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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0026_01CCCF8E.4FF454E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Hans Toom=20 To: NS-RBA=20 Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:52 AM Subject: Common Gallinule Rescue Party The Common Gallinule is present this morning and trapped! The ice has = closed in around the crescent of reeds and grasses it was feeding upon. = The seed heads, its primary food, are now probably mostly eaten and the = bird may be starving. It is reluctant or may be incapable of flight due = to weakness. The next cold snap will finish it off. It is now time to rescue this bird and get it off to Hope for Wildlife. = I propose a party of four people, two in hip waders with large fishing = nets(three feet in diameter, or more) and two more people on the shore = holding ropes tethered to the two folks in the water. The water does not = appear to be more than two feet deep but dry clothes and towels are a = precaution as are the tethers.=20 Please contact me privately if you can help for a rescue attempt = tomorrow morning with; warm bodies, hip waders, fishing nets and rope. At this point photographers or birders will only stress the bird and = possibly kill it. Hans _________________________________________________________________________= ________________________________ Hans Toom Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada http://www.hanstoom.com/ ------=_NextPart_000_0026_01CCCF8E.4FF454E0 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 content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META name=3DGENERATOR content=3D"MSHTML 8.00.6001.19170"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----=20 <DIV style=3D"BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A=20 title=3Dhtoom@hfx.eastlink.ca href=3D"mailto:htoom@hfx.eastlink.ca">Hans = Toom</A>=20 </DIV> <DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=3DNS-RBA@yahoogroups.com=20 href=3D"mailto:NS-RBA@yahoogroups.com">NS-RBA</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:52 AM</DIV> <DIV><B>Subject:</B> Common Gallinule Rescue Party</DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>The <STRONG>Common Gallinule</STRONG> = is present=20 this morning and trapped! The ice has closed in around the crescent of = reeds and=20 grasses it was feeding upon. The seed heads, its primary food, are = now=20 probably mostly eaten and the bird may be starving. It is reluctant or = may be=20 incapable of flight due to weakness. The next cold snap will finish it=20 off.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial><STRONG>It is now time to rescue this = bird and get=20 it off to Hope for Wildlife</STRONG>. I propose a party of four people, = two in=20 hip waders with large fishing nets(three feet in diameter, or more) and = two more=20 people on the shore holding ropes tethered to the two folks in the = water.=20 The water does not appear to be more than two feet deep but dry clothes = and=20 towels are a precaution as are the tethers. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial><STRONG>Please contact me = privately</STRONG> if you=20 can help for a rescue attempt tomorrow morning with; warm bodies, hip = waders,=20 fishing nets and rope.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>At this point photographers or birders = will only=20 stress the bird and possibly kill it.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2=20 face=3DArial><BR>Hans<BR>________________________________________________= _________________________________________________________<BR>Hans=20 Toom<BR>Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR><A=20 href=3D"http://www.hanstoom.com/">http://www.hanstoom.com/</A></FONT></DI= V></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0026_01CCCF8E.4FF454E0--
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