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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00C8_01D28E13.15E9EAA0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Wow! Jim you have had a high news day, to say the least. Those eagles must have been quite hungry. I wonder if any cats have succumbed. Sounds like you have some nests to keep an eye on. Each time there is a mink sighting, I wonder if it is yet another escaped mink. The population seems to be up on the Mersey this year. None of them seem as 'tame' though as the one that fought off the raccoon in Jeremys Campground two years ago for some leftover food in a frying pan, and then later stole a dust pan from a campsite after taking a few sips of coffee from a camper's cup. Needless to say, that one went "to heaven" and then necropsy. I hear the mink farms are not doing well, and the banks are asking for sudden repayment of loans. Sounds like they see an end to our NS markets. Damage to wild populations is already done, it seems. I heard CBC radio talking about the turkeys. I once saw on in Kouchibouguac standing along the roadside. It sort of stuck out like a sore thumb. It had wondered into the park from a private property close by. I don't just as soon not see them here in NS. Regards, Donna From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] On Behalf Of Jim Wolford Sent: February-23-17 4:10 PM To: naturens; Jim Wolford Cc: Bob Bancroft; Mark F Elderkin; Pam Mills; Kimberley Huskins; Donald Sam > Subject: [NatureNS] eagles & pets, wild turkeys, mink & muskrat, b. eagle nests news FEBRUARY 22, 2017 - Today's CBC Radio News had a very short item at noon, saying that EAGLES in New Brunswick were going after pets of humans. I used Google & CBC News to find an article, dated today, about two different small dogs that were attacked in Charlotte County, N.B., one of them after dark at night recently - both dogs survived the attacks, thanks to their owners. FEB. 23, 2017 - At noon, CBC Radio News reported that someone in New Brunswick saw a large flock of about 40 "WILD TURKEYS". The person who saw them reported that they would move away from curious humans, but that they were not scared of anything. No mention was made of their colour, but their relative tameness makes me wonder about their "wildness". ----------------------------- Lisa Eye, who lives on lower Church St. north of Port Williams, had a couple of local reports: (a) in her back yard, which features a small cattail pond, three days ago she saw a MINK which was dragging a much larger MUSKRAT through the snow. I told her that muskrats are favourite prey items of mink; and (b) Very recently, apparently strong winds severely damaged the Church St. BALD EAGLE NEST - part of the nest is still high in the tree, but they have a lot of repairs to make - this nest is about a kilometre east from where Lisa lives with her husband Dale. --------------- More news from myself on the location of the very recent or new? BALD EAGLE NEST just north of Avonport: I first heard of this nest from Sherman Williams on Feb. 5/17, when he was turning in his report on his part of our annual count of eagles and other raptors. From Sherman's description, I had no trouble in locating this nest. From the L.E. Shaw School in Avonport, I drove north along the road to Oak Island for 1.1 kilometres, then looked well off the road to the east, where the new nest is in a deciduous tree in a long line of mostly deciduous trees. Until I hear otherwise, I will assume this obvious nest is the one that Sherman reported. Also he says there is a secondary road that gets closer to the nest. On Feb. 5/17, Pat & I "discovered" a second new BALD EAGLE NEST, at Grand Pre - this nest is in the last tree at the west end of the line of tall poplars along the old railroad tracks right-of-way just west and south of Grand Pre Historic Park. Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. ------=_NextPart_000_00C8_01D28E13.15E9EAA0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html xmlns:v=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" = xmlns:o=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" = xmlns:w=3D"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" = xmlns:m=3D"http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" = xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta = http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Dus-ascii"><meta name=3DGenerator content=3D"Microsoft Word 12 = (filtered medium)"><style><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;} @font-face {font-family:Calibri; panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} @font-face {font-family:Tahoma; panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {mso-style-priority:99; color:blue; text-decoration:underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {mso-style-priority:99; color:purple; text-decoration:underline;} span.EmailStyle17 {mso-style-type:personal-reply; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D;} .MsoChpDefault {mso-style-type:export-only; font-size:10.0pt;} @page WordSection1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;} div.WordSection1 {page:WordSection1;} --></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapedefaults v:ext=3D"edit" spidmax=3D"1026" /> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:shapelayout v:ext=3D"edit"> <o:idmap v:ext=3D"edit" data=3D"1" /> </o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=3DEN-CA link=3Dblue = vlink=3Dpurple><div class=3DWordSection1><p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497= D'>Wow! Jim you have had a high news day, to say the least. = <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497= D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497= D'>Those eagles must have been quite hungry. I wonder if any cats = have succumbed. Sounds like you have some nests to keep an eye = on.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497= D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=3DMsoNormal><span = style=3D'font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497= D'>Each time there is a mink sighting, I wonder if it is yet anot