During our visit to West Pubnico, for the Tern festival (Jun 27 & 28), we were invited to the house of one of the local attendees to see an Eastern Bluebird...
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Blake Maybank
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Jul 3, 2009 3:49 pm
03 July 2009 Johnny Nickerson has reported that a Little Egret has been seen all day the "The Guzzle" along the road from Lower Clark's Harbour to The Hawk, on...
Randy Lauff and I heard a Willow Flycatcher singing this afternoon in about the same area as Ken McKenna reported one a couple of weeks ago (from the railroad...
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James Hirtle
jrhbirder@...
Jul 5, 2009 7:14 pm
I had a call with a report of a green heron. The reportee was Coyler Durnivich who is a young birder from South Carolina. He knows his stuff, so there is no...
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Blake Maybank
accentor@...
Jul 6, 2009 11:19 am
Marie Reid of Cow Bay reported that there are two Cattle Egrets (still present as of July 4) in the Cow Bay marsh, HRM. But they are difficult to locate...
I took a stroll at Cole Harbour Salt Marsh this morning and the joint was jumping. First off I spotted a Laughing Gull just past the pond on the first sandy...
The location is listed incorrectly in my previous report. The location of my trek this morning was to the Cow Bay Salt Marsh not the Cole Harbour Salt Marsh....
I was able to crop a photograph of the Little Egret to a size and angle where I could see both head plumes and the dark grey, near to black, lores. This...
Hi All: About 20 minutes ago I had a white-winged dove, a first for me. I kept hearing it across the road and knew it was different from a mourning dove's ...
July 7,09 from 11:30-1:00 the little egret was at the salt marsh at Silver Sands Beach in Cow Bay again today.it is a very active and flighty bird.visible by...
All, This message was forwarded to me by a friend, Hardy Eshbaugh, who summers in Waternish, near Sherbrooke, Guys. Co. He is an excellent birder, and was ...
Hi All, Just a quick note to say that I, along with Wayne Petersen and a Field Guides group was able to relocate the Dovekie this afternoon. Along with the...
Forwarded with permission, here is the link to the shots of the Dovekie. On 11/07/2009, ... Randy _________________________________ RF Lauff Way in the boonies...
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James Hirtle
jrhbirder@...
Jul 13, 2009 3:23 am
HI all: I forgot to mention that on my outing to Amherst Point Bird Sanctuary there was a dowitcher, which had all of the characteristics of a long-billed...
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Patrick Kelly
patrick.kelly@...
Jul 13, 2009 2:57 pm
Hello everyone: I was atlassing in 20LR60 yesterday on Russia Road and come across what i first thought was an immature bald eagle eating a dead skunk. I was a...
Here's an exercise to occupy you on a dull (weather and birding) day. There is a TV ad (CBC, ATV), for the Cat, featuring some gulls , with artistic license,...
Hello All, Â I have to be in Pugwash this Friday on a family related matter and will be travelling with other family members from here in Dartmouth. I am...
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Brian Starzomski
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Jul 16, 2009 12:58 am
Hello all- Amongst all the other great alcids and larids, Aimee and I saw 2 Dovekies during a recent (14 July) Bird Islands cruise in eastern Cape Breton....
All: Marie Reid e-mailed this a.m. to say that two Snwoy Egrets are still at the Cow Bay marsh (she had reported them a couple of weeks ago). Obviously one or...
Hello All,  Peter May of Porters Lake (Alps Rd. area) reported that on the morning of July 17th, he saw a Black-billed Cuckoo feeding on caterpillars ...
All: Marie Reid reports that two small egrets continue this morning in the marshes of Cow Bay Lake, mostly remote from the Silver Sands Beach. A photo from...
Checked out the Willow Flycatcher which I had found in one of my Atlas squares. The bird was still singing but I did not get any indication it had found a...
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Blake Maybank
accentor@...
Jul 20, 2009 2:58 pm
20 July 2009 Donelda, the proprietress of Donelda's Puffin Boat Tours out of Englishtown, has noted Dovekies around Ciboux Island (the easternmost of the Bird...
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Terri Crane
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Jul 21, 2009 1:14 am
Hi all. I don't like to do the "still here" postings but a couple people have inquired and tis will be for the record. The Dovekie that showed up at the Parks...
This morning the Little Egret remains at the Cow Bay Salt Marsh, far west side. There are lots of shorebirds now, well worth a visit. I saw no Snowy Egret. ...
All: Eric Mills and I, without having seen Hans Toom's message, went to the W. side of Cow Bay Lake yesterday mid-day and found the Little Egret loafing amidst...
After reading Ian McLaren's comment on his sighting yesterday, "The Little Egret is an adult, but its small head plumes(filoplumes) are much worn, and there is...
After reading Ian McLaren's comment on his sighting yesterday, "The Little Egret is an adult, but its small head plumes(filoplumes) are much worn, and there is...
