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Birding in a Wintery Codroy Valley
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brucema...@gmail.com
Apr 21, 2018, 6:21:23 PM4/21/18
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Alison Mews and I birded ten hours in Codroy Valley to Cape Ray. Fresh fall of 5 cm of snow overnight and snow squalls through the day.
Highlights
Canada Geese :4500 exact totals on list in car and general chaos in counting geese with eagles around meant counting was a challenge. No rare geese
ROBINS - many many many flocks of 20-50 feeding on open patches of bare ground Like a Pelee fallout
Purple Finch and Pine Siskin - like robins everywhere in numbers
Common Grackles - 100+ some tight flocks in tree tops
Northern Harrier - 4
Rough-legged Hawk -1 a wet tame bird perched on shoulder of TCH near Wreckhouse perhaps having just landed after flying or swimming across Cabot Strait
Common Eider - 2000 in close at Cape Ray. Amazingly all dresseri subspecies which is scarce on Avalon. 100 Black scoters in same flock
Lesser Black-backed Gull - seven adults. Part of the same migration detected by Vernon in Strait of Belle Isle
Killdeer - 1
Great Blue Heron - only one so far
AM
BM
PS Have not tried for American Woodcock yet, plans in the making for this evening in less than ideal conditions light snow, fog and moderate NW winds.
Highlights
Canada Geese :4500 exact totals on list in car and general chaos in counting geese with eagles around meant counting was a challenge. No rare geese
ROBINS - many many many flocks of 20-50 feeding on open patches of bare ground Like a Pelee fallout
Purple Finch and Pine Siskin - like robins everywhere in numbers
Common Grackles - 100+ some tight flocks in tree tops
Northern Harrier - 4
Rough-legged Hawk -1 a wet tame bird perched on shoulder of TCH near Wreckhouse perhaps having just landed after flying or swimming across Cabot Strait
Common Eider - 2000 in close at Cape Ray. Amazingly all dresseri subspecies which is scarce on Avalon. 100 Black scoters in same flock
Lesser Black-backed Gull - seven adults. Part of the same migration detected by Vernon in Strait of Belle Isle
Killdeer - 1
Great Blue Heron - only one so far
AM
BM
PS Have not tried for American Woodcock yet, plans in the making for this evening in less than ideal conditions light snow, fog and moderate NW winds.
ILJones
Apr 21, 2018, 9:25:16 PM4/21/18
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JW had a Fox Sparrow briefly come aboard ship (CCGS Hudson) a ways off Port aux Basques today.
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