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Derek LovitchDerek Lovitch, a career biologist and naturalist with a life-long passion for birds, now lives in Pownal He and his wife, Jeannette, own and operate the Wild Bird Center of Yarmouth, which serves as a vehicle to share their passion for birds, birding, and bird conservation. Derek goes birding nearly every day, all year long, and blogs about it here.

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October 13, 2006
Nova Scotia Photos, Part II.

Heading to Seal Island, 10/6.
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Approaching Seal Island.
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The fisherman's bunkhouse, our home for the next 3 days.
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The accomodations.
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Seal Island, 10/6 through 10/8
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The church's flock, hehehe.
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Snowshoe Hare.
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One of the multiple Peregrine Falcons on the island during our visit.
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Eastern Bluebird, one of the "good" birds on our visit to Seal.
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Leaving Seal Island, begrudgingly.
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Yellow-rumped Warbler along the Barrington Bay Trail in Barrington Passage, back on the Mainland, 10/8. The most common landbird of the trip.
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The Hawk, and Cape Sable Light in the distance, Cape Sable Island, 10/9.
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Greater Yellowlegs at the Guzzle on Cape Sable Island.
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This is not a joke.
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I'm shocked that this was not listed as one of the cultural highlights in Blake's book. Poutine would also be a good cultural highlight, but I digress.
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But alas, no UFOs, or Shags (cormorants) for that matter.
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Pubnico Point, 10/10. The last day of the trip.
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Pinkney's Point.
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Chebogue Harbor.
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Bucolic Chebogue Point.
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Back where it all began, from the stern of the Cat Ferry in Yarmouth, looking at Cape Forchu Light.
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Posted by Derek Lovitch at 03:42 PM
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Nice shots

Posted by Ed
October 13, 2006 04:30 PM

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