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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-AC984A81-158F-40ED-B267-6B1F1B68C695 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hi, There were many Gannets in the Harbour during the Tall Ships festival, almos= t all adults. Richard Stern Sent from my iPad On 2012-08-16, at 10:12 PM, Pat McKay <ah205@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote: >=20 >=20 > On 16 August 2012 18:41, <ulli@dunlin.ca> wrote: > ,Hi Folks, >=20 > I took the harbour cruise, aka ferry, this morning from Dartmouth to Halif= ax. > There were at least 20 Gannets, both adults and imm., swimming, diving, an= d flying between > Georges Island and the first bridge. >=20 > Ulli >=20 > Hello Folks, >=20 > As well as the alive Gannets, I can also see a dead Gannet, which has been= on the new breakwater built for the King's Wharf development in Downtown Da= rtmouth for the past week.=20 > This new breakwater is looking like a promising site for birders to keep a= n eye on. Apart from the dead Gannet, there have been flocks of Semipalmated= Plovers there most days this week. I counted at least 70 of this species th= ere on Monday (Aug 13th) and I believe there were more - the birds are diffi= cult to see against the stony background when they are motionless. The birds= seem to use the breakwater as a place to rest up around high tide.=20 > DC Cormorants like to roost on the floating boom at the end of the breakwa= ter - there are usually about a dozen birds around most of the time.=20 > Other species seen around from time to time over the past couple of months= include, Eider and Black Ducks, Common Terns, Black Guillemot, and of cours= e Great Black-backed and Herring Gulls. >=20 >=20 > Pat McKay --Apple-Mail-AC984A81-158F-40ED-B267-6B1F1B68C695 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 <html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>There were many Gannets in the Harbour during the Tall Ships festival, almost all adults.<br><br>Richard Stern<div>Sent from my iPad</div></div><div><br>On 2012-08-16, at 10:12 PM, Pat McKay <ah205@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:

On 16 August 2012 18:41, <ulli@dunlin.ca></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> ,Hi Folks,<br> <br> I took the harbour cruise, aka ferry, this morning from Dartmouth to Halifax.<br> There were at least 20 Gannets, both adults and imm., swimming, diving, and flying between<br> Georges Island and the first bridge.<br> <span><font color="#888888"><br> Ulli<br> </font></span></blockquote></div><br>Hello Folks,<br><br>As well as the alive Gannets, I can also see a dead Gannet, which has been on the new breakwater built for the King's Wharf development in Downtown Dartmouth for the past week. <br> This new breakwater is looking like a promising site for birders to keep an eye on. Apart from the dead Gannet, there have been flocks of Semipalmated Plovers there most days this week. I counted at least 70 of this species there on Monday (Aug 13th) and I believe there were more - the birds are difficult to see against the stony background when they are motionless. The birds seem to use the breakwater as a place to rest up around high tide. <br> DC Cormorants like to roost on the floating boom at the end of the breakwater - there are usually about a dozen birds around most of the time. <br>Other species seen around from time to time over the past couple of months include, Eider and Black Ducks, Common Terns, Black Guillemot, and of course Great Black-backed and Herring Gulls.<br> <br><br>Pat McKay<br> </div></blockquote></body></html> --Apple-Mail-AC984A81-158F-40ED-B267-6B1F1B68C695--