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Index of Subjects ------=_Part_12299_10493027.1215552053782 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi, A few years ago after photographing a Gt.Horned Owl's nest near Kingston, I realized that my cell phone had fallen off my belt and I went back, crawling around the undergrowth etc. looking for it. I never found it, and for all I know it's still there! Anyway, when I got home I was covered in ticks. I didn't count them, but I'm sure 43 would be an underestimate. I thought I got them all off, but there were still some in my clothing, and some that managed to crawl into the bedding and onto Liz, who was horrified (we're still married, by the way). Next morning I really thought I had got them all off, but as I was sitting watching a video-conference at the hospital, I was aware of several more on my arms and neck that had started to embed - but I again managed to get them all off just by pulling the heads out. Luckily none of this happened in front of any patients, and I never got Lyme Disease. I know Murray would like this story! Richard On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Roland McCormick < roland.mccormick@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: > After reading all of the e-mails concerning wood ticks I would like to add > that if you have been birding in wood tick country you should check your > body each night to make certain there are no ticks there. I was surprised > that no one noted that the ticks will give you at least ten hours before > they start trying to get at your blood - perhaps everyone knows that, or > perhaps there are other types of ticks that do not act like our common > woodticks. > What is the record for the most ticks in one day? A few years ago I > went trout fishing - I pulled wool socks up over my pant legs - no rubber > boots - and picked up 43 ticks in one afternoon. > > Roland (Barrington) > -- ################# Dr.Richard Stern, 70 Exhibition St. Kentville, NS, Canada B4N 4K9 Richard Stern, 317 Middle Dyke Rd. Port Williams, NS, Canada B0P 1T0 rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca rbstern@xcountry.tv sternrichard@gmail.com ################### ------=_Part_12299_10493027.1215552053782 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi,<br><br>A few years ago after photographing a Gt.Horned Owl's nest near Kingston, I realized that my cell phone had fallen off my belt and I went back, crawling around the undergrowth etc. looking for it. I never found it, and for all I know it's still there! Anyway, when I got home I was covered in ticks. I didn't count them, but I'm sure 43 would be an underestimate. I thought I got them all off, but there were still some in my clothing, and some that managed to crawl into the bedding and onto Liz, who was horrified (we're still married, by the way). Next morning I really thought I had got them all off, but as I was sitting watching a video-conference at the hospital, I was aware of several more on my arms and neck that had started to embed - but I again managed to get them all off just by pulling the heads out. Luckily none of this happened in front of any patients, and I never got Lyme Disease.<br> <br>I know Murray would like this story!<br><br>Richard<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Roland McCormick <roland.mccormick@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:<br> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">After reading all of the e-mails concerning wood ticks I would like to add that if you have been birding in wood tick country you should check your body each night to make certain there are no ticks there. I was surprised that no one noted that the ticks will give you at least ten hours before they start trying to get at your blood - perhaps everyone knows that, or perhaps there are other types of ticks that do not act like our common woodticks.<br> What is the record for the most ticks in one day? A few years ago I went trout fishing - I pulled wool socks up over my pant legs - no rubber boots - and picked up 43 ticks in one afternoon.<br> <br> Roland (Barrington) <br> </blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>#################<br>Dr.Richard Stern, <br>70 Exhibition St.<br>Kentville, NS, Canada<br>B4N 4K9<br><br>Richard Stern, <br>317 Middle Dyke Rd.<br>Port Williams, NS, Canada<br> B0P 1T0<br><br>rbstern@ns.sympatico.ca
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