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I haven't been out lately, but late this afternoon I pulled over at Horseshoe Island, intending to have a quick scan of the Northwest Arm before going on to errands. There were some interesting birds, so I spent nearly half-an-hour there. There was a single Dovekie bobbing around, close to the edge of the ice-sheet. I had good comparisons of it, size-wise, with a Black Guillemot. Later I spotted a single Razorbill further off, on the Regatta Point side. It never surfaced for very long. There was also a single Common Loon and two Horned Grebes. There were at least 6 Red-breasted Mergansers, four or five Common Goldeneye, and any number of Black Ducks and Mallards. I hadn't seen the report of a Tufted Duck, and now regret that I didn't study them more closely! There were several dozen gulls roosting on the ice-sheet, which was rapidly disappearing as the tide came in. They were mostly Herring, with a few Ring-billed. I arrived about 4:45, as single crows in a steady stream flew up the Arm and northwards towards an evening roost - presumably still the one at Mount Saint Vincent. At about 5 p.m., there was a sudden large flock of about 150 crows, followed by many more stragglers, until I left about 5:15. Patricia L. Chalmers Halifax
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