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Index of Subjects I can't see someone catching a live crow and fastening it to a branch. Years ago we had a tame crow that came and pulled clothepins off the closelines, but even that one could not be caught. A few years ago someone caught a crow with bait and a fishline and sprayed it with gold paint - it stayed around the intersection of the number 3 highway and the road to CSE for a couple of weeks Incidentally, the best way to get rid of gulls in your blueberry patch is to get the body of a dead gull and tie it to a branch in the center of the patch. Roland. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don MacNeill" <donmacneill@eastlink.ca> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 7:53 AM Subject: Re: [NatureNS] This pm at Hartlen and Conrod's > An old trick to discourage crows from your property was to tie a dead crow > to a branch. Perhaps that is what this one was. If it was close to > water, the branch may have broken and the crow washed up at PPP. > > Don > > Don MacNeill > donmacneill@eastlink.ca > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Brian Bartlett" <bbartlett@eastlink.ca> > To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> > Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 9:54 PM > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] This pm at Hartlen and Conrod's > > >> Joan, At Hartlen Pt. yesterday, there was also a dead crow among the >> rocks, with turquoise rope (of the sort found among beach rubble) tied >> tightly around both of its feet, and attached to a board. I have no idea >> why anyone performed such a pointless act upon the crow. Couldn't tell >> how it had died -- seemed full-sized and healthy before death. The sight >> reminded me of one of the greatest pieces of Canadian nature writing, Don >> McKay's essay "Baler Twine," which includes a memory of a dead raven with >> its feet fixed to a fence with baler twine. >> Late yesterday afternoon the light from the falling sun was perfect at >> Sullivan's P. for highlighting the green or rust colours of the Wigeons' >> (both species) heads, and the b&w breast patterns of the Gadwalls. The >> Coots stayed far from shore. >> Today on the Young Naturalists' Club hike in the Arnell Lands area, >> highlights for the kids included an "icefall" (falling water frozen on >> the north side of an incline), and coyote scats clearly showing Snowshoe >> Hare fur that came through intact. Also, guide John told of toxic >> Reindeer Moss eaten farther north than here by Caribou and coming out the >> other end purified, eaten by some First Nations tribes as a delicacy. >> Naturally the young ones weren't as enthused about the idea of trying >> that delicacy as they were while nibbling the Wintergreen along the >> trail. >> Brian >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Joan Czapalay" <joancz@ns.sympatico.ca> >> To: "NatureNS" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> >> Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 4:46 PM >> Subject: [NatureNS] This pm at Hartlen and Conrod's >> >> >>> Hi all- Couldn't be housebound all day, so took one of my housemates ( a >>> visiting nursing professor from China) for a drive about. We went by >>> Sullivan's (nothing new to report), Fishermen's Reserve in E. Passage >>> ( good lobster sandwiches at the end of the road), a surprisingly empty >>> harbour ( a half dozen Red breasted Mergansers, some Common Eider ( >>> about thirty scattered along), 6-8 Scaup (didn't scope, so not sure if >>> any Lesser were there), and a single Song Sparrow at Hartlen beach area. >>> Conrad's Beach was very windy and quiet of birds. Again, RBMergansers, >>> eiders and Herring Gulls. No early Piping Plover, or Ipswitch that we >>> could find. Not much surf, so no surfers at Lawrencetown. I took some >>> pictures of the road work there. Lovely day to be outside. There have >>> bee Snowdrops in bloom for over a week (south end of Beaufort) and I >>> (like Pat) also noticed my first Coltsfoot of the spring in Halifax. >>> Last evening a *Purple Finch* in south end Robie Street. >>
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