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--Apple-Mail-13-838051143 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > Subject: 2014 Eagles/Raptors Count -- preliminary results > > > FEB. 2, 2014 - Not a bad day weather-wise for our 33rd Annual Cyril > K. Coldwell Count of Eagles and Other Raptors of Eastern King's > County. The sky was overcast but visibility generally good, and > temperatures were about +2 C., with little or no precipitation. > Snow cover on the ground was near total but very shallow. > > Our preliminary or tentative results, from 35 people in 16 field > parties from 10 to 11 a.m., were: > > 388 total bald eagles -- 231 adults, 153 immatures, 4 of unknown > ages -- the ratio of ad./imm. = 231/153 = 60%/40%; > 59 red-tailed hawks; > 1 rough-legged hawk; > 2 sharp-shinned hawks; > 2 merlins (pigeon hawks); > 1 whitish-plumaged gyrfalcon; > 1 unidentified hawk; > 2 northern shrikes. > > For the bald eagles, largest numbers were 75 in ne. Grand Pre > (mostly on the ground), 70 nw. of Port Williams (between Cornwallis > & Canard Rivers), 53 n. & w. of Canning, 44 in Avonport area, 35 > along Gaspereau River. > > We had some problematic groups of eagles in the area east and north > of Grand Pre, and we hope such enigmas cancel each other out, and > that we at least approximate a good estimate of the numbers around > on this date. > > Other wildlife of interest seen during the count included 4+1 > coyotes, a gray squirrel, thousands of black ducks, hundreds of > great black-backed gulls, 2 hooded mergansers, 1 kingfisher, 60 > horned larks, snow buntings, cardinals, 1 white-winged crossbill. > > FEB. 3, 2014 - At home I noticed two red squirrels chasing each > other in our yard. Is this the time of year for "friskiness" on > their part? (i.e. courtship & mating?). > > And, speaking of squirrels, yesterday a gray squirrel was spotted > by some of our eagle counters, along Ridge Road near the Exit 10 > ramp to Hwy. 101 at Hortonville/Grand Pre -- seen by Peg Crawford, > Mike O'Brien, Emma & Mike Tichenor. --Apple-Mail-13-838051143 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>2014 Eagles/Raptors Count -- = preliminary results</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: = 14px; "><br></div> <div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica"><b>FEB. 2, 2014</b> - Not a bad day weather-wise for = our <b>33rd Annual Cyril K. Coldwell Count of Eagles and Other Raptors = of Eastern King's County</b>. The sky was overcast but visibility = generally good, and temperatures were about +2 C., with little or no = precipitation. Snow cover on the ground was near total but very = shallow. </font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">Our preliminary or <b>tentative results</b>, from 35 = people in 16 field parties from 10 to 11 a.m., were:</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>388 = total bald eagles</b> -- 231 adults, 153 immatures, 4 of unknown ages -- = the ratio <span class=3D"Apple-tab-span" style=3D"white-space:pre"> = </span>of ad./imm. =3D 231/153 =3D 60%/40%;</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">59 <b>red-tailed hawks</b>;</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">1 <b>rough-legged hawk</b>;</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">2 <b>sharp-shinned hawks</b>;</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">2<b> merlins</b> (pigeon hawks);</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">1 whitish-plumaged <b>gyrfalcon</b>;</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">1 unidentified hawk;</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">2<b> northern shrikes</b>.</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">For the = bald eagles, largest numbers were 75 in ne. Grand Pre (mostly on the = ground), 70 nw. of Port Williams (between Cornwallis & Canard = Rivers), 53 n. & w. of Canning, 44 in Avonport area, 35 along = Gaspereau River.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">We had some problematic groups of eagles in the area = east and north of Grand Pre, and we hope such enigmas cancel each other = out, and that we at least approximate a good estimate of the numbers = around on this date.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Other wildlife of interest </b>seen during the = count included 4+1 coyotes, a gray squirrel, thousands of black ducks, = hundreds of great black-backed gulls, 2 hooded mergansers, 1 kingfisher, = 60 horned larks, snow buntings, cardinals, 1 white-winged = crossbill.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica"><b>FEB. 3, 2014</b> - At home I noticed two <b>red = squirrels chasing</b> each other in our yard. Is this the time of = year for "friskiness" on their part? (i.e. courtship & = mating?).</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">And, speaking of squirrels, yesterday a <b>gray = squirrel</b> was spotted by some of our eagle counters, along Ridge Road = near the Exit 10 ramp to Hwy. 101 at Hortonville/Grand Pre -- seen by = Peg Crawford, Mike O'Brien, Emma & Mike Tichenor.</font></div> = </blockquote></div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-13-838051143--
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