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Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 1h

In southern Nova Scotia we have the luxury of having Roseate Terns with us in summer. One year, I got to go to the local Island colony to try to photograph flying banded birds. This one carries a plastic band from Brazil, quite the annual journey. #Birds #Birding #Birdwatching #Seabirds

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Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 21h

No, kept dipping.

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Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 21h

Godwits on Cape Island at this time of year all need a good looking at. Four Hudsonian today, one day one of them will have white wing linings I'm sure. #Birds #Birding #Birdwatching #Shorebirds

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Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 1d

A new birding blog post from Nova Scotia. capesablebirding.wordpress.com/2025/10/13/h...

Hiding in Plain Sight

Sharp-tailed Sandpiper hadn’t been reliably recorded in Nova Scotia until Dave Currie and Ray Wershler identified one at Hartlen Point on 7th October, 2025. The bird didn’t stick and only a very fe…

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Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 1d

Me too.

Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 1d

This one was a bit confusing at first. A hybrid White-rumped x Dunlin from Cape Sable Island NS. #Birds #Birding #Birdwatching #shorebirds

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Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 1d

Hard to think what attracts our regular fall American Goldies to the rotting kelp piles. Cape Island NS. #Birds #Birding #Birdwatching

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Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 1d

It's a month since I last told people about the books I write. There's a birder mystery series, various stand alone novels and we do our own travelogues. The image is from our Australia trip from 2018. Digital copies are 2.99CAD. Everything I do is available from Amazon. #Books #Birdingtravel

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Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 1d

Yellow-rumps are around southern Nova Scotia in numbers, Blackpolls have all but gone through, now is the time of the Orange-crowned Warblers. Some will last into January before pushing off either south or daisywards. #Birds #Birding #Birdwatching

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Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 2d

It's the eBird Global Big Day today, unfortunately for me it always coincides with the first weekend of duck killing in southern Nova Scotia making it less of a joy for me to be out. This yard and year White-crowned Sparrow is some compensation. #birds #birding #birdwatching

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Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 6d

A call re a Nova Scotia rare Red-headed Woodpecker had me scurrying the few miles to the next county to see it. On the way, news broke of an NS first Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 300km away. Maybe tomorrow, although it has just flown off. #Birds #Birding #Birdwatching

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Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 7d

Soon be time for winter gulling. Too soon? How many white winged gulls in this shot at Dennis Point, Pubnico NS. #Birds #Birding #Birdwatching

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Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 7d

Even within Great Cormorants it's not always straightforward. Colwick Park, Nottingham.

Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 9d

As soon as I posted that American Kestrels always fly off when you stop, I got one that didn't. Cape Sable Island, NS. Connecticut Warblers always stay hidden, let's see how that one works out. #Birds #Birding #Birdwatching

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Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 9d

A hurricane that remains entirely pelagic, never crosses land and so has little contact, if any, with migrating birds.

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Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 10d

A Clay-coloured in our Cape Sable Island yard this morning, a scare bird in NS, doesn't breed here. Scilly birders, make sure you check all those Chipping Sparrows carefully, oh, wait! #Birds #Birding #Birdwatching.

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Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 10d

Don't worry about it, most people scroll past us anyway and even friends don't bother after your first book. I think the feeling guilty about bothering people is an English thing. I still have it despite living in Canada for over twenty years. Keep writing, you are good.

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Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 10d

In Nova Scotia we've had nothing but fish storms barrel past offshore. No birds from them, and with our ongoing drought all our summer birds have about gone. If the UK is to get vagrants from N. America, they're going to have to come from the middle and south of the continental migration.

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Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 11d

I live in Canada. Tip in restaurants if the service is good, otherwise, nope, nowhere else.

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Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 13d

Stop by an American Kestrel on a wire and it will fly off at 100m, stop for a Merlin and they always seem to be deciding whether to eat or just ignore you. Cape Island Nova Scotia. #Birds #Birding #Birdwatching

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Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 15d

Belted Kingfishers around Cape Island are usually pretty skittish, so it was nice to get photo op with one today. Taken with a Canon R7 and the 200-800mm lens.

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Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 17d

A rat found my bird feeders and I reluctantly had to deal with it. I find it easier to do if I name them so, sorry Donald but you lot made right mess of the basement last time. I don't have a photo of a rat so I'm using this crab instead.

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Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 19d

After a few weeks with no seabirds, suddenly Cory's are back off Cape Sable Island, Nova Scotia. Up to 15 buzzing around a lone fishing boat (not in this shot) with at least one Scopoli's candidate. We sometimes get late season incursions of Cory's. #Birds #Birding #Birdwatching #Novascotia

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Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 23d

Nobody really knows why but Prairie Warbler show up in Nova Scotia in the fall, this one is my fourth so far. #Birds #Birding #Birdwatching #NovaScotia

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Mark Dennis @markcdennis.bsky.social · 23d

Almost a blink and you'll miss it moment. A temp drop was supposed to bring bird to Cape Island, NS. It did but not very many. This Indigo Bunting was in our yard for for 30 seconds, it was #202 on Cape Island this year. Still hoping for a fall out. #Birds #Birding #Birdwatching

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