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Whatever they are called today.</span></div><div style=3D"font-family: = --089e0160bde2d2bb4805074a4953 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, Here's what I found by googling Cockawee -- The Cockawee is a local name for the Long-Tailed Duck that would winter on the Bay of Gaspe. Richard On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Jim Wolford <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> wrote: > Paul, an easy guess for surf coot is surf scoter, but cockawee has me > stumped =E2=80=94 maybe what we used to call old-squaw duck but now long-= tailed > duck?? Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > > Begin forwarded message: > > *From: *Paul MacDonald <paulrita2001@yahoo.com> > *Subject: **Re: [NatureNS] Kentville--Miner's Marsh-2014-11-6* > *Date: *November 6, 2014 at 6:07:12 PM AST > *To: *"naturens@chebucto.ns.ca" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> > *Reply-To: *naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > > hi Richard and All > Today at Mahone Bay - the bay not the town > where a little brook flows into the salt I saw > water splashing and something black in the middle. > I thought otter but when I put my binos on the spot, it > was a crow having a bath. I never saw one with such > an aggressive bath before. > Out in the bay was a flock of about 50 surf coot and the > same number about of cockawees. Whatever they are called today. > Enjoy the rain > Paul > > > On Thursday, November 6, 2014 3:53 PM, Richard Stern < > sternrichard@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Observer: rb_stern > 2014-11-06 15:10 > Kentville--Miner's Marsh > Protocol: Traveling > Observers: 1 > 2 Mallard > 5 Hooded Merganser All f/Imm type > 1 Belted Kingfisher > 1 Northern Flicker > X American Crow Large number diving into trees. Impossible to > estimate total. > 10 Black-capped Chickadee > This report was created and sent using BirdsEye BirdLog ( > http://birdseyebirding.com/) > Richard Stern > Sternrichard@gmail.com > Sent from my Android device > > > > --=20 ################# Dr.R.B.Stern, P.O. Box 300, Port Williams, N.S., Canada, B0P 1T0 Richard Stern, Port Williams, NS, Canada sternrichard@gmail.com ################### --089e0160bde2d2bb4805074a4953 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>Here's what I found by goog= ling Cockawee -- The Cockawee is a local name for the Long-Tailed Duck that= would winter on the Bay of Gaspe.<br><br></div>Richard<br></div><div class= =3D"gmail_extra"><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 2:20= PM, Jim Wolford <span dir=3D"ltr"><<a href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlin= k.ca" target=3D"_blank">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><bl= ockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #= ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style=3D"word-wrap:break-word">Paul, an ea= sy guess for surf coot is surf scoter, but cockawee has me stumped =E2=80= =94 maybe what we used to call old-squaw duck but now long-tailed duck??=C2= =A0 Cheers from Jim in Wolfville.<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:= </div><br><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div style=3D"margin-top:0px;margin-rig= ht:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style=3D"font-family:'H= elvetica';color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>From: </b></span><span style=3D"fon= t-family:'Helvetica'">Paul MacDonald <<a href=3D"mailto:paulrita= 2001@yahoo.com" target=3D"_blank">paulrita2001@yahoo.com</a>><br></span>= </div><div style=3D"margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margi= n-left:0px"><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';color:rgba(0,0,0= ,1.0)"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'= ;"><b>Re: [NatureNS] Kentville--Miner's Marsh-2014-11-6</b><br></span><= /div><div style=3D"margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin= -left:0px"><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';color:rgba(0,0,0,= 1.0)"><b>Date: </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'">N= ovember 6, 2014 at 6:07:12 PM AST<br></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top:= 0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style=3D"font= -family:'Helvetica';color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>To: </b></span><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'">"<a href=3D"mailto:naturens@= chebucto.ns.ca" target=3D"_blank">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a>" <<a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca" target=3D"_blank">naturens@chebucto= .ns.ca</a>><br></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top:0px;margin-right:0p= x;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px"><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvet= ica';color:rgba(0,0,0,1.0)"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style=3D"font= -family:'Helvetica'"><a href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca" tar= get=3D"_blank">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a><br></span></div><br><div><div st= yle=3D"background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Hel= vetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-si= ze:14px"><div><span>hi Richard and All</span></div><div style=3D"font-famil= y:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande= ',sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;background-color:transpar= ent"><span>Today at Mahone Bay - the bay not the town</span></div><div styl= e=3D"font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,= 9;Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;background= -color:transparent"><span>where a little brook flows into the salt I saw</s= pan></div><div style=3D"font-family:HelveticaNeue,'Helvetica Neue',= Helvetica,Arial,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;font-size:14px;font-styl= e:normal;background-color:transparent"><span>water splashing and something = black in the m