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I spent several hours on Saturday morning in the Lawrencetown Beach area, hoping to see the Crested Caracara. The weather was highly variable and far from ideal. It was a lovely spring day when I left Halifax at 9 a.m.; blue sky and calm. By the time I reached Lawrencetown I had passed through light rain and snow squalls, and there were bitterly cold high winds. The waves at the beach were spectacular! The water on Lawrencetown Lake was also pretty choppy. But after a bit the sun came out, the sky was blue ... and then the bad weather started again. (Repeat several times.) I spent some time watching for the Caracara at each of the various places described by Andy Horn in his helpful email from last week, without success. I don't think this necessarily means that the bird has gone, however. I hope others will continue to report. I haven't been out in a while, so I enjoyed the morning despite the weather. I saw a few recent arrivals, and other resident birds new for me this year. There were LOTS of noisy Grackles, a few Red-winged Blackbirds, and a fair number of Robins. Song Sparrows sang when the wind dropped. Two male Ring-necked Pheasants were sparring on the side of the West Lawrencetown Road. A little flock of a dozen or so American Wigeon were in the West Lawrencetown Marsh near the trail, and there were a few more at Grand Desert. There were also a few Common Mergansers at Grand Desert. (They were in the pond where there is an island with an Acadian flag. Does this body of water have a name?) A pair of Bufflehead were hard to spot among the whitecaps on Lawrencetown Lake. A single Bonaparte's Gull in full breeding plumage at Conrad's Beach was an unusual sight for me. It was low tide, and the gull stood in a rivulet of water that was streaming by, catching little fish. It looked so dainty - - more like a shorebird than a gull. Patricia L.Chalmers Halifax
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