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Hi Marg. Those birds would have been Northern Gannets. The dark bird
may have been a young gannet.
Don
Don MacNeill donmacneill@bellaliant.net
On 14/05/2013 3:14 PM, Marg Millard wrote:
> I have spent a couple hours the past couple days working on my
> painting of waves. At the Western Head Lighthouse is a perfect spot
> since I have to be other places in town and the surrounding
> neighbourhoods at certain times.
> I have been taken over in part by watching birds. I can recognize a
> few Gulls, I can pretty much tell a duck but there have been these
> large, powerful, bright white birds with black wing tips. When the
> underside shows the wing is darker, to match the tips. I haven't had
> binocs to use with me and If I did I probably wouldn't be any further
> ahead as most times they are quite a distance out skimming along the
> wave tops.
> Yesterday there were well over 36, in singles and sometimes one a bit
> behind another and then several groups of 5 or 6 flying in a
> formation. Today I saw fewer and only one group but they were
> steadily passing. Might they be Gannets? I haven't ever seen one that
> I was aware of.
> Another was a larger bird, in silhouette, a torpedo or cigar shaped
> dark bird with the wings seeming to come from the centre where other
> birds have them at the front end or the back end. It again was a large
> bird (not goose shaped) and I am thinking not a Cormorant and it was
> going at quite a clip, a steady unaltering beat. No glide I could
> see. I haven't had much time to look it up so far but it seemed quite
> unusual to me, not being a seabird person,......well not yet.
>
> Best regards,
> Marg Millard, White Point, Queens
>
>
>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><font face="Calibri">Hi Marg. Those
birds would have been Northern Gannets. The dark bird may have
been a young gannet.<br>
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Don<br>
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<div class="moz-signature">Don MacNeill
donmacneill@bellaliant.net</div>
On 14/05/2013 3:14 PM, Marg Millard wrote:<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:84DF2A5DE2BF464BAA4FAC7FC3986E68@amdx25200"
type="cite">I have spent a couple hours the past couple days
working on my painting of waves. At the Western Head Lighthouse is
a perfect spot since I have to be other places in town and the
surrounding neighbourhoods at certain times.
<br>
I have been taken over in part by watching birds. I can recognize
a few Gulls, I can pretty much tell a duck but there have been
these large, powerful, bright white birds with black wing tips.
When the underside shows the wing is darker, to match the tips. I
haven't had binocs to use with me and If I did I probably wouldn't
be any further ahead as most times they are quite a distance out
skimming along the wave tops.
<br>
Yesterday there were well over 36, in singles and sometimes one a
bit behind another and then several groups of 5 or 6 flying in a
formation. Today I saw fewer and only one group but they were
steadily passing. Might they be Gannets? I haven't ever seen one
that I was aware of.
<br>
Another was a larger bird, in silhouette, a torpedo or cigar
shaped dark bird with the wings seeming to come from the centre
where other birds have them at the front end or the back end. It
again was a large bird (not goose shaped) and I am thinking not a
Cormorant and it was going at quite a clip, a steady unaltering
beat. No glide I could see. I haven't had much time to look it up
so far but it seemed quite unusual to me, not being a seabird
person,......well not yet.
<br>
<br>
Best regards,
<br>
Marg Millard, White Point, Queens <br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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