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Index of Subjects --Apple-Mail-4--841371778 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Enjoyed your photos, Pat. Thanks. With John Belbin's permission, I have added photos of the Great Egret he took this morning. http://web.mac.com/sherm39/iWeb/Site/egret080309.html Sherman Sherman Williams shermw@xcountry.tv On 9/03/2008, at 4:36 PM, Patrick Kelly wrote: > Hello everyone: > > I went to see the egret at 3:00 PM. It was back in the brook on the > south side of the road. Twice I saw it stab at something and once > it did a "swallowing" motion, so it must have gotten something! > > Here are three pictures, that sort of shows the lay of the land. > The first was where the bird was when we first got there. I took a > series of pictures as it looked like it might have continued to the > right and gone out of sight behind a small hill. > > No sooner had put my camera down when in flew back towards the road > where I got some more pictures These are two pictures taken while > it went hunting across a small pond. > > http://myweb.dal.ca/pmkelly/GreatEgret1.jpg > http://myweb.dal.ca/pmkelly/GreatEgret2.jpg > http://myweb.dal.ca/pmkelly/GreatEgret3.jpg > > It is not all that often that I get a new life bird so close to home! > > Pat > > > > On Mar 9, 2008, at 12:06 PM, john belbin wrote: > >> I rushed out as soon as I saw Sherman's email this morning. The >> Great Egret >> has now moved and is feeding on the north side of the road. It >> stays close >> to the edges of the area bordering the stream but appears to be >> feeding >> reasonably well. It goes to hide as soon as you take an obvious >> interest in >> it and with patchy snow it is surprising hard to find through a >> camera >> viewfinder. You can park in the area next to the sewer pumping >> station. I >> walked a short distance onto the edge of the Haliburton orchards >> and managed >> to get several photos, However, they won't be wonderful because of >> the rain, >> wind and generally poor lighting this morning. The farmer came to >> talk to me >> and told me that the bird had been feeding for some time in the >> south area >> but had just moved across the road. He said that he sees them there >> occasionally but never at this time of year. They usually show up >> after a >> hurricane or very major storm - maybe this one qualifies as a big >> storm. If >> so, keep your eyes open. >> >> John Belbin - >> Hantsport >> >> > > ====================================================================== > ==== > Patrick Kelly > Director of Computer Facilities > ====================================================================== > ==== > Faculty of Architecture and Planning > Dalhousie University > ====================================================================== > ==== > PO Box 1000 Stn Central 5410 Spring Garden Road > Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 2X4 > Canada Canada > ====================================================================== > ==== > Phone:(902) 494-3294 FAX:(902) 423-6672 E- > mail:patrick.kelly@dal.ca > ====================================================================== > ==== > --Apple-Mail-4--841371778 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br = class=3D"webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Enjoyed your photos, Pat. = Thanks.</div><div><br class=3D"webkit-block-placeholder"></div>With=A0John= Belbin's=A0=A0permission, I have added photos of the Great Egret he = took this morning.<div><br = class=3D"webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><a = href=3D"http://web.mac.com/sherm39/iWeb/Site/egret080309.html">http://web.= mac.com/sherm39/iWeb/Site/egret080309.html</a><br><div> <span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; = font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: = normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; = -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; = -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; = white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><br = class=3D"webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Sherman</div><div><br = class=3D"webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Sherman = Williams</div><div><a = href=3D"mailto:shermw@xcountry.tv">shermw@xcountry.tv</a></div><div><br = class=3D"khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br><div><div>On = 9/03/2008, at 4:36 PM, Patrick Kelly wrote:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">Hello everyone:</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: = normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; = "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">I went to see the egret at = 3:00 PM. It was back in the brook on the south side of the road. Twice I = saw it stab at something and once it did a "swallowing" motion, so it = must have gotten something!</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal = normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">Here are three pictures, that sort of shows the lay of = the land. The first was where the bird was when we first got there. I = took a series of pictures as it looked like it might have continued to = the right and gone out of sight behind a small hill.</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; m