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--_47aa39e9-67fd-4f3b-9850-463681d7f18c_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all: =20 I wrote a short blip in my column about concerns of the eagle young and non= e breeders congregating and virtually wiping out seabird populations from c= ertain islands. This was after the great interview by Blake Maybank on the= topic of feeding bald eagles at the chicken farms and on the basis of feed= back and response generated on the top. =20 =20 Anyhow=2C this is one response that I received=2C which might be of interes= t. I don't know other than word of mouth whether it is factual=2C but some= of the birders in Cape Breton might be able to respond to it. Or someone i= n the Dept. of Fisheries might want to address the topic. =20 =20 "Also the the trout and salmon farms are a bonanza for the above=2CI counte= d 50+ mature birds this summer past in Whycocomag? Bay. That's just one sma= ll operation.The eagles =2Cof course=2Cprovide service by eating all the de= ad fish that are tossed out of the pens on a daily basis.There more birds t= han trees to hold them.They walked on the shoreline.Too fat to fly. " =20 I'm assuming this refers to Whycocomagh=2C Cape Breton. =20 =20 James R. Hirtle Bridgewater =20 = --_47aa39e9-67fd-4f3b-9850-463681d7f18c_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <head> <style><!-- .hmmessage P { margin:0px=3B padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 12pt=3B font-family:Calibri } --></style></head> <body class=3D'hmmessage'><div dir=3D'ltr'><font size=3D"6">Hi all:</font><= BR> =3B<BR><font size=3D"6">I wrote a short blip in my column about con= cerns of the eagle young and none breeders congregating and virtually wipin= g out seabird populations from certain islands. =3B This was after the = great interview by Blake Maybank on the topic of feeding bald eagles at the= chicken farms and on the basis of feedback and response generated on the t= op. =3B </font><BR><font size=3D"6"></font> =3B<BR><font size=3D"6"= >Anyhow=2C this is one response that I received=2C which might be of intere= st. =3B I don't know other than word of mouth whether it is factual=2C = but some of the birders in Cape Breton might be able to respond to it. = =3BOr someone in the Dept. of Fisheries might want to address the topic.&nb= sp=3B  =3B</font><BR><font size=3D"6"></font> =3B<BR>"Also the the = trout and salmon farms are a bonanza for the above=2CI counted 50+ mature b= irds this summer past in Whycocomag? Bay. That's just one small operation.T= he eagles =2Cof course=2Cprovide service by eating all the dead fish that a= re tossed out of the pens on a daily basis.There more birds than trees to h= old them.They walked on the shoreline.Too fat to fly. "<BR> =3B<BR>I'm = assuming this refers to Whycocomagh=2C Cape Breton. =3B <BR> =3B<BR= >James R. Hirtle<BR>Bridgewater<BR><font size=3D"6"> =3B<br id=3D"FontB= reak"></font><BR> </div></body> </html>= --_47aa39e9-67fd-4f3b-9850-463681d7f18c_--
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