[ValleyNature] today's bird notes -- cardinals, shorebirds, etc.

[James W. Wolford]

OCT. 16, 2009 - This morning at home feeders, 3 male cardinals at  
once -- 2 with pink bills so possibly adults, 1 with a still-dark  
beak and a patchwork of red and olive feathers.

High tide was at noon.  Very strong wind out of the east.  At noon at  
Hortonville, there were no double-crested cormorants on the power  
lines across the mouth of the Gaspereau River.  An hour later, no  
change.  So perhaps most of them have departed for the south now?

Windsor sewage ponds at 12:30 p.m.:  50 black-bellied plovers, 60  
small sandpipers (peeps?) that were too distant for identification  
with my ancient scope (probably mostly semipalmated sandpipers??), 80  
black ducks, a few mallards, at least 2 Am. wigeons, good numbers of  
ring-billed gulls, good numbers of herring gulls, 15 great black- 
backed gulls, and, nearby, 20+ rock pigeons.

Wolfville Harbour at 1:30 p.m. (tide still high): 14 greater  
yellowlegs, and a single unidentified dowitcher.

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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