Hey all, I spotted this bird a few days but wanted to go back and make sure it was what I thought it was. It's without a doubt a red-shafted. The red it was...
Just had a Summer Tanager land in our backyard apple tree. This is a first for me - he is beautiful! I have posted pics on NS-RBA. - Debbie (Timberlea)...
Hi, I saw and photographed a Whippoorwill along the Camp Road, Brier Island this evening just before it got totally dark. I saw the moth- like shape in flight,...
At 10.30am next to Vernon D'Eon South Side - resting next to pond. Cheers, Rachel...
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P.L. Chalmers
plchalmers@...
May 19, 2012 8:43 pm
After seeing this report I visited the Public Gardens on Friday evening after work, from 6:30 until 8:00 p.m. I intended to walk through the whole gardens,...
Laura had not seen the Great Egret yet so I took her to Roach's Pond after dinner this evening and there are now two Great Egrets present. The beavers have...
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clyde stoddart
clydebstoddart@...
May 19, 2012 11:20 pm
19 may some birds seen by clyde stoddart and others wilson phalarope at the hawk guzzle, 630 pm american oystercather at the hawk guzzle 630 pm and other...
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clyde stoddart
clydebstoddart@...
May 20, 2012 12:11 pm
20 may at 8am seen by clyde stoddart at lower clarks harbour accross from genevas restraunt (former) 2 males and 1 female northern shovelers...
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clyde stoddart
clydebstoddart@...
May 20, 2012 2:30 pm
20 may at 940 am at the hawk brown thrasher seen by clyde stoddart...
So far, the weekend has provided some excellent birding on Brier Island for the 12+ birders that have been here. Highlights include a singing Field Sparrow,...
Less than thirty feet off a private beach in the Sambro Harbour area was a Dovekie repeatedly diving and preening. The flanks and belly weren't heavily...
One hawking about along the Westport waterfront this morning, alone and not with the other swallows, at least at the time. Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless...
May 17 Palmeter Woods Red-eyed Vireo - 2 singing Least Flycatchers - rather than being concentrated at "Flycatcher Corner", now widely distributed throughout. ...
We're moving to a smaller place and are proportionately reducing our library. Some of my (too) many bird books have to go: A Guide to the Birds of Panama...
I was able to spend a quiet weekend on Bon Portage Island - no sheep, no dogs and no ATVs. Only unusual bird was a Northern Mockingbird near the Light house....
Hi, I have posted the "keepers" from the many bird pics I took over the long w/e just past on Brier Island -- ...
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Lois Codling
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May 23, 2012 1:28 am
We had at least one singing Pine Warbler Monday evening, May 21, in Laurie Pk., Wellington. It was really flitting around flycatching, so there may have been...
Carl Haycock has just phoned to report an immature Yellow-crowned Night Heron in Westport, Brier Island, this morning. Apparently it has been spending some...
HI all, Mainly more so for interest sake, I have seen and heard a total of three Chimney Swifts different days either flying over our house in Bible Hill or...
A male Indigo Bunting visited a friend's feeder for a couple of days this week in West Arichat on Isle Madame, CB....
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Bob McDonald
bobathome@...
May 24, 2012 8:26 pm
Yes, I saw this as well and groaned... I was involved in the 24-hour BioBlitz which took place in the BMBCL WA in 2009. Actually we had 75 species of birds...
Hi Ian M suggested that I post photos of this bird in Back Cove on 20 May. The bird has a yellow wash on the throat, flanks, belly and undertail. An...
All: It has been almost a week since I saw an odd martin on CSI. At about 1030 last Sunday (20 May), it was perched high on the wires across the road from the...
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clyde stoddart
clydebstoddart@...
May 26, 2012 8:46 pm
26 may, on 25 may at hawk beach a dead whale 20+ feet long, it has been dead for a long time and looks like it might have come from somewhere esle, as it was...
During this afternoon's outings from the Nature NS annual meeting in Tatamagouche, both field parties found a drake Eurasian Wigeon and a pair of Lesser Scaup...
Looks almost like a cliff swallow at first glance. Odd...
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P.L. Chalmers
plchalmers@...
May 27, 2012 3:17 am
There was a drake Wood Duck this afternoon at Red Bridge Pond, on the Waverley Road in Dartmouth. This seems to have become a regular place to find them in...
Male scarlet tanager, male red bellied woodpecker both in the St John's church yard off Old Sackville Road, Lower Sackville (above Lois Codling's house) this...
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P.L. Chalmers
plchalmers@...
2:01 am
This morning at 6:20 a.m., I heard through my open bedroom window a Red-bellied Woodpecker calling repeatedly. I went out into the backyard and just glimpsed...
