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Index of Subjects Here's what I found so far and they didn't mention hard boiled chicken eggs in the TV news: Plans to help protect Piping Plovers Scientists will lace fake nests with poison Updated: Monday, 15 Feb 2010, 4:24 PM EST Published : Monday, 15 Feb 2010, 11:59 PM EST There are plans to save endangered Piping Plovers. Federal scientists are planning to use poison to protect the birds from crows on some Cape Cod beaches. This Spring, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will create fake plover nests on two beaches and fill them with hard-boiled chicken eggs that have been laced with poison. Crows are the number one predator of plover eggs and similar measures have been used in other areas of the country. When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. John Muir ----- Original Message ----- From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> Date: Monday, February 15, 2010 5:38 pm Subject: [NatureNS] 1000 Can. geese + 1000 ducks in aft. flyover n. of Pt. Wms. To: NatureNS <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> > > Martin's walk was on Sat., Feb. 13, and he lives north of Port > > Williams at the south edge of Canard River Valley. Jim in Wolfville > > > > > >> From: Martin Thomas <harthomas@ns.sympatico.ca> > >> Date: February 15, 2010 3:05:51 PM AST > >> To: "'James W. Wolford'" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > >> Subject: RE: re 1000 geese + 1000 ducks > >> > >> Dear Jim: > >> I always walk from about 4-5PM. There were smaller numbers on > > >> previous days but always on the same flight path. Cheers Martin. > >> > >> From: James W. Wolford [mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca] > >> Sent: 15 February 2010 13:30 > >> To: Martin (& Mary Lou Harley) Thomas > >> Subject: re 1000 geese + 1000 ducks > >> > >> Thanks, Martin -- WOW! Nobody else has reported such to me -- be > > >> sure to mention it tonight at the BNS meeting? -- your afternoon > >> walk is between 4 and 5 p.m.? I gather this was on Saturday, > >> Feb. 13? Cheers and thanks from Jim > >> > >> Begin forwarded message: > >> > >>> From: Martin Thomas <harthomas@ns.sympatico.ca> > >>> Date: February 15, 2010 10:22:36 AM AST > >>> To: "'James W. Wolford'" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > >>> Subject: Returned email > >>> > >>> Dear Jim: > >>> > >>> I have just come back in after walking the dog around the > >>> subdivision and the afternoon flyover exceeded all expectations. > > >>> As soon as I went outside at 1610, I could hear geese and soon a > > >>> huge flock appeared from the NW going SE and this time not > >>> descending into the local fields. Trying to count them presents > >>> great difficulties as they start disappearing before one gets > >>> very far. But from counting part of the big flock and adding > >>> others in smaller groups, there cannot be much fewer than 1000. > >>> Soon after the geese came innumerable ducks on much the same > >>> flight path. At one time the sky over the lowland between us and > > >>> Canning was entirely speckled in ducks the numbers must be close > > >>> to those for the Canada Geese. Has anyone else reported these > >>> flyovers; unless you were out at the right time and place they > >>> would be difficult to see. Other ducks come from other westerly > >>> directions and join the main flock. Wherever they are going there > > >>> must be a huge concentration of water birds unless they disperse > > >>> again after going overhead here. > >>> > >>> All the best, Martin. > >>> > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Nature mailing list > > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > > http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/ > > nature_blomidonnaturalists.ca >
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