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Index of Subjects This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0035_01C82234.A91A5C60 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable re ice trapping loons and other birdsJust as Jim mentioned about birds = of prey setting up camp near these openings in the ice. So to di a = mature Bauld Eagle set up camp over this loon. Making frequent dives at = it adding to the stress and speeding up the weakening of this bird. I = guess the only looser disapointed in this loon rescue was the Eagle. Tom K Canso ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Jim Wolford=20 To: NatureNS=20 Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:58 PM Subject: [NatureNS] re ice trapping loons and other birds 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 -----=20 From: Richard Stern <mailto:sternrichard@gmail.com> =20 To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca=20 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:=20 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? --=20 ################# Richard Stern,=20 317 Middle Dyke Rd. Port Williams, NS, Canada B0P 1T0 rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca rbstern@xcountry.tv sternrichard@gmail.com ###################=20 ------=_NextPart_000_0035_01C82234.A91A5C60 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><TITLE>re ice trapping loons and other birds</TITLE> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1561" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Just as Jim mentioned about birds = of prey=20 setting up camp near these openings in the ice. So to di a mature Bauld = Eagle=20 set up camp over this loon. Making frequent dives at it adding to the = stress and=20 speeding up the weakening of this bird. I guess the only looser = disapointed in=20 this loon rescue was the Eagle.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Tom K</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Canso</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE=20 style=3D"PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV=20 style=3D"BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B>=20 <A title=3Djimwolford@eastlink.ca = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">Jim=20 Wolford</A> </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=3Dnaturens@chebucto.ns.ca=20 href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">NatureNS</A> </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, November 08, = 2007 4:58=20 PM</DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [NatureNS] re ice = trapping loons=20 and other birds</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>I can add an ancient note to this subject:<BR><BR>In my = days in=20 central Alberta, 35-40 years ago (yipe!!), in certain years similar = phenomena=20 occurred on lakes east of Edmonton, specifically Cooking and = especially=20 Hastings Lake, as I recall. The advancing ice in late autumn = would=20 produce open holes of water that gradually became smaller and smaller, = and=20 always seemed to attract a variety of ducks, like scaups and = goldeneyes etc.=20 These lakes were shallow and very productive, being full of = amphipod=20 crustaceans, larvae of midge flies, etc. etc. These = concentrations of=20 small numbers of waterfowl also attracted predators, like bald eagles = and=20 newly-arrived snowy owls for the winter. Such predators took = advantage=20 of these apparently easy-to-catch prey (weakening?).<BR><BR>Cheers? = from Jim=20 in Wolfville<BR>----------<BR><B>From: </B>Terri Crane=20 <terri.crane@ns.sympatico.ca><BR><B>Reply-To:=20 </B>naturens@