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On 9/29/2016 7:44 PM, Hubcove@aol.com wrote:
> They feed on the Green crabs regularly in the cove. I never cease to be
> amazed at how well they swim and dive.
* it's wise that they stick to Green Crabs. In 1988, on Vancouver Island
we saw a Mink struggling with a large Dungeness Crab in open water, and
subsequently coming out on the shore and shaking its feet, as if it had
found itself rather too severely pinched by the Crab.
fred.
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> In a message dated 2016-09-29 5:15:38 P.M. Atlantic Daylight Time,
> rita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca writes:
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> Hi All
> This afternoon my wife and I were down to the Island
> View Canteen for a break. The tide was down but coming back.
> and a variety of rocks were exposed out in the water.
> A mink started swimming between the rocks. It would sit up on one,
> look around and then swim to the next. At one rock it brought up
> a green crab too. It gave it a few vigorous shakes and then swam off
> to shore probably to a den in the rocks.
> Green Crabs do not have a good reputation but the mink seemed
> pleased with its catch!
> Enjoy the fall
> Paul
>
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