Cattail leaf shelters: was Re: [NatureNS] ducks & egg-dumping,

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Hi Jim & All,                July 3, 2010
    In years past I used to visit cattail swamps for feeds of catkin (male part just before pollen is shed) and fairly often ran into spider shelters that were constructed by folding the tapered leaves; top bent out of the page, left edge secured to underlying part on a diagonal to right and tip folded back up and secured to the right edges.

    Are such spider shelters also found in Alberta ?

YT, Dave Webster, Kentville
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: James W. Wolford 
  To: NatureNS 
  Cc: Randy Milton 
  Sent: Friday, July 02, 2010 3:01 PM
  Subject: [NatureNS] ducks & egg-dumping, + nature notes


  Speaking of egg-dumping of ducks, this past Saturday's (June 26) Quirks and Quarks had a very interesting item that took me back to my graduate student days in southern Alberta, when I was wading in cattail marshes every day for three summers in the 1960's and learning an incredible amount of natural history in so doing.



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<DIV><FONT size=2>Hi Jim &amp; All,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; 
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; July 3, 2010</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In years past I used to visit cattail 
swamps for feeds of catkin (male part just before pollen is shed) and fairly 
often ran into spider shelters that were constructed by folding the tapered 
leaves; top bent out of the page, left edge secured to underlying part&nbsp;on a 
diagonal to right and tip folded back up and secured to the&nbsp;right 
edges.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Are&nbsp;such spider shelters also found in 
Alberta ?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>YT, Dave Webster, Kentville</FONT></DIV>
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  style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> 
  <A title=jimwolford@eastlink.ca href="mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">James W. 
  Wolford</A> </DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=naturens@chebucto.ns.ca 
  href="mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">NatureNS</A> </DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=miltongr@gov.ns.ca 
  href="mailto:miltongr@gov.ns.ca">Randy Milton</A> </DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, July 02, 2010 3:01 PM</DIV>
  <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [NatureNS] ducks &amp; 
  egg-dumping, + nature notes</DIV>
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  <DIV style="MARGIN: 0px"><FONT style="FONT: 13px Verdana" size=4 
  face=Verdana>Speaking of <B>egg-dumping of ducks</B>, this past <B>Saturday's 
  (June 26) Quirks and Quarks</B> had a very interesting item that took me back 
  to my graduate student days in southern Alberta, when I was wading in cattail 
  marshes every day for three summers in the 1960's and learning an incredible 
  amount of natural history in so doing.</FONT></DIV>
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