http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/ Nova Scotia Rare Bird Alert Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:15:44 GMT Richard Stern http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6147 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6147 Hi, Don and Carol MacNeill found a pair of Sandhill Cranes in a field at N.Grand Pre this afternoon. They called me, (and this time it wasn't a joke!) and a Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:05:07 GMT Joan Czapalay http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6146 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6146 NS Birders may be interested in this from Green Birding. Cheers, Joan WHITHER BIGBY GREEN-BIRDING? Two years ago a little over five hundred birders from Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:57:27 GMT P.L. Chalmers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6145 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6145 Fulton Lavender phoned and left a message on my answering machine this evening, to report that he had found a juvenile Western Kingbird in the vacant lot at Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:03:08 GMT E.Mills@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6144 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6144 This afternoon, there was an adult graellsii Lesser Black-backed Gull with a group of large gulls bathing in a stream at Eagle Head Beach, E of Brooklyn, Sun, 22 Nov 2009 20:23:32 GMT dcgusset http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6143 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6143 Saw two Greater Shearwaters flying around Duncans Cove around 13:00 today; at least one is feeding now (16:20) with 16 Northern Gannets, between Duncan Reef & Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:40:15 GMT P.L. Chalmers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6142 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6142 While chatting with another birder this morning I heard a third-hand report of a Western Kingbird seen yesterday? on Canal Street ? in Dartmouth. Does anyone Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:37:48 GMT P.L. Chalmers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6141 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6141 I walked around Jollimore late this morning and had no luck finding the mystery blackbird. This is indeed a very "birdy" area, and one where I used to go Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:54:11 GMT David Currie http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6140 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6140 Hi All Azor Vienneau and I were on Kirk Rd., Jollimore, HRM this morning from about 8:00 until 10:30am. We had no luck finding that bird. Had a good talk with Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:08:44 GMT Joyce http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6139 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6139 I had a wonderful look at the Black-throated Gray Warbler on Thursday. My thanks to Eric Mills for pointing me in the right direction. Actually the bird found Sun, 22 Nov 2009 04:04:45 GMT P.L. Chalmers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6138 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6138 I found a message on my answering machine this evening from Fred Greig, who lives on Kirk Road in Jollimore, near the Frog Pond and Fleming Park. He had a Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:49:28 GMT Richard Stern http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6137 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6137 Hi, As Ian has mentioned, a car-load of us went looking for Halifax area rare birds today, from the Valley. After searching through the Chickadees in the Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:00:00 GMT ghawkins_ca http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6136 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6136 I continue to see him at least once per day when I'm around. He's been in and out of here all morning today Graham Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:43:29 GMT iamclar@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6135 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6135 All: For those still seeking the warbler, Richard Stern just phoned (ca. 10:30 a.m.) to say that it was fioraging left (south) of the gate into the Weasgwoltic Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:30:26 GMT P.L. Chalmers http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6134 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6134 I was told on Thursday evening about "a yellow bird, maybe the size of a chickadee" seen occasionally in the garden of a house in the 6400 block of Summit Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:49:43 GMT Blake Maybank http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6133 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NS-RBA/message/6133 From: Bev Crowell bevcrowell@... Subject: Cattle Egret Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 Hi All. Yesterday afternoon ~3:30, my Dad (George Crowell) and I just