[ValleyNature] A great birding experience today.

[James W. Wolford]

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> From: Richard Stern <sternrichard at gmail.com>
> Date: March 20, 2009 5:56:52 PM ADT
> To: NatureNS <naturens at chebucto.ns.ca>, NS-RBA <NS- 
> RBA at yahoogroups.com>
> Subject: [NatureNS] A great birding experience today.
> Reply-To: naturens at chebucto.ns.ca
>
> Hi,
>
> I just got back from a wonderful hour or so's birding. I went to  
> Wellington Dyke, near Canning, where there were about 1000 Canada  
> Geese - on the ground, in the air, flying in formation and making a  
> great cackle. There were also constant streams of Black Ducks and  
> Mallards going overhead. Then I noticed near a hummock but close to  
> the road a Red-tailed Hawk was tearing away at the remains of a  
> dead Mallard on the ground. Suddenly a Peregrine came zooming in  
> from the side, whacked the Red-tail on the back, and repeated this  
> several times till the Red-tail gave up and lumbered off. Then the  
> Peregrine took over and tore away at the dead duck - ignoring me  
> and allowing to get within just a few metres, to take all kinds of  
> photos, and video footage with my point and shoot.
>
> I left and went home, but went straight back there with Liz, and we  
> watched an almost repeat, with the Peregrine again attacking the  
> Red-tail repeatedly, but this time it gave up and flew off, right  
> in front of us, again allowing for some nice flight shots. At the  
> point where we left, the Red-tail was still eating the duck, and  
> the sky was now full of geese and ducks (live ones), including at  
> least 8 N.Pintail, and some Ring-billed Gulls (not common in King's  
> Co. in late winter).
>
> I will post photos and videos in due course.
>
> A great experience!
>
> Richard
>
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> Richard Stern,
> 317 Middle Dyke Rd.
> Port Williams, NS, Canada
> B0P 1T0
>
> sternrichard at gmail.com
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