an imm Glaucous Gull remains . It has been present most of the = winter. There were handfuls of Robins in most locations.=20 We watched a Red-breasted Merganser jostle and juggle a flounder many = times before the fish disappeared down the merganser throat. It was = quite amusing to watch the head jerking required to get the width of the = flounder down the throat.=20 An Eagle was present just below the nest at Seaview Cemetery in Pictou, = but not sure if there was a second bird in the nest or not.=20
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