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Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2011 17:26:27 -0400
From: Roger Burrows Nature NB
Subject: HARLEQUIN DUCK, RING-BILLED & LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULLS & HOARY
REDPOLL
March 4
Another great viewing day with little wind and bright sunshine; -6C


Ingalls Head Feeders 09:30-10:00
16 Mourning Doves (+2 later), 7 American Tree & 2 Song Sparrows, ca 95
Common Redpolls, 1+ HOARY REDPOLL, 4 American Goldfinches

White Head Ferry 11:40-12:10
7 Common Loons, 25 American Black Ducks,. female Mallard, 12 Common Eiders,
28 Surf & 3 White-winged Scoters, 49 Long-tailed Ducks, 4 Red-breasted
Mergansers, 11 Black Guillemots

White Head Island 12:10-14:00
Common Loon, Red-necked Grebe, Double-crested & 5 Great Cormorants, 1095
Brants, 86 American Black Ducks, 2 male Mallards, 69 Common Eiders, 46+
HARLEQUIN DUCKS (Gull Rocks off Langmaid Cove), 2 Long-tailed Ducks, 4
Red-breasted Mergansers, 2 male Ring-necked Pheasants, Black Guillemot, 17
Black-capped Chickadees, 19 Common Redpolls

White Head Ferry 14:00-14:30
7 Common Loons, Red-necked Grebe, Double-crested & Great Cormorants, 119
American Black Ducks, 83 Common Eiders, 30 Surf, 19 White-winged & 13 Black
Scoters, 46 Long-tailed Ducks, male Common Goldeneye, 12 Red-breasted
Mergansers, 10 Black Guillemots

Ingalls Head 14:30-14:40
4 Common Loons, 5 Black Scoters, male Bufflehead, 2 Red-breasted Mergansers,
2nd-winter RING-BILLED GULL, 3rd-winter LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL
I can also add a 1st-year male COOPER'S HAWK, WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS and
COMMON REDPOLLS in the last week on White Head and a NORTHERN SAW-WHET OWL
in the Castalia area: all reported by local residents.
Roger Burrows
Ingalls Head
Grand Manan