[NatureNS] birding Blanche Peninsula etc.

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From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca>
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 11:15:56 -0300
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> From: Rachel Hoogenbos <rachelhoogenbos@yahoo.com>
> Date: August 12, 2012 9:25:11 AM ADT
> To: Peter H Yaukey <PYaukey@uno.edu>
> Cc: jimwolford@eastlink.ca
> Subject: Re: could you post to NS Birds for me?
>
> Hi Peter, I remember meeting you and your wife at the Hawk vividly,  
> and am asking Jim Wolford by copy of this message to post yours on  
> Nature NS birding, as I do not post there myself. I only post to  
> yahoo group NS-RBA (rare bird alert for NS).
> Very much enjoyed seeing your list - do keep in touch when you  
> return. Email will find me and please visit 793 Southside, Cape  
> Sable Island whether I'm there or not, good birding from my  
> backdeck, especially around low tide.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rachel
>
> --- On Sat, 8/11/12, Peter H Yaukey <PYaukey@uno.edu> wrote:
>
> From: Peter H Yaukey <PYaukey@uno.edu>
> Subject: could you post to NS Birds for me?
> To: "rachelhoogenbos@yahoo.com" <rachelhoogenbos@yahoo.com>
> Cc: "Peter H Yaukey" <PYaukey@uno.edu>
> Date: Saturday, August 11, 2012, 11:54 PM
>
> Hello:
>
> Sorry to email you out of the blue; we met briefly at the Hawk  
> about 10 days ago, I was a visiting birder who has a place over on  
> Blanche Peninsula.  I have been watching the NS RBA and birding  
> listserve since then, and seen that you post frequently.  Would you  
> mind-
>
> 1- telling me how to subscribe (instead of using surbirds.com to  
> snoop)
>
> 2- might you be able to post the following sightings for me before  
> they get too out of date?
>
> Hi- I am a birder visiting from New Orleans; have been coming up to  
> the Blanche Peninsula to our family summer place since the mid  
> 1970s and met a few of you in the past.  But, it has been eight  
> years since my last visit.
>
> I was up in the Blanche-Baccaro area July 24-August 1, and had a  
> few observations of note.  Not sure of the status of all these in  
> Shelburne County now, but they were species I had not seen on my  
> visits over the years previously.
>
> American Wigeon- adult female with single half grown young in the  
> ponds at Blanche.  The hen was very agitated at my presence.
>
> Northern Mockingbird- one at Reynold's Seafood plant in Port LaTour  
> (which is along highway adjacent the marsh).
>
> Bald Eagle- adult flying across Eel Bay (the bay west of the  
> Blanche peninsula), headed west.
>
> Did not get to visit Sand Hills Beach; elsewhere at my usual sites  
> there were 200 or so shorebirds along the Blanche Rock Bar, and 350  
> or so at the Fort St. Louis historical site above Baccaro (looking  
> south at low tide; maybe best seen from Smithville Wharf).  The  
> usual species.  Seemed to be about 2500 at the Hawk during a scan  
> from shore there, including a half dozen or so visible Hudsonian  
> Godwits.
>
> As usual, gannets easily seen from Baccaro Point; also two  
> kittiwakes there.
>
> No luck this visit seeing "reverse morning flight" of migrant  
> landbirds moving north across the salt marsh that joins the Blanche  
> Peninsula to the mainland; tried one morning after a cold front but  
> saw no likely migrant species crossing the gap northward as has  
> often been the case in past years a little later in August.
>
> Back in New Orleans now,
>
> Peter Yaukey


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valign=3D"top" style=3D"font: inherit;"><div>Hi Peter, I remember =
meeting you and your wife at the Hawk vividly, and am asking Jim Wolford =
by copy of this message to post&nbsp;yours on Nature NS birding, as I do =
not post there myself. I only post to yahoo group NS-RBA (rare bird =
alert for NS).</div> <div>Very much enjoyed seeing your list - do keep =
in touch when you return. Email will find me and please visit 793 =
Southside, Cape Sable Island whether I'm there or not, good birding from =
my bac