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Last night I dreamed about a Harris Sparrow. Does that count?
Don
Don MacNeill donmacneill@bellaliant.net
On 12/12/2016 8:40 PM, Keith Lowe wrote:
>
> We picked up 3 more species to bring us to 168
>
> I know what you’re thinking—no way not in this mess! Only one was
> observed today and that as in the banana belt where they got little or
> no snow. I saw on the Cape Sable web cam that there was not even a
> hint of a snow flake to be found. What a lousy Christmas they’re going
> to have!
>
> The new ones are:
>
> ·*American Woodcock, *reported today by Paul Gould at Bell Neck,
> Yarmouth County
>
> ·*Blue Grosbeak , *this one was reported by Clyde Stoddard last week
> but at the time it was not obvious it was seen by Clyde himself. It
> slipped my mind to follow up on this and I found out last night that
> Clyde did see this bird himself
>
> ·*Short-eared Owl, * Ian Manning let me know that Mike Gemmell spotted
> one on the Kingston Rail Trail on Dec 10
>
> Here are some notables missing from the WBL so far:
>
> *Missing species we have listed 19 or 20 times out of the last 20 years*
>
> ·Northern Shrike
>
> ·White-crowned Sparrow
>
> ·Common Redpoll
>
> ·Eurasian Wigeon
>
> ·Ruddy Duck
>
> ·Brant
>
> ·Atlantic Puffin
>
> ·Snowy Owl
>
> ·Northern Saw-whet Owl
>
> ·Eastern Meadowlark (last winter was our first miss on this in 20 years)
>
> *Missing species we have listed 16 – 18 times out of the last 20 years*
>
> ·Lincoln Sparrow
>
> ·Long-eared Owl (previously every year but MIA in 2 of the last 3 years)
>
> *Other notables missing so far*
>
> ·Snow Goose (13 year streak)
>
> ·Redhead (12 of the last 14 years)
>
> ·King Eider (previously fairly regular but MIA in the last 3 winters)
>
> ·American Bittern (last 9 out of 11 years)
>
> ·White-rumped Sandpiper (previously near certain but only every 2 or 3
> years in the last decade)
>
> ·Gyrfalcon (10 out of the last 12 but missed 2 of the last 4)
>
> ·Carolina Wren (8 of the last 10 and has made the DoWL in 7 of those
> years) DoWL = Depth of Winter List—Observed in February
>
> ·Varied Thrush (8 of the last 9 years)
>
> ·Black-and-White Warbler (8 of the last 10 but missed 2 of the last 3
> years)
>
> ·Yellow-throated Warbler (10 of the last 13 years)
>
> ·Hoary Redpoll (7 out of last 11 years)
>
> ·Field Sparrow (13 out of the last 15 years)
>
> www.nsbirdsociety.ca <http://www.nsbirdsociety.ca>/Library / Winter Birds
>
> Keith Lowe
>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/12/2016 8:40 PM, Keith Lowe
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We picked up 3
more species to bring us to 168<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I know what
you’re thinking—no way not in this mess! Only one was
observed today and that as in the banana belt where they got
little or no snow. I saw on the Cape Sable web cam that
there was not even a hint of a snow flake to be found. What
a lousy Christmas they’re going to have!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:black"> The new ones are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Roman",serif;color:black">
</span><b><span style="color:black">American Woodcock, </span></b><span
style="color:black">reported today by Paul Gould at Bell
Neck, Yarmouth County<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt"><span
style="font-family:Symbol;color:black">·</span><span
style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Times New
Roman",serif;color:black">
</span><b><span style="color:black">Blue Grosbeak , </span></b><span
style="color:black">this one was reported by Clyde Stoddard
last week but at the time it was not obvious it was seen by
Clyde himself. It slipped my mind to follow up on this and I