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--Apple-Mail-27--601603394 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed OCT. 27, 2012 - Beautiful Sunny day, and this afternoon Pat & I drove around in the Canning area to catch the Fall colours. Near Blueberry Acres, where the highbush blueberry bushes are still nicely red- leaved, we stopped at Saxon Street Pond to view the waterfowl. While we looked at about 100 ducks (about 65 green-winged teals, plus black ducks and mallards and a single f/imm pintail, an immature bald eagle flushed all the ducks by swooping at them a few times. When the eagle disappeared, the ducks quickly reassembled on the water, and a few minutes later probably the same eagle repeated the swooping and flushing, and then left empty-taloned. Every year, during and after the waterfowl hunting season, bald eagles and probably other raptors (like great horned owls) have a field day by locating, catching, and scavenging on injured and dead ducks and geese that are not retrieved by hunters. I'm sure our eagle today was "testing" those ducks and looking for cripples among those swimming. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. --Apple-Mail-27--601603394 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; line-height: = 28px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); "><font face=3D"Arial" = size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 14.0px Arial; background-color: = transparent"><b>OCT. 27, 2012</b></font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" = color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 14.0px Arial; color: #001ee6"><b> - = Beautiful Sunny day, and this afternoon Pat & I drove around in the = Canning area to catch the Fall colours. Near Blueberry Acres, = where the highbush blueberry bushes are still nicely red-leaved, we = stopped at </b></font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: = 14.0px Arial; background-color: transparent"><b>Saxon Street = Pond</b></font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" color=3D"#001ee6" = style=3D"font: 14.0px Arial; color: #001ee6"><b> to view the = waterfowl. While we looked at about 100 ducks (about 65 = </b></font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 14.0px Arial; = background-color: transparent"><b>green-winged teals</b></font><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 14.0px Arial; = color: #001ee6"><b>, plus </b></font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" = style=3D"font: 14.0px Arial; background-color: transparent"><b>black = ducks</b></font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" color=3D"#001ee6" = style=3D"font: 14.0px Arial; color: #001ee6"><b> and </b></font><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: 14.0px Arial; background-color: = transparent"><b>mallards</b></font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" = color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 14.0px Arial; color: #001ee6"><b> and a = single f/imm </b></font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" style=3D"font: = 14.0px Arial; background-color: transparent"><b>pintail</b></font><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 14.0px Arial; = color: #001ee6"><b>, an</b></font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" = style=3D"font: 14.0px Arial; background-color: transparent"><b> immature = bald eagle</b></font><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" color=3D"#001ee6" = style=3D"font: 14.0px Arial; color: #001ee6"><b> flushed all the ducks = by swooping at them a few times.</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top:= 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; = line-height: 28px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); "><font = face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 14.0px Arial; = color: #001ee6"><b><br></b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: = 28px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, 240); "><font face=3D"Arial" = size=3D"4" color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: 14.0px Arial; color: = #001ee6"><b>When the eagle disappeared, the ducks quickly reassembled on = the water, and a few minutes later probably the same eagle repeated the = swooping and flushing, and then left empty-taloned.</b></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; line-height: 28px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, = 240); "><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: = 14.0px Arial; color: #001ee6"><b><br></b></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; line-height: 28px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, = 240); "><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: = 14.0px Arial; color: #001ee6"><b>Every year, during and after the = waterfowl hunting season, bald eagles and probably other raptors (like = great horned owls) have a field day by locating, catching, and = scavenging on injured and dead ducks and geese that are not retrieved by = hunters. I'm sure our eagle today was "testing" those ducks and = looking for cripples among those swimming.</b></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; line-height: 28px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, = 240); "><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: = 14.0px Arial; color: #001ee6"><b><br></b></font></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; line-height: 28px; background-color: rgb(240, 240, = 240); "><font face=3D"Arial" size=3D"4" color=3D"#001ee6" style=3D"font: = 14.0px Arial; color: #001ee6"><b>Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville.</b></font></div> </body></html>= --Apple-Mail-27--601603394--
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