I visited Grand Pré once more and was not disappointed. Most of the American Pipits have left but the Horned Larks remain, for now.

The Black-capped Chickadee is one of our common winter birds, mostly a non migrant. I grew up in Vancouver feeding sunflower seeds to its cousin the Chestnut-sided Chickadee. The Rocky Mountains mostly demarc the Canadian boundary between the two chickadee species although there is overlap all the way to the Pacific Ocean.

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Horned Lark

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Northern Cardinal

The Northern Cardinal is found along the ocean side dyke ridge and on the mainland.

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