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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Well Eric Wigeon breed quite commonly along the </span>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Northumberland  Strait in NS as well as PEI.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">And have for years.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">We had them in a farm pond where I used to work and<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">they were delightful flying around in the evenings, feeding in the sheep<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">feeders - a lovely bird.<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Enjoy the summer<br/></span>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Paul<br/></span>
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On July 28, 2016 at 1:44 PM Eric Mills <E.Mills@Dal.Ca> wrote:
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<p>Early on July 24 I found an American Wigeon female with a single downy young in the big pond, Pond Cove, Brier Island. This was not a total surprise, for there had been an agitated male in the area a few weeks before. But it is the first confirmation of breeding on Brier Island, and only the second (according to our recent atlas) in Southwestern / Western Nova Scotia. </p>
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<p>Vis-a-vis the recent discussion about early warbler migration, as seen from Brier Island July 23-26, I can't say that I found any signs of one. What I did see was the seasonally-expected formation of feeding guilds of recently fledged birds and some post-breeding resident adults, composed on Brier mainly of Yellow, Yellow-rumped and Black-throated Green Warblers, Common Yellowthroats, Golden-crowned Kinglets, Black-capped Chickadees, and Red-breasted Nuthatches. Alder Flycatchers were still singing, and recently fledged Savannah Sparrows were everywhere. Some of the young Kinglets looked as though they should have stayed in the nest for a few more days. </p>
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<p>Of course passerines can be on the move in late July, and one of these was a single adult Eastern Phoebe that seemed to appear out of nowhere on the afternoon of July 25, was restless and on the move, and no doubt was a post-breeding disperser from somewhere nearby on the mainland. </p>
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<p>Other birds of interest on or around Brier Island: four adult Great Cormorants and a single HY bird among the Double-crests on Peters Island, probably from a nesting site nearby on Long Island; impressive numbers of phalaropes building up along the tide-streaks W of the island (I estimated 5000 Reds and about 50 Red-necked on July 24); a few hundred Great Shearwaters and sparse Wilson's Storm-Petrels offshore; two summering Black Scoter males (in eclipse) in Pond Cove; and the first juvenile Least Sandpipers (4/80) on July 25, which is a few days earlier than the 40-year average. </p>
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<p>Eric L. Mills</p>
<p>Lower Rose Bay</p>
<p>Lunenburg Co., NS</p>
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