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--Apple-Mail-28--315649868 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed JULY 22, 2012 (Sun.) - Yesterday Sherman Boates and Charlane Bishop- Boates found eggs of Peale's squids both at the beach at Cape Blomidon and also again at Evangeline Beach. Thus I wanted to show them to Pat, so we walked part of Evangeline Beach at the high-tide- line area about an hour before high tide. We found more than a dozen examples, maybe 25, and pointed them out to the recreating locals and tourists there. Many of the bunches of sea-mops or fingers of eggs were quite fresh-looking, while others were "older" in the sense of having been at the high-tide line longer and had sediment on them. I would like to know more about the survivability and percentages of hatching of these squid eggs for sea-mops that are attached to the bottom subtidally or below the high-tide area versus the egg-sacs that are poorly attached or not attached and then can move around and get stranded for extended periods at the high-tide line, where the temperatures on warm Sunny days can be very warm. There were about 10 or more striped bass fisherpeople at The Guzzle at high tide, and we saw one fellow land a bass of perhaps a half- kilogram, much too small to be a keeper (27 inches long is lower limit). I asked another fellow whether any "keepers" had been caught recently, and he said no. We watched a nice flock of perhaps 600 peeps (small shorebirds), which were mostly semipalmated sandpipers with a few semipalmated plovers and at least one sanderling in breeding plumage. (We also saw a single least sandpiper roosting in the shade of a grass tussock at The Guzzle.) The flock was restless and flying a lot with landings on the rocky beach just adjacent and west of the Guzzle. We sat on big rocks not far from the peeps, and it wasn't long before a small falcon came in quite low from the west and passed by our flock, flushing them but apparently not chasing any of the shorebirds. Then I saw presumably the same shorebirds well offshore and flying, but they didn't come back to us. We left there and went home right about at high tide, 4 p.m. My reading on the small falcon was that it had to be a merlin, but Andy Dean also saw a falcon that he thought was a peregrine. We did not see a peregrine. But I know at least 3 people (Charlane Bishop-Boates, Sherman Boates, Rick Whitman, and a bunch of wildlife biologists) who saw a peregrine going after peeps (500+) at or near The Guzzle/East Point on Saturday, July 21/12, at high tide. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. --Apple-Mail-28--315649868 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>JULY = 22, 2012 (Sun.)</b> - Yesterday Sherman Boates and Charlane = Bishop-Boates found <b>eggs of Peale's squids</b> both at the beach at = Cape Blomidon and also again at Evangeline Beach. Thus I wanted to = show them to Pat, so we walked part of Evangeline Beach at the = high-tide-line area about an hour before high tide. We found more = than a dozen examples, maybe 25, and pointed them out to the recreating = locals and tourists there. Many of the bunches of sea-mops or = fingers of eggs were quite fresh-looking, while others were "older" in = the sense of having been at the high-tide line longer and had sediment = on them.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">I would like to know more about the <b>survivability = and percentages of hatching</b> of these<b> squid eggs</b> for sea-mops = that are attached to the bottom subtidally or below the high-tide area = versus the egg-sacs that are poorly attached or not attached and then = can move around and get stranded for extended periods at the high-tide = line, where the temperatures on warm Sunny days can be very = warm.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal = 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: = 12.0px Helvetica">There were about 10 or more<b> striped bass = fisherpeople at The Guzzle</b> at high tide, and we saw one fellow land = a bass of perhaps a half-kilogram, much too small to be a keeper (27 = inches long is lower limit). I asked another fellow whether any = "keepers" had been caught recently, and he said no.</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">We = watched a nice flock of perhaps <b>600 peeps</b> (small shorebirds), = which were mostly <b>semipalmated sandpipers</b> with a few = <b>semipalmated plovers</b> and at least one<b> sanderling</b> in = breeding plumage. </font><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-size: 12px; "> (We also saw a single <b>least = sandpiper </b>roosting in the shade of a grass tussock at The = Guzzle.) </span><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: = 12px; "> The flock was restless and flying a lot with = landings on the rocky beach just adjacent and west of the Guzzle. = We sat on big rocks not far from the peeps, and it wasn't long before a = <b>small falcon</b> came in quite low from the west and passed by our = flock, flushing them but apparently not chasing any of the = shorebirds. Then I saw presumably the same shorebirds well = offshore and flying, but they didn't come back to us. We left = there and went home right about at high tide, 4 p.m.</span></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">My = reading on the <b>small falcon</b> was that it had to be a<b> = merlin</b>, but Andy Dean also saw a falcon that he thought was a = <b>peregrine</b>. We did not see a peregrine.</font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; = min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">But I = know at least 3 people (Charlane Bishop-Boates, Sherman Boates, Rick = Whitman, and a bunch of wildlife biologists) who saw a <b>peregrine = going after peeps (500+)</b> at or near The Guzzle/East Point on = Saturday, July 21/12, at high tide.</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: = 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font = face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica"><br></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: = 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville. </font></div> </body></html>= --Apple-Mail-28--315649868--
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