An very fascinating meeting took place today. In the birding world. Like in worlds where close relationships are tied together by the common interests of the individuals, this one was no exception.
If you remember a few weeks ago , we were in the company of Joan , our birding friend who lives in Port Greville. She in turn has many birding friends here in Nova Scotia and many other places. One of the persons here, near Lunenburg, where we are staying was James, an avid birder and friend of Joans. She suggested that I contact James as he would know this area better and might have some suggestions for possible good birding. I wrote James a note and told him what had transpired.
He wrote me back a fine letter depicting a number of places that we might find birds in the area. One of the areas we were going to today was on that list. One description was " just past the corner store there is a gate. Park there and walk the road to the dike." We did that and had just finished the hike, when a white car pulled up behind us. It was James!!!!! He probably had seen our Michigan license plate and may have believed it was us. Anyway, we got to meet him and exchanged greetings and tidbits about birding. He too was looking for the Western Kingbird that was seen in the area in the past few days. We established relationship and are looking forward to some possible time to go birding together.
We did not find the Western Kingbird, bit did see some others in a few of the ponds and along them beach at the Ocean by Gaff Point.
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| One of the tidal ponds by Gaff Point |
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| A lone Black Duck seen today. |
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| Early moring reflections were primo! |
Some of the roads we traversed and their trails were (in no special order):Kingsbury Road, Hirtl Beach Road, Upper Kingsbury Road, Beach Hill Road, Feltzer South, and three ponds, namely Hirtle Pond, Romkey Pond, and Hirtle beach. There were a number of other ponds too unknown to name. There were many people at Hirtle beach as it was a sunny day.
We did see CANADIAN GEESE form the first time in a while. also some SANDERLINGS, PIED BILLED GREBE, BLUE WINGED TEAL, HOODED WARBLER, LESSER YELLOWLEGS GREAT BLUE HERONS, and our favorite on the road bird...BELTED KINGFISHER. There were others totaling 27 today
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| A rock formation across the Bay that seems to be chalk. |
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| We stopped at an old cemetery that has good birding, sometimes. All dates of birth were 1800 or before. |
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| Coming down Upper Kingsbury Rd.Toward the Ocean. |
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| High Beach road wound around a lot. |
The Hill Road gave us a great view of the Bays, and how much the area around Kingsbury is becoming a retirement community. Large homes and many of them on beautiful viewpoints or "lookoffs". as the Canadians say.
Some other shots of the day.
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| Ruth finds a spider web. |
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| Ruth finds three friends |
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| A look at the small harbour of South Feltzer |
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| The Bluenose II is out for a spin with paying customers. |
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| An anchorage with reflections in the morning. |
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See you tomorrow.
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