[ValleyNature] ring-necked ducks, Wolfville Hbr. shorebirds

[James W. Wolford]

On Oct. 2/09 I erroneously reported:

Judy told me that Port Williams sewage ponds now apparently hold 6  
scaups?

NOT SO -- I checked out the above ponds in early evening; besides the  
usual mallards and black ducks, the only diving ducks were 3 female  
or immature ring-necked ducks, presumably the same 3 that I reported  
a few days ago.  There were two birders there from B.C., and they  
agreed on the ring-necked ducks, as did Judy Tufts, who phoned me  
earlier about my note from earlier in the day.

OCT. 3, 2009 - Wolfville Harbour at high tide: along the RR tracks  
were 15+ greater yellowlegs, one middle-sized sandpiper that was not  
a dowitcher and possibly was a pectoral sandpiper?, at least 8  
semipalmated plovers, and several unidentified peeps.

Cheers from Jim in Wolfville

Jim (James W.) Wolford
91 Wickwire Ave.
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada
B4P 1W3

phone 902-542-9204
e-mail <jimwolford at eastlink.ca>

"In wildness is the preservation of the world" -- Henry David Thoreau
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