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Feb. 14, 2008 - In mid-morning Richard Hennigar and I met a group of 10 writers from all across Canada at Sheffield Mills to ³do² the BALD EAGLES and talk about the history of the EAGLE WATCH. Bill Swetnam put out large chicken carcasses (overnight mortalities) just before 10 a.m., but the ³show² this morning was disappointing -- very few eagles were to be seen, less than five, and they didn¹t show much interest in food. Even the couple of red-tailed hawks, a few ravens (and a crow), and a couple of great black-backed gulls likewise did not feed. One domestic dog (of two regulars this year) was approaching the carrion just as we were leaving. So we all went to the Community Hall, and, by the time we returned to the field, the ³eagle show² was over, and about 10 or so eagles were perched in the trees and eating, with the usual retinue of hopeful ravens looking for scraps. ----------------- Today at 5 p.m. in New Minas at the Superstore, I looked high up in the sky to see 6 plus 3 BALD EAGLES soaring in circles and slowly drifting southward; they were undoubtedly on their way to their long-established communal overnight roosting site in the dense coniferous? trees along the Gaspereau River several kilometres upstream from White Rock. On most winter days, a steady trickle of bald eagles, generally in small numbers at any one time, can be seen heading to this roost from mid-afternoon to dusk, the total numbering in the several dozens at least. There are undoubtedly other overnight roosting sites for eagles, but the best-known is the White Rock site. Cheers :-) from Jim in Wolfville, 542-9204 --------------------- Jim (James W.) Wolford 91 Wickwire Avenue Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada B4P 1W3 phone (902)542-9204 (home) fax (902)585-1059 (Acadia Univ. Biology Dept.) e-mail <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> ---------------------- ³...... the Earth .....belongs as much to those who come after us as to us; and we have no right, by anything that we do, or neglect to do, to involve them in unnecessary penalties, or to deprive them of benefits which are theirs by right.² - John Ruskin ----------------------
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