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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_Gr7Y9yfBRNJ4mwA9EFI6/A) Content-type: multipart/alternative; boundary="Boundary_(ID_0skhuwkGGhheE/K6ArjQ8Q)" --Boundary_(ID_0skhuwkGGhheE/K6ArjQ8Q) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Many thanks to Clarence Stevens for his Naturens invitation yesterday to see what life was moving about at Julie's Pond in Hemlock Ravine, Halifax, on an early-spring evening. Backswimmers, Waterboatman, and a few male Yellow-Spotted Salamanders were in the pond. Thanks to Clarence's net, we got to see two of these species close-up. Here are five photos of the Salamanders -- as you can see from the 5th photo, my daughter was delighted to be holding one for the first time. The arrangement of spots on each salamander is, like a snowflake design, unique. (A Wood Frog and a Barred Owl were also heard, but I had to leave before either was seen.) As many of you may know, over the past decade or so the irresponsible release of pet goldfish has seriously affected the population of native species in the pond. Brian You are invited to view Brian's photo album: Yellow-spotted Salamander Yellow-spotted Salamander Apr 14, 2008 by Brian View Album Play slideshow If you are having problems viewing this email, copy and paste the following into your browser: http://picasaweb.google.com/bbartlett53/YellowSpottedSalamander?authkey=e7zI6eGnoXA To share your photos or receive notification when your friends share photos, get your own free Picasa Web Albums account. --Boundary_(ID_0skhuwkGGhheE/K6ArjQ8Q) Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.3314" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: white" bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2>Many thanks to Clarence Stevens for his Naturens invitation yesterday to see what life was moving about at Julie's Pond in Hemlock Ravine, Halifax, on an early-spring evening. Backswimmers, Waterboatman, and a few male Yellow-Spotted Salamanders were in the pond. Thanks to Clarence's net, we got to see two of these species close-up. Here are five photos of the Salamanders -- as you can see from the 5th photo, my daughter was delighted to be holding one for the first time. The arrangement of spots on each salamander is, like a snowflake design, unique. (A Wood Frog and a Barred Owl were also heard, but I had to leave before either was seen.) As many of you may know, over the past decade or so the irresponsible release of pet goldfish has seriously affected the population of native species in the pond.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Brian</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2></FONT> </DIV> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=600 border=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD width=10 bgColor=#e1ecff><FONT size=2></FONT></TD> <TD style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 0.8em; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 0.8em; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.6em; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0.6em; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid" width=*> <DIV style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.6em; COLOR: #333">You are invited to view Brian's photo album: <A href="http://picasaweb.google.com/bbartlett53/YellowSpottedSalamander?authkey=e7zI6eGnoXA">Yellow-spotted Salamander</A></DIV> <DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 0.8em; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 0.8em; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.8em; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0.8em; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #f5f5f5"> <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0> <TBODY> <TR> <TD vAlign=top> <DIV style="BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-RIGHT: 7px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 7px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 7px; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 7px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fff"><A href="http://picasaweb.google.com/bbartlett53/YellowSpottedSalamander?authkey=e7zI6eGnoXA"><IMG style="BORDER-RIGHT: #7f7f7f 1px solid; BORDER-TOP: #7f7f7f 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #7f7f7f 1px solid; BORDER-BOTTOM: #7f7f7f 1px solid" src="cid:001901c89e39$1e1890b0$6400a8c0@D43JG391"></A> </DIV></TD> <TD style="PADDING-LEFT: 0.7em; COLOR: #666" vAlign=top> <DIV style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 11pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.1em; COLOR: #333">Yellow-spotted Salamander</DIV> <DIV style="DISPLAY: inline; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0.2em">Apr 14, 2008<BR>by <B>Brian</B> </DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; MARGIN: 0.5em 0px 0.3em; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: #b3b3b3 1px dotted"></DIV> <DIV style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.3em"><A style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" href="http://picasaweb.google.com/bbartlett53/YellowSpottedSalamander?authkey=e7zI6eGnoXA">View Album</A> <BR><A style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt" href="http://picasaweb.google.com/bbartlett53/YellowSpottedSalamander/photo?authkey=e7zI6eGnoXA#5189094886642903314">Play slideshow</A> </DIV></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN-TOP: 1em; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: #666">If you are having problems viewing this email, copy and paste the following into your browser:<BR><A href="http://picasaweb.google.com/bbartlett53/YellowSpottedSalamander?authkey=e7zI6eGnoXA">http://picasaweb.google.com/bbartlett53/YellowSpottedSalamander?authkey=e7zI6eGnoXA</A> </DIV> <DIV style="MARGIN-TOP: 0.6em; FONT-WEIGHT: normal; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; COLOR: #666">To share your photos or receive notification when your friends share photos, <A href="http://picasaweb.google.com">get your own free Picasa Web Albums account</A>.</DIV> <DIV style="PADDING-RIGHT: 6px; PADDING-LEFT: 6px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 6px; PADDING-TOP: 6px; TEXT-ALIGN: right"><A href="http://picasaweb.google.com"><IMG src="cid:001a01c89e39$1e1890b0$6400a8c0@D43JG391" border=0> </A></DIV></TD> <TD width=10 bgColor=#e1ecff></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><