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On my return leg home I noted a disheveled Great Blue Heron in the = Sambro salt marsh. This is not a good sign for the bird. ____________________________________________________________________ Hans Toom Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada http://www.hanstoom.com http://www.hanstoom.com/blog ------=_NextPart_000_0036_01D00FC5.8B2D2530 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 8.00.6001.23588"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----=20 <DIV style=3D"BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A=20 title=3Dhtoom@hfx.eastlink.ca href=3D"mailto:htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca">Hans = Toom</A>=20 </DIV> <DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=3DNS-RBA@yahoogroups.com=20 href=3D"mailto:NS-RBA@yahoogroups.com">NS-RBA</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 04, 2014 1:23 PM</DIV> <DIV><B>Subject:</B> Glaucous Gull, Iceland Gulls, Great Blue Heron and = Purple=20 Sandpipers</DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>I was sitting on my favourite rock = overlooking=20 Duncan Reef while enjoying the relative comfort of a westerly=20 wind and some welcome sunshine. I was looking, = unsuccessfully, for=20 <STRONG>Purple Sandpipers</STRONG> on Duncan Reef. I put my binoculars = down and=20 sure enough there they were(3), almost literally at my feet, on the = mainland.=20 There were lots of <STRONG>Iceland Gulls</STRONG> swimming and flying = around the=20 reef and towards Jeffries Island.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>Sandy Cove was quiet, except for hordes = of=20 <STRONG>Starlings</STRONG>, but I did see a <STRONG>Semipalmated=20 Sandpiper</STRONG> here last Tuesday.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>From the look-off at Martin's = Point, Sambro=20 Harbour, I spotted a <STRONG>Glaucous Gull</STRONG> preening on a = rocky=20 islet at the west end of the harbour. With patience and a scope you will = find=20 this bird at Sambro Harbour on most visits.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>On my return leg home I noted a = disheveled=20 <STRONG>Great Blue Heron</STRONG> in the Sambro salt marsh. This = is not a=20 good sign for the bird.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2=20 face=3DArial>____________________________________________________________= ________<BR>Hans=20 Toom<BR>Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR><A=20 href=3D"http://www.hanstoom.com">http://www.hanstoom.com</A><BR><A=20 href=3D"http://www.hanstoom.com/blog">http://www.hanstoom.com/blog</A></F= ONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0036_01D00FC5.8B2D2530--
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