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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0003_01C76539.1F8946E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I dropped by Sullivan's after work yesterday (Monday) and found the gull = numbers down a bit from the large influx on the weekend. Here's a photo = from Monday of the lone Bonaparte's Gull standing to the left of a = Black-headed Gull on the ice, followed by a Ring-billed/ Mew Gull = comparison from Saturday (March 10th), and finally an Iceland Gull from = Saturday as well, one of the more white individuals of the many that = showed up, photo's 56 thru 58: http://bernieb.smugmug.com/gallery/916397/4/44337891/Medium One thing I didn't capture on camera and wished that I had was some = rather amusing crow behaviour. On Saturday in amongst the several = hundred Gulls on the ice there was one lone American Crow strutting = around like it owned the place, pecking at anything on the ice that = resembled food. If a gull was standing in the way of a possible morsel, = it would grap the extended wing feathers of the gull and pull it out of = the way, and even if a gull would take offense to this it would mostly = stand his ground defiantly. When I got poised to photograph this, it = unfortunately wandered away from the gulls, and was driven out of the = area by another crow. Bernard Burke blburke@ns.sympatico.ca Dartmouth ------=_NextPart_000_0003_01C76539.1F8946E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.3059" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>I dropped by Sullivan's after work = yesterday=20 (Monday) and found the gull numbers down a bit from the large influx on = the=20 weekend. Here's a photo from Monday of the lone Bonaparte's Gull=20 standing to the left of a Black-headed Gull on the ice, = followed by a=20 Ring-billed/ Mew Gull comparison from Saturday (March 10th), and finally = an=20 Iceland Gull from Saturday as well, one of the more white individuals of = the=20 many that showed up, photo's 56 thru 58:</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><A=20 href=3D"http://bernieb.smugmug.com/gallery/916397/4/44337891/Medium">http= ://bernieb.smugmug.com/gallery/916397/4/44337891/Medium</A></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>One thing I didn't capture on camera = and wished=20 that I had was some rather amusing crow behaviour. On Saturday in = amongst the=20 several hundred Gulls on the ice there was one lone American Crow = strutting=20 around like it owned the place, pecking at anything on the ice that = resembled food. If a gull was standing in the way of a possible = morsel, it=20 would grap the extended wing feathers of the gull and pull it out of the = way,=20 and even if a gull would take offense to this it would mostly stand = his=20 ground defiantly. When I got poised to photograph this, it=20 unfortunately wandered away from the gulls, and was driven out = of the=20 area by another crow.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Bernard Burke</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2><A=20 href=3D"mailto:blburke@ns.sympatico.ca">blburke@ns.sympatico.ca</A></FONT= ></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Dartmouth</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0003_01C76539.1F8946E0--
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