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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_03AB_01CA47A6.71A9B110 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable When we were in Keji in September they were having a particularly hard = time with aggressive raccoons around the campsites. We kept all food in = the car at night, and even at that you could hear the bandits snorting = and fighting the very minute you extinguished the fire and crawled into = your sleeping bag, overturning everything and anything in search of a = snack. They sounded more like storybook trolls or movie aliens than = neighbourly mammals. The rude little beasts have a taste for toothpaste, = one of the park attendants told my wife, and think nothing of trying to = get into tents if they sniff out something interesting. At first light this morning, biking to work, I saw a raccoon peeking out = from a tree den in Noggins Woods. He seemed just fine to me, up there = where he was supposed to be, neither fighting over toothpaste or = swarming seniors. A few meters farther down the trail I stopped to = checked out a small pile of dirt where last week I'd watched a little = mouse madly digging out a hole in the soft loam of the trail's edge. He = was all tail and hind legs, dirt flying, until he disappeared down his = hole. Nothing doing there today, so I looked up to carry on, just in = time to catch sight of a large, silent blur of feathers on the edge of = my field of vision. A barred owl! First one I've spotted in there this = year. I watched him up in the hemlocks for another twenty minutes or so, = making myself good and late for work. Andrew Steeves =B6 Wolfville ------=_NextPart_000_03AB_01CA47A6.71A9B110 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Dwindows-1252" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META name=3DGENERATOR content=3D"MSHTML 8.00.6001.18813"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY=20 style=3D"WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space"=20 bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV>When we were in Keji in September they were having a particularly = hard time=20 with aggressive raccoons around the campsites. We kept all food in the = car at=20 night, and even at that you could hear the bandits snorting and fighting = the=20 very minute you extinguished the fire and crawled into your sleeping = bag,=20 overturning everything and anything in search of a snack. They = sounded more=20 like storybook trolls or movie aliens than neighbourly = mammals. The=20 rude little beasts have a taste for toothpaste, one of the park = attendants told=20 my wife, and think nothing of trying to get into tents if they sniff out = something interesting.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>At first light this morning, biking to work, I saw a = raccoon=20 peeking out from a tree den in Noggins Woods. He seemed just fine to me, = up=20 there where he was supposed to be, neither fighting over toothpaste or = swarming=20 seniors. A few meters farther down the trail I=20 stopped to checked out a small pile of dirt where last = week I'd=20 watched a little mouse madly digging out a hole in the soft loam of the = trail's=20 edge. He was all tail and hind legs, dirt flying, until he = disappeared=20 down his hole. Nothing doing there today, so I looked up to carry on, = just in=20 time to catch sight of a large, silent blur of feathers = on the=20 edge of my field of vision. A barred owl! First one I've spotted in = there this=20 year. I watched him up in the hemlocks for another twenty minutes or so, = making=20 myself good and late for work.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Andrew Steeves =B6 Wolfville</DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_03AB_01CA47A6.71A9B110--
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