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At 5:15 PM -0300 6/4/13, Blake Maybank wrote: >4 June 2013 - White's Lake, HRM, Nova Scotia > >I repeatedly heard odd thumping and crashing noises in our house this >morning, emanating from . . . somewhere. I first blamed the cats, to no >avail. I finally realised the noises were coming from the chimney of our >fireplace, and by the volume I suspected a raccoon (ruling out squirrels, >bats, and Chimney Swifts). There was eventually a final "thump" and when I >shone a flashlight through the soot-covered glass door to the fireplace I >was very surprised to see a female Common Merganser staring back at me. > I wasn't there when it happened, but three times during the 1950s and 1960s, female Common Mergansers came down the chimney of my family's camp on the South Oromocto River, Near Hoyt, NB. One was found dead in the fireplace, and two knocked the fire-screen over and got into the camp, making quite a mess. One of those also died, but the third was banging around in the bedroom when we arrived for our weekend stay. We were able to release it in apparently good condition. All three incidents happened early in the nesting season. David -- David Christie Mary's Point, Harvey, Albert Co., New Brunswick, Canada http://www3.nbnet.nb.ca/maryspt
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