[NatureNS] Strange sight in Eel Lake

Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 20:05:32 -0300
From: pgould@staff.ednet.ns.ca
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
References: <4AE3BC30.8090505@hfx.eastlink.ca>
User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.1.6)
Precedence: bulk
Return-Path: <naturens-mml-owner@chebucto.ns.ca>
Original-Recipient: rfc822;"| (cd /csuite/info/Environment/FNSN/MList; /csuite/lib/arch2html)"

next message in archive
no next message in thread
previous message in archive
previous message in thread
Index of Subjects

Index of Subjects
Hello,

I had seen seal(s) in the lake a few times when I used to live in Eel Brook.

That area has always been a great spot for ring-billed gulls.

Paul Gould
Quinan, NS



Quoting Dusan Soudek <soudekd@ns.sympatico.ca>:

> Hi all,
>   my guess would be that the creature you saw may have been a harbour
> seal, rather than a harbour porpoise. There are numerous records of
> harbour seals making their way on occasions upriver into strictly
> freshwater environments. There are freshwater lakes in the Canadian
> Arctic that support permanent harbour seal populations. And there are a
> number of sightings over the years of harbour seals in Dartmouth's
> Sullivan Pond. I have never heard of a harbour porpoise in freshwater.
>   Dusan Soudek
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "nhungjohn" <nhungjohn@eastlink.ca>
> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 6:57 PM
> Subject: [NatureNS] Strange sight in Eel Lake
>
>
>> To:  All
>>
>> From:  John Sollows
>>
>> Date:  October 25/09
>>
>> This afternoon, my wife and  ook a short drive to catch the little remaining
>> foliage, which  is disappearing unseaonably rapidly down here in Yarmouth
>> County. (Oh, those breezes!)
>>
>> About 3 P.M. today, we crossed the old Eel Lake bridge, and noticed a flock
>> of smallish gulls (ring bills?) and a smallish raft of cormorants
>> congregating a little south of the bridge.  In the midst of it all,
>> something much too large to be prey surfaced briefly a number of times and
>> moved to the southwest of us.
>>
>> Porpoise?  That is how the behaviour and appearance struck me.   I wonder if
>> one found its way into the lake throgh the shallow guzzle that connects to
>> Lobster Bay, during some of the recent very high tides.
>>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
> No virus found in this incoming message.
> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com
> Version: 8.5.423 / Virus Database: 270.14.28/2454 - Release Date:
> 10/23/09 14:09:00



next message in archive
no next message in thread
previous message in archive
previous message in thread
Index of Subjects