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--Boundary_(ID_qiqJv872Ql/sqPWQ/6cA0Q) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Here in the Wolfville area, there have been periodic records of harbour porpoises (as well as harbour and young harp seals even) heading inland at least along the tidal parts of the mouth of the Cornwallis River, as far as New Minas and perhaps further. I also recall an incidence of a harbour seal up the Kennetcook River as far as Stanley (photographed). Jim in Wolfville Begin forwarded message: > From: pgould@staff.ednet.ns.ca > Date: October 25, 2009 8:05:32 PM ADT > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Strange sight in Eel Lake > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > 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 I took 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 > > > --Boundary_(ID_qiqJv872Ql/sqPWQ/6cA0Q) Content-type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> Here in the Wolfville area, there have been periodic records of harbour = porpoises (as well as harbour and young harp seals even) heading inland = at least along the tidal parts of the mouth of the Cornwallis River, as = far as New Minas and perhaps further. I also recall an incidence = of a harbour seal up the Kennetcook River as far as Stanley = (photographed). Jim in Wolfville<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded = message:</div><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:pgould@staff.ednet.ns.ca">pgould@staff.ednet.ns.ca</a></fon= t></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">October 25, 2009 8:05:32 PM = ADT</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font>= </div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>Re: [NatureNS] Strange sight in Eel = Lake</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Reply-To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font>= </div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> <div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; ">Hello,</div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: = 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I had seen seal(s) in the lake a = few times when I used to live in Eel Brook.</div><div style=3D"margin-top:= 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = min-height: 14px; "