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class=3D"Apple-interchan This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0024_01CA5659.8768A260 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi I very sorry about that for some reason my new computer started = resing to the first email addree that was there I got it stoped but = about 10 times it sent the same empty message over and over again I = posted on Nat. N>S,. but you must of missed as I said I was very sorry = for the mess up Peter=20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Nancy Roberts=20 To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca=20 Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 1:25 PM Subject: Re: [NatureNS] re porpoise? or seal? in Eel Lake Hello, Peter, I am a NatureNS subscriber. I received the email below with no = message. This happened time after time last week, so I am letting you = know immediately this week. Cheers, Nancy Nancy Roberts Design Celebrating 17 years of making you look GOOD Dartmouth, NS B2Y 2X6 902 461-9488 On 26-Oct-09, at 1:46 PM, Peter Angus Mac Leod wrote: ----- Original Message ----- From: Randy Lauff To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [NatureNS] re porpoise? or seal? in Eel Lake Whales have external parasites...a foray into fresh water would = kill them. I don't know if seals are subject to external parasites as = much as whales; none of the seals that have crossed my lab space have = had obvious external parasites. Perhaps seals are lost, though perhaps = those who venture into FW know they have a parasite problem and are = going there to rid themselves of the infestation? Randy 2009/10/26 James W. Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> 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: ... ----- 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. _________________________________ RF Lauff Way in the boonies of Antigonish County, NS. ------=_NextPart_000_0024_01CA5659.8768A260 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=3DGENERATOR> <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><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hi I very sorry about that for some = reason my new=20 computer started resing to the first email addree that was there I got = it stoped=20 but about 10 times it sent the same empty message over and over again I = posted=20 on Nat. N>S,. but you must of missed as I said I was very sorry for = the mess=20 up Peter </FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=3Dltr=20 style=3D"PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV=20 style=3D"BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B>=20 <A title=3Dnancy.roberts@ns.sympatico.ca=20 href=3D"mailto:nancy.roberts@ns.sympatico.ca">Nancy Roberts</A> </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=3Dnaturens@chebucto.ns.ca=20 href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</A> = </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 26, 2009 = 1:25=20 PM</DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NatureNS] re = porpoise? or=20 seal? in Eel Lake</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Hello, Peter, <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>I am a NatureNS subscriber. I received the email below with no = message.=20 This happened time after time last week, so I am letting you know = immediately=20 this week.</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Cheers,</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Nancy<BR> <DIV><SPAN class=3DApple-style-span=20 style=3D"WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica; TEXT-TRANSFORM: = none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; = LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: = 2; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: = none; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0"> <DIV=20 style=3D"WORD-WRAP: break-word; webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = webkit-line-break: after-white-space"><SPAN=20 class=3DApple-style-span=20 style=3D"WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica; TEXT-TRANSFORM: = none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; = LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: = 2; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: = none; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"> <DIV=20 style=3D"WORD-WRAP: break-word; webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = webkit-line-break: after-white-space"><SPAN=20 class=3DApple-style-span=20 style=3D"WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica; TEXT-TRANSFORM: = none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; = LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: = 2; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: = none; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: = 0px"><SPAN=20 class=3DApple-style-span=20 style=3D"WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Helvetica; TEXT-TRANSFORM: = none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; = LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: = 2; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: = none; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"> <DIV><BR class=3DApple-interchange-newline>Nancy Roberts Design</DIV> <DIV>Celebrating 17 years of making you look GOOD</DIV> <DIV><BR class=3Dwebkit-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>Dartmouth, NS B2Y 2X6</DIV> <DIV>902 461-9488</DIV><BR = class=3DApple-interchange-newline></SPAN><BR=20 = class=3DApple-interchange-newline></SPAN></DIV></SPAN></DIV></SPAN></DIV>= <BR> <DIV> <DIV>On 26-Oct-09, at 1:46 PM, Peter Angus Mac Leod wrote:</DIV><BR=20 class=3DApple-interchange-newline> <BLOCKQUOTE type=3D"cite"><SPAN class=3DApple-style-span=20 style=3D"WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: medium Helvetica; TEXT-TRANSFORM: = none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; = LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; orphans: 2; widows: = 2; webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: = none; webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px"> <DIV bgcolor=3D"#ffffff"> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=3Dltr=20 style=3D"PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: rgb(0,0,0) 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----</DIV> <DIV=20 style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(228,228,228); = webkit-background-clip: initial; webkit-background-origin: = initial"><B>From:</B><SPAN=20 class=3DApple-converted-space> </SPAN><A = title=3Drandy.lauff@gmail.com=20 href=3D"mailto:randy.lauff@gmail.com">Randy Lauff</A></DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B><SPAN=20 class=3DApple-converted-space> </SPAN><A = title=3Dnaturens@chebucto.ns.ca=20 = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</A></DIV>= <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B><SPAN=20 class=3DApple-converted-space> </SPAN>Monday, October 26, = 2009 10:54=20 AM</DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B><SPAN=20 class=3DApple-converted-space> </SPAN>Re: [NatureNS] re = porpoise? or=20 seal? in Eel Lake</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Whales have external parasites...a foray into fresh = water=20 would kill them. I don't know if seals are subject to external = parasites=20 as much as whales; none of the seals that have crossed my lab = space have=20 had obvious external parasites. Perhaps seals are lost, though = perhaps=20 those who venture into FW know they have a parasite problem and = are going=20 there to rid themselves of the infestation? <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>Randy<BR><BR> <DIV class=3Dgmail_quote>2009/10/26 James W. Wolford<SPAN=20 class=3DApple-converted-space> </SPAN><SPAN dir=3Dltr><<A=20 = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</A>></SP= AN><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=3Dgmail_quote=20 style=3D"PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; = BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid"> <DIV style=3D"WORD-WRAP: break-word">Here in the Wolfville area, = there=20 have been periodic records of harbour porpoises (as well as = harbour and=20 young harp seals even) heading inland at least along the tidal = parts of=20 the mouth of the Cornwallis River, as far as New Minas and = perhaps=20 further. I also recall an incidence of a harbour seal up = the=20 Kennetcook River as far as Stanley (photographed). Jim in=20 Wolfville<BR> <DIV><BR> <DIV>Begin forwarded message:</DIV><BR> <BLOCKQUOTE type=3D"cite"> <BLOCKQUOTE type=3D"cite"> <DIV style=3D"MIN-HEIGHT: 14px; MARGIN: 0px"><FONT=20 class=3DApple-style-span face=3DHelvetica size=3D3><SPAN=20 class=3DApple-style-span=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 12px"><B>...</B></SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV style=3D"MIN-HEIGHT: 14px; MARGIN: 0px"><BR></DIV> <DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">----- Original Message ----- = From:=20 "nhungjohn" <<A href=3D"mailto:nhungjohn@eastlink.ca"=20 target=3D_blank>nhungjohn@eastlink.ca</A>></DIV> <DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">To: <<A=20 href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca"=20 target=3D_blank>naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</A>></DIV> <DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2009 = 6:57=20 PM</DIV> <DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">Subject: [NatureNS] Strange sight = in Eel=20 Lake</DIV> <DIV style=3D"MIN-HEIGHT: 14px; MARGIN: 0px"><BR></DIV> <DIV style=3D"MIN-HEIGHT: 14px; MARGIN: 0px"><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type=3D"cite"> <DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">To:<SPAN> <SPAN=20 = class=3DApple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>All</DIV> <DIV style=3D"MIN-HEIGHT: 14px; MARGIN: 0px"><BR></DIV> <DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">From:<SPAN> <SPAN=20 class=3DApple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>John = Sollows</DIV> <DIV style=3D"MIN-HEIGHT: 14px; MARGIN: 0px"><BR></DIV> <DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">Date:<SPAN> <SPAN=20 class=3DApple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>October=20 25/09</DIV> <DIV style=3D"MIN-HEIGHT: 14px; MARGIN: 0px"><BR></DIV> <DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">This afternoon, my wife = and<SPAN> I=20 t</SPAN>ook a short drive to catch the little=20 remaining foliage, which<SPAN> <SPAN=20 class=3DApple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>is = disappearing=20 unseaonably rapidly down here in Yarmouth County. = (Oh, those=20 breezes!)</DIV> <DIV style=3D"MIN-HEIGHT: 14px; MARGIN: 0px"><BR></DIV> <DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">About 3 P.M. today, we crossed = the old=20 Eel Lake bridge, and noticed a flock of smallish = gulls (ring=20 bills?) and a smallish raft of = cormorants congregating a=20 little south of the bridge.<SPAN> <SPAN=20 class=3DApple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>In the = midst of it=20 all, something much too large to be prey surfaced = briefly a=20 number of times and moved to the southwest of = us.</DIV> <DIV style=3D"MIN-HEIGHT: 14px; MARGIN: 0px"><BR></DIV> <DIV style=3D"MARGIN: 0px">Porpoise?<SPAN> <SPAN=20 class=3DApple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>That is = how the=20 behaviour and appearance struck me.<SPAN=20 = class=3DApple-converted-space> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN>I=20 wonder if one found its way into the lake throgh the = shallow=20 guzzle that connects to Lobster Bay, during some of = the=20 recent very high=20 = tides.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUO= TE></DIV><BR>_________________________________<BR>RF=20 Lauff<BR>Way in the boonies of<BR>Antigonish County,=20 = NS.<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BLO= CKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0024_01CA5659.8768A260--
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