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All: A full rounding of Hartlen Pt., gate to gate, produced a young male Prairie Warbler at the top of the hill on the road to "Back Cove" from the northern gate "Back Cove. (Posted on NS-RBA photos.) Otherwise - not a great show - there were a Hairy W. and a Red-breasted Nuthatch, a smal flock (15?) of Cedar Waxwings, about 30 "Myrtles," one Blackpoll, & at least 80 Am. Robins, mostly near the high towers off the southern road around the point. There is a very impressive crop of Canada Holly around HP this year, being consumed by robins, etc. There was only one Ipswich Sparrow (couldn't be checked for bands) plus 8 mainland Savannahs on their favoured harbourside beach. In 1971 (see Fig. 14 in Wayne Stobo's and my "The Ipswich Sparrow", NS Inst, Sci. 1975) Savannah numbers dropped sharply after end of September, whereas Ipswich didn't peak until mid-October. If you are interested in helping Acadia student Zoe Crysler's request for counts of Ipswiches on our beaches, it would be useful to have estimates of the stretches of beach walked, for comparison with the 1971 numbers. For the record, the harbourside beach at HP is almost exactly 1 km long between the outermost yellow concrete barriers along the road. Some other beaches (Conrad, Martinique) really need at least two censusers to weave through all the habitat. Cheers, Ian Ian McLaren
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