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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0024_01CE9D96.79E5ED90 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ken McKenna Box 218 Stellarton NS B0K 1S0 902 752-7644 Hi all Charlie Kendell and I did some birding yesterday Aug 19 at Big I. The = tide was high most of the day and although I did a shorebird count, I am = sure many more were left unseen in the salt marsh grasses.=20 Highlight was a new bird for Charlie, a Baird's Sandpiper (juv) along = the Strait side of the east end of the causeway on the upper sand in the = first 100 m or so of the east end of the causeway.=20 On the way out we drove the MacLellans Brook Rd and at the NE end just = before the intersection of the Sherbrooke Rd. we saw 4 Solitary = Sandpipers along with 2 Least and a Semipalmated Sandpiper in a wet area = along the road=20 The Solitary Sandpiper remains at the McGee Pond half way along the Big = I. road. A Sora with at least 3 young is also there and has been seen = for a numbers of weeks. Charlie and I noticed interesting behaviour of = the adult as it seemed to be carrying nest material into a clump of high = grass. It made 6-7 trips in with grasses. This seems to be odd behaviour = as there were young birds present and it seems late in the year for nest = building. Land birds were not plentiful with the heat of the day. We did note a = few butterflies- nothing new- Northern Crescent, Clouded Sulphurs, = Cabbage White and a unid'd largish Fritillary likely Great Spangled. In = Egerton we had a Black Swallowtail.=20 Bird results have been posted to eBird. ------=_NextPart_000_0024_01CE9D96.79E5ED90 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META name=3DGENERATOR content=3D"MSHTML 8.00.6001.23515"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>Ken McKenna<BR>Box 218 Stellarton = NS<BR>B0K=20 1S0<BR>902 752-7644<BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>Hi all</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>Charlie Kendell and I did some birding = yesterday=20 Aug 19 at Big I. The tide was high most of the day and although I did a=20 shorebird count, I am sure many more were left unseen in the salt marsh = grasses.=20 </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>Highlight was a new bird for Charlie, a = <STRONG>Baird's Sandpiper</STRONG> (juv) along the Strait side of = the east=20 end of the causeway on the upper sand in the first 100 m or so of the=20 east end of the causeway. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>On the way out we drove the MacLellans = Brook Rd and=20 at the NE end just before the intersection of the Sherbrooke Rd. = we saw 4=20 <STRONG>Solitary Sandpipers</STRONG> along with 2 Least and a = Semipalmated=20 Sandpiper in a wet area along the road </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>The <STRONG>Solitary Sandpiper</STRONG> = remains at=20 the McGee Pond half way along the Big I. road. A <STRONG>Sora = </STRONG>with at=20 least 3 young is also there and has been seen for a numbers of = weeks.=20 Charlie and I noticed interesting behaviour of the adult as it seemed to = be=20 carrying nest material into a clump of high grass. It made 6-7 trips in = with=20 grasses. This seems to be odd behaviour as there were young birds = present and it=20 seems late in the year for nest building.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>Land birds were not plentiful with the = heat of the=20 day. We did note a few butterflies- nothing new- Northern Crescent, = Clouded=20 Sulphurs, Cabbage White and a unid'd largish Fritillary likely Great=20 Spangled. </FONT><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>In Egerton we had a = Black=20 Swallowtail. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>Bird results have been posted to eBird. = </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0024_01CE9D96.79E5ED90--
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