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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001A_01CD1D46.714C8990 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Ken McKenna Box 218 Stellarton NS B0K 1S0 902 752-7644 Hi all Yesterday while birding on Big I. Charlie Kendell, Rick Ferguson and I = noted Common Grackles ensnared in lobster traps sitting on the wharf. = Several were repeatedly trying to get out without success and at least = one was in rigor mortis with its head stuck through the meshing. =20 Years ago I can remember freeing a Ruffed Grouse trapped in lobster trap = at Caribou PP, but I had not seen anything like this since.=20 In this case, the traps were piled such that they were hard to access = without a boat and were all tied together with a rope so that individual = traps could not be moved around. We were thus unable to do anything = about the situation. This morning I called the local DNR office in = MacLellans Brook to see if they might be able to do something and the = problem has been passed to the Wildlife officer.=20 I am wondering how widespread this might be? Common Grackles are = certainly not in any danger of having their population depleted, but it = is a shame to see a bird suffer while struggling to free itself. =20 Ken ------=_NextPart_000_001A_01CD1D46.714C8990 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 8.00.6001.19190"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>Ken McKenna<BR>Box 218 Stellarton = NS<BR>B0K=20 1S0<BR>902 752-7644<BR></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>Hi all</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>Yesterday while birding on Big I. = Charlie Kendell,=20 Rick Ferguson and I noted Common Grackles ensnared in lobster traps = sitting on=20 the wharf. Several were repeatedly trying to get out without success and = at=20 least one was in rigor mortis with its head stuck through the = meshing. =20 </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>Years ago I can remember freeing a = Ruffed Grouse=20 trapped in lobster trap at Caribou PP, but I had not seen anything like = this=20 since. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>In this case, the traps were piled such = that they=20 were hard to access without a boat and were all tied together with = a rope=20 so that individual traps could not be moved around. We were thus unable = to do=20 anything about the situation. This morning I called the local DNR office = in=20 MacLellans Brook to see if they might be able to do something and the = problem=20 has been passed to the Wildlife officer. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>I am wondering how widespread this = might be? Common=20 Grackles are certainly not in any danger of having their population = depleted,=20 but it is a shame to see a bird suffer while struggling to = free=20 itself. </FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>Ken</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_001A_01CD1D46.714C8990--
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