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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_qW7u//2nSSh0d9JyNR0biw) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I can add an ancient note to this subject: In my days in central Alberta, 35-40 years ago (yipe!!), in certain years similar phenomena occurred on lakes east of Edmonton, specifically Cooking and especially Hastings Lake, as I recall. The advancing ice in late autumn would produce open holes of water that gradually became smaller and smaller, and always seemed to attract a variety of ducks, like scaups and goldeneyes etc. These lakes were shallow and very productive, being full of amphipod crustaceans, larvae of midge flies, etc. etc. These concentrations of small numbers of waterfowl also attracted predators, like bald eagles and newly-arrived snowy owls for the winter. Such predators took advantage of these apparently easy-to-catch prey (weakening?). Cheers? from Jim in Wolfville ---------- From: Terri Crane <terri.crane@ns.sympatico.ca> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:31:45 -0400 To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Labrador Loons (on Ice) Hi Richard & Brian This has indeed happened arround NS.In the Canso Area in Jan-Feb 2004 Stephen Bushell led a couple other guys in the sucessfull rescue of a doomed Common Loon. It was beleived to be the chick of a very late second nesting in our local Water Shed Lake. Only after the proper permition was given did the guys sucessfuly catch and then release the loon into Chedabucto Bay off the Fox Island beach. The following day the ever shrinking small opening in the lake was frozen over. Tom K. Canso ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Stern <mailto:sternrichard@gmail.com> To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 8:27 PM Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Labrador Loons (on Ice) Hi, 3 o4 years ago there was a story that ran for several days on CBC radio about someone rescuing a Loon in that situation from a partly frozen lake in NS. I forget the details, but perhaps someone else has them. Richard On 11/6/07, Brian Dalzell <dalzell@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote: Has anyone ever heard of loons staying on freshwater lakes too long into the fall and being (fatally) frozen in? There are currently at least half a dozen (record late) lingering loons in Labrador City. Each day the area of open water they are utilizing grows smaller. One would assume they would leave before these areas gets too small (<100 meters long) to take off from, but who knows? -- ################# Richard Stern, 317 Middle Dyke Rd. Port Williams, NS, Canada B0P 1T0 rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca rbstern@xcountry.tv sternrichard@gmail.com ################### --Boundary_(ID_qW7u//2nSSh0d9JyNR0biw) Content-type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>re ice trapping loons and other birds </TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> I can add an ancient note to this subject:<BR> <BR> In my days in central Alberta, 35-40 years ago (yipe!!), in certain years similar phenomena occurred on lakes east of Edmonton, specifically Cooking and especially Hastings Lake, as I recall. The advancing ice in late autumn would produce open holes of water that gradually became smaller and smaller, and always seemed to attract a variety of ducks, like scaups and goldeneyes etc. These lakes were shallow and very productive, being full of amphipod crustaceans, larvae of midge flies, etc. etc. These concentrations of small numbers of waterfowl also attracted predators, like bald eagles and newly-arrived snowy owls for the winter. Such predators took advantage of these apparently easy-to-catch prey (weakening?).<BR> <BR> Cheers? from Jim in Wolfville<BR> ----------<BR> <B>From: </B>Terri Crane <terri.crane@ns.sympatico.ca><BR> <B>Reply-To: </B>naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<BR> <B>Date: </B>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:31:45 -0400<BR> <B>To: </B>naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<BR> <B>Subject: </B>Re: [NatureNS] Labrador Loons (on Ice)<BR> <BR> <FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial">Hi Richard & Brian<BR> </FONT></FONT> <BR> <FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial">This has indeed happened arround NS.In the Canso Area in Jan-Feb 2004 Stephen Bushell led a couple other guys in the sucessfull rescue of a doomed Common Loon. It was beleived to be the chick of a very late second nesting in our local Water Shed Lake. Only after the proper permition was given did the guys sucessfuly catch and then release the loon into Chedabucto Bay off the Fox Island beach. The following day the ever shrinking small opening in the lake was frozen over.<BR> </FONT></FONT> <BR> <FONT SIZE="2"><FONT FACE="Arial">Tom K.<BR> Canso<BR> </FONT></FONT> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>----- Original Message ----- <BR> <B>From:</B> Richard Stern <mailto:sternrichard@gmail.com> <BR> <B>To:</B> naturens@chebucto.ns.ca <BR> <B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, November 06, 2007 8:27 PM<BR> <B>Subject:</B> Re: [NatureNS] Labrador Loons (on Ice)<BR> <BR> Hi,<BR> <BR> 3 o4 years ago there was a story that ran for several days on CBC radio about someone rescuing a Loon in that situation from a partly frozen lake in NS. I forget the details, but perhaps someone else has them.<BR> <BR> Richard<BR> <BR> On 11/6/07, <B>Brian Dalzell</B> <dalzell@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote: <BR> <BLOCKQUOTE>Has anyone ever heard of loons staying on freshwater lakes too long into<BR> the fall and being (fatally) frozen in? There are currently at least<BR> half a dozen (record late) lingering loons in Labrador City. Each day<BR> the area of open water they are utilizing grows smaller. One would<BR> assume they would leave before these areas gets too small (<100 meters<BR> long) to take off from, but who knows?<BR> <BR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR> <BR> <BR> -- <BR> #################<BR> Richard Stern, <BR> 317 Middle Dyke Rd.<BR> Port Williams, NS, Canada<BR> B0P 1T0<BR> <BR> rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca<BR> rbstern@xcountry.tv<BR> sternrichard@gmail.com<BR> ################### <BR> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR> </BODY> </HTML> --Boundary_(ID_qW7u//2nSSh0d9JyNR0biw)--
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