[ValleyNature] Ipswich Sparrows etc., Brier Island

[James W. Wolford]

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> From: Eric Mills <E.Mills at DAL.CA>
> Date: March 27, 2010 4:25:32 PM ADT
> To: ns-rba at yahoogroups.com
> Cc: naturens at chebucto.ns.ca
> Subject: [NatureNS] Ipswich Sparrows etc., Brier Island
> Reply-To: naturens at chebucto.ns.ca
>
> Three Ipswich Sparrows today, one in Westport, the others near  
> Whipple Point.
> The Westport bird was feeding in the scanty roadside grass along  
> the shore side
> of the road, facing into a northerly gale and blowing spray -  
> presumably just
> like Sable Island at this time of year. One of the Whipple Point  
> birds may have
> been a nominate Savannah x Ipswich hybrid: gray backed, but with  
> brownish wings
> and coverts and breast streaking more well defined than the average  
> Ipswich.
>
> The bird of the weekend has been American Robin. Friday morning's  
> stormy cold
> front grounded many on the island. Anne and I saw perhaps 500 along  
> the roads
> during the storm yesterday and saw many more coming and going in  
> the woods.
> They appeared to be arriving all day. We believe that the numbers  
> on the island
> must number in the low thousands. With them were significant  
> numbers of Juncos
> and Song Sparrows, but nothing like the Robin spectacle.
>
> This afternoon, a single adult Northern Shrike near Woodside Cemetery.
>
> Eric
>
>
> Dr Eric L Mills
> Professor Emeritus of History of Science
> Dept of Oceanography, Dalhousie University
> Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4J1, Canada
> e.mills at dal.ca
> http://oceanography.dal.ca/person/Eric_L._Mills.html
> http://ukings.ca/kings_3635_3991.html
>
>

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