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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">Interesting Lance so much to know about=
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">Future birders will not run out of thin=
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">Enjoy the last of summer<br/></span>
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">Paul<br/></span>
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<!-- <![endif] --> On September 13, 2016 at 5:04 PM "Laviolette, Lan=
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<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"color: #1f497d; font-family: '=
;Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Hi everyone,</span></p>=20
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"color: #1f497d; font-family: '=
;Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>=20
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"color: #1f497d; font-family: '=
;Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I=E2=80=99ve been on Brier Isla=
nd for the past three weeks and I=E2=80=99d like to provide my take on some=
of the questions and comments about this year=E2=80=99s migration that hav=
e been brought up recently.</span></p>=20
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;Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>=20
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"color: #1f497d; font-family: '=
;Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Up to and including last week, =
I was still seeing extremely young birds on the island. This means that you=
ng of species such as Golden-crowned Kinglet were still fledging as recentl=
y as the last week of August. Black-throated Green Warblers, Hermit Thrushe=
s and Gray Catbirds fledged not much before that. This combined with the fa=
ct that the species composition of migrating birds was not entirely what we=
normally see during our time on the island and I would say that migration =
is 5-7 days later than what I would expect at this time of year. This is pr=
obably due to a delay in the breeding season brought about by the cold, wet=
June that was experienced in much of the Maritimes. </span></p>=20
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;Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>=20
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"color: #1f497d; font-family: '=
;Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I expect that not all areas of =
the Maritimes were affected equally nor all species. This is simply a gener=
al observation. </span></p>=20
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"color: #1f497d; font-family: '=
;Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>=20
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"color: #1f497d; font-family: '=
;Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I would also expect this delay =
to disappear as the later migrants begin to move. Fall migration is trigger=
ed by the angle of the sun and length of day and not availability of food. =
It will mostly be early migrants that have bred later in the year that will=
be affected. The young of later migrants will have had more time to mature=
before their normal migration time is reached so they should leave pretty =
much when they normally would.</span></p>=20
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"color: #1f497d; font-family: '=
;Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>=20
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"color: #1f497d; font-family: '=
;Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Cape May Warbler numbers have b=
een rising steadily for the last few years and this year they were way up. =
This appears to be a text book example of a species which increases when th=
e food it relies on increases. In this case the food is the Spruce Budworm =
and as you know, there is currently an outbreak of Spruce Budworm in many a=
reas of the Maritimes and the Gaspe. It is amazing to me at how quickly thi=
s warbler=E2=80=99s numbers have responded to the outbreak but it mimics wh=
at happened 40 years ago when the last outbreak took place.</span></p>=20
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;Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p>=20
<p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"color: #1f497d; font-family: '=
;Calibri',sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">There were only two decent migr=
ation events during the time I was on the island. They were on the weekend =
of August 27 and the weekend of September 10. These movements generally ref=
lect cold fronts that move across the Maritimes which are followed by weath=
er optimal to bird migration. As you know, southwest NS is suffering from a=
major drought and the lack of rai