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Index of Subjects --_cef56940-4dc6-464a-9340-daa79b29635a_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I got lucky with the great egret this time around. Upon arrival at the mar= sh area at Conrad's Island, Rose Bay I observed a duck hunter on the island= . Perfectly legal. I looked to my left and below the main road just befor= e where the new house is to be built on the saltmarsh, was the egret. It l= ooked very miserable. Shortly after a hunter shot at some ducks, very clos= e to the egret. Not legal distance from residences by my reconing and one = of those hunters who gives others a bad name. He especially was not legal= distance from where the new house is being built and where workers were. = He also was shooting into the air in the direction of the houses. This was= on the inside of the beach area and across towards the road on the other s= ide, which is not far across from that point. Anyhow, I believe that some = shorebirds were also shot at which flew when teal flew in. Needlessly to s= ay the egret disappeared and I have no idea where it went to. =20 =20 Of note shorebirds present which I managed to see before the shooting began= were five black-bellied plovers, two greater yellowlegs, a lesser yellowle= gs and a willet. There might have been a second willet, but this bird veer= ed off before I could get an id on it. =20 James R. Hirtle Dublin Shore _________________________________________________________________ R U Ready for Windows Live Messenger Beta 8.5? Try it today! http://entertainment.sympatico.msn.ca/WindowsLiveMessenger= --_cef56940-4dc6-464a-9340-daa79b29635a_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <head> <style> .hmmessage P { margin:0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY:Tahoma } </style> </head> <body class=3D'hmmessage'> I got lucky with the great egret this time around. Upon arrival at th= e marsh area at Conrad's Island, Rose Bay I observed a duck hunter on the i= sland. Perfectly legal. I looked to my left and below the main = road just before where the new house is to be built on the saltmarsh, was t= he egret. It looked very miserable. Shortly after a hunter shot= at some ducks, very close to the egret. Not legal distance from resi= dences by my reconing and one of those hunters who gives others a bad name.= He especially was not legal distance from where the new house = is being built and where workers were. He also was shooting into the = air in the direction of the houses. This was on the inside of the bea= ch area and across towards the road on the other side, which is not far acr= oss from that point. Anyhow, I believe that some shorebirds were also= shot at which flew when teal flew in. Needlessly to say the egr= et disappeared and I have no idea where it went to. <BR> <BR> Of note shorebirds present which I managed to see before the shooting began= were five black-bellied plovers, two greater yellowlegs, a lesser yellowle= gs and a willet. There might have been a second willet, but this bird= veered off before I could get an id on it.<BR> <BR> James R. Hirtle<BR> Dublin Shore<BR><br /><hr />R U Ready for Windows Live Messenger Beta 8.5? = <a href=3D'http://entertainment.sympatico.msn.ca/WindowsLiveMessenger' targ= et=3D'_new'>Try it today!</a></body> </html>= --_cef56940-4dc6-464a-9340-daa79b29635a_--
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