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> This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. --Boundary_(ID_+eh9vcbS1DFkzxVq8mAXxg) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT WOW! Thanks, June, for the notes and for doing such a great thing for the students, in this age of detachment from nature! Boy, do we need a lot more of this! Cheers from Jim in Wolfville ---------- From: June Swift <brierisland@gmail.com> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:03:07 -0300 To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Subject: [NatureNS] Zooplankton, whales, gannets, phalaropes What a day we had out on the water! Went out with the biology grade 8 and 11 class and it was a beautiful flat calm day. We took out our plankton net and was in luck. Today the students seen the entire food chain in action. On top of the water dancing like sprinkles of rain was reddish brown soup. We lowered out plankton net to tow beside the boat swarms of zooplankton (copepods). Underneath these swarms in the lower part of the water column you could see lots of herring. We got some specimens of copepods in our plankton net and looked at them along with sea gooseberry and lots of jellyfish. All of a sudden a humpback mother and calf appeared lunge feeding through this spectacular food chain. Northern Gannets were diving everywhere and flocks of phalaropes looked like clouds of silver going up in the air and flying in unison. I am so glad the students got a chance to experience the food chain in action. Its one thing to read about it, but to see it is an experience of a lifetime! June Swift --Boundary_(ID_+eh9vcbS1DFkzxVq8mAXxg) Content-type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>re Zooplankton, herring, whales, gannets, phalaropes</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> WOW! Thanks, June, for the notes and for doing such a great thing for the students, in this age of detachment from nature! Boy, do we need a lot more of this! <BR> <BR> Cheers from Jim in Wolfville<BR> ----------<BR> <B>From: </B>June Swift <brierisland@gmail.com><BR> <B>Reply-To: </B>naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<BR> <B>Date: </B>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:03:07 -0300<BR> <B>To: </B>naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<BR> <B>Subject: </B>[NatureNS] Zooplankton, whales, gannets, phalaropes<BR> <BR> What a day we had out on the water! Went out with the biology grade 8 and 11 class and it was a beautiful flat calm day. We took out our plankton net and was in luck. Today the students seen the entire food chain in action. On top of the water dancing like sprinkles of rain was reddish brown soup. We lowered out plankton net to tow beside the boat swarms of zooplankton (copepods). Underneath these swarms in the lower part of the water column you could see lots of herring. We got some specimens of copepods in our plankton net and looked at them along with sea gooseberry and lots of jellyfish. All of a sudden a humpback mother and calf appeared lunge feeding through this spectacular food chain. <BR> Northern Gannets were diving everywhere and flocks of phalaropes looked like clouds of silver going up in the air and flying in unison. I am so glad the students got a chance to experience the food chain in action. Its one thing to read about it, but to see it is an experience of a lifetime! <BR> June Swift<BR> <BR> </BODY> </HTML> --Boundary_(ID_+eh9vcbS1DFkzxVq8mAXxg)--
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