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--Apple-Mail-38--841820603 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > Subject: 2014 Eagle Count Results, Feb. 2, 2014 -- 388 bald eagles > etc. > > 33rd Annual Cyril K. Coldwell Count of Eagles and Other Raptors of > Eastern King's County > > FEB. 2, 2014, was 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. And the dykeland roads were all driveable, a definite > improvement over many past counts. > > Below are our results, from 35 people in 16 field parties from 10 > to 11 a.m. Just one hour minimized the double-counting of eagles, > but otherwise our count is much like our regular Christmas Bird > Count. Each field party has an assigned area, and the locales > covered extend from Scots' Bay south to Black River, and from > Avonport west to Kentville, including all areas in between those > extremes. > > 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; > 2 rough-legged hawk; > 2 sharp-shinned hawks; > 2 merlins (pigeon hawks); > 1 whitish-plumaged gyrfalcon; > 1 unidentified hawk; > 1 barred owl; > 2 northern shrikes. > > One day earlier, Bernard Forsythe and Rick Whitman found 2 short- > eared owls at ne. Grand Pre and 2 great horned owls north of > Noggins Farm Market, Greenwich. > > 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. And James & Lana Churchill reported two > bald eagle nests that had adult eagles attending them (at Scots' > Bay & Blomidon). > > 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. > > Our history of this unscientific count (just once a year, and very > weather-affected) goes back to 1979 and only 22 total eagles. > Cyril Coldwell started putting out agricultural and trapping > carrion back in the mid-1960s at Gaspereau. Gradually the eagles > increased in numbers, but in 1991-1993 there was a huge jump of > numbers of eagles from 148 to 442! for eastern King's County. Why > so sudden is a mystery, but the general increase parallelled the > growth of the poultry industry. > > After 1993 our annual count totals have fluctuated mostly between > 300 and 400 eagles, but extreme high counts were 525 in 1997 and > 580 in 2000. Our 2013 total was 293 eagles, of course all bald > eagles, and it took three tries to get in an acceptable count. > > Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, and thanks to all of the unnamed > participants in this year's count. --Apple-Mail-38--841820603 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 Eagle Count Results, Feb. 2, = 2014 -- 388 bald eagles etc.</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <div><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-size: 12px; "><b>33rd Annual Cyril K. Coldwell Count of = Eagles and Other Raptors of Eastern King's = County</b></span></div><div><br></div><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> was 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. And the dykeland roads were all driveable, a = definite improvement over many past counts.</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">Below are = our <b>results</b>, from 35 people in 16 field parties from 10 to 11 = a.m. Just one hour minimized the double-counting of eagles, but = otherwise our count is much like our regular Christmas Bird Count. = Each field party has an assigned area, and the locales covered extend = from Scots' Bay south to Black River, and from Avonport west to = Kentville, including all areas in between those = extremes.</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">2 <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">1 = <b>barred owl</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> = 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">One day earlier, Bernard Forsythe and Rick Whitman = found 2 <b>short-eared owls</b> at ne. Grand Pre and 2 <b>great horned = owls</b> north of Noggins Farm Market, Greenwich.</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>For = the bald eagles</b>, 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. And James & Lana Churchill reported two<b> = bald eagle nests</b> that had adult eagles attending them (at Scots' Bay = & Blomidon).</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 <b>coyotes</b>, a <b>gray squirrel</b>, thousands of = black ducks, hundreds of great black-backed gulls, 2 <b>hooded = mergansers</b>, 1<b> kingfisher</b>, 60 horned larks, snow buntings, = cardinals, 1<b> white-winged crossbill</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">Our = <b>history of this unscientific count</b> (just once a year, and very = weather-affected) goes back to 1979 and only 22 total eagles. = Cyril Coldwell started putting out agricultural and trapping carrion = back in the mid-1960s at Gaspereau. Gradually the eagles increased = in numbers, but in 1991-1993 there was a huge jump of numbers of eagles = from 148 to 442! for eastern King's County. Why so sudden is a = mystery, but the general increase parallelled the growth of the poultry = industry. </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">After 1993 our annual count totals have fluctuated = mostly between 300 and 400 eagles, but extreme high counts were 525 in = 1997 and 580 in 2000. Our 2013 total was 293 eagles, of course all = bald eagles, and it took three tries to get in an acceptable = count.</font></div></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"><br></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">Cheers from Jim in Wolfville, and thanks to all of the = unnamed participants in this year's = count.</font></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-38--841820603--
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