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Your story of migrating birds falling in the water called to mind my =20 earlier experience, and I wondered if something similar was happening. =97 Paul Boyer On May 6, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Carl Haycock wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Carl Haycock > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 4:37 PM > Subject: fallout > > While lobster fishing today there were thousands of birds flying =20 > over head flying north all day long. They were also lighting on the =20= > boats, falling in the water and getting scooped up by gulls. Coming =20= > home the island is inundated with sparrows and warblers. A major =20 > migration/fallout that I haven't seen before in such huge numbers. =20 > Also finches, humingbirds, sapsuckers,grosbeaks. Can't wait to go =20 > have a look around. > > Carl Haycock > Brier Island --Apple-Mail-9--127837793 Content-Type: text/html; charset=WINDOWS-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Why do the birds which land on = the boat often fall into the water?<div><br></div><div>This raises a = question which has puzzled me for years. Long ago I was working on = a shrimp boat in the Gulf of Mexico, and a migrating warbler landed on = our small vessel. He hopped around catching various gnats, at = times coming close to us, showing no fear, and acting in good health. = One of the crew shook his head ominously, and said: "He will die. = You watch him." With a few minutes I found the warbler dead, in = the middle of a coil of rope. The cook told me that whenever a = migrating bird lands on the boat, he dies.</div><div><br></div><div>I = have never read such a thing, and cannot guess why a restful stopover = should have hurt that warbler. The wind was fresh, so fumes from = the diesel probably cannot be blamed. It is a mystery to = me.</div><div><br></div><div>Your story of migrating birds falling in = the water called to mind my earlier experience, and I wondered if = something similar was happening.</div><div><br></div><div>=97 Paul = Boyer</div><div><br><div><div>On May 6, 2008, at 3:39 PM, Carl Haycock = wrote:</div><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: = separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: 14px; = font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; = letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: = auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div = bgcolor=3D"#ffffff"><div> </div><div style=3D"font: normal normal = normal 10pt/normal arial; ">----- Original Message -----<div = style=3D"background-image: initial; background-repeat: initial; = background-attachment: initial; -webkit-background-clip: initial; = -webkit-background-origin: initial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, = 228); background-position: initial initial; "><b>From:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = title=3D"foggy@ns.sympatico.ca" href=3D"mailto:foggy@ns.sympatico.ca">Carl= Haycock</a></div><div><b>To:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = title=3D"naturens@chebucto.ns.ca" = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></div><= div><b>Sent:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tuesday, May 06, 2008 4:37 = PM</div><div><b>Subject:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>fallout</div></div><div><br><= /div><div><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"2">While lobster fishing today = there were thousands of birds flying over head flying north all day = long. They were also lighting on the boats, falling in the water and = getting scooped up by gulls. Coming home the island is inundated with = sparrows and warblers. A major migration/fallout that I haven't seen = before in such huge numbers. Also finches, humingbirds, = sapsuckers,grosbeaks. Can't wait to go have a look = around.</font></div><div><font face=3D"Arial" = size=3D"2"></font> </div><div><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"2">Carl = Haycock</font></div><div><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"2">Brier = Island</font></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html= >= --Apple-Mail-9--127837793--
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