Spaniard's Bay to Bellevue - Saturday

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A low key day.

CHAPELS COVE ponds
no Buffleheads yet

COLEY'S POINT South
Greater Scaup - 193
Lesser Scaup - at least three
Black Scoter - 1
White-winged Scoter - 1

SPANIARDS BAY
Bonaparte's Gull - 2
Black-headed Gull - 8
goldeneyes - 0

HARBOUR GRACE
mmmmh - not much, a few regular shorebirds + 30 DC Shags

CARBONEAR
nothing to drive there for

VICTORIA sewage ponds
like Carbonear for excitement.

BELLEVUE BEACH
Tide did not fall much with the strong NW winds blowing in the bay. I viewed from the town side with scope.
Bonaparte's Gull - 12
Black-headed Gull - 1
Hudsonian Godwit - 1
BB Plover - 15
Greater Yellowlegs - 2
White-rumped Sandpiper - 3
Bald Eagle - 5
Great Cormorant - 35 on the island, no DC Shags here.
Ruffed Grouse -1

The number of Bonaparte's Gull versus Black-headed Gull is a totally reversal of years not so long gone by. The increase in Bonaparte's Gull and decrease in Black-headed Gull is coincidental and not at all related.

B Mactavish