Date: 06/23/2006

Number: 1

I was on Ile Haute (Nova Scotia) last week end with a group
organised by the people of the Maritimes Breeding bird Atlas. Ile Haute is that quite isolated island(not even a wharf) in the Bay of Fundy just outside of the Minas Bassin.

It was quite an experience
and a very wet one at that as it rained most of the
time we were there. But on one of the rare sunny
breaks I was sitting on the helicopter pad next to the
light tower that has replaced the old lighthouse that
burned down.

I was just enjoying the moment when some movement at the corner of my eye caught my attention. As I look that way I saw a Monarch flying
about in what must have been it's first outing in at
least 24 hours (cause it had been raining all that
time). It then proceeded to fly all around the pad. A
nice colorful moment in an other wise pretty grey and
foggy trip.

Forwarded by Don Davis of Toronto, Ontario. [Estimating date as 6/23/06.]

Isle Haut, NS

Latitude: 45.2 Longitude: -65

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