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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
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