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That's a hilarious (well sort of) tale of the widowed urban goose. She likely few back to Toronto?
I'm with Lance and the Cape Bretoners. This expanding species is quite delicious baked in orange juice, wild rice and cranberries, etc. Now if only I could acquire a taste for glossy buckthorn salad.
Donna
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From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] On Behalf Of Fred Schueler
Sent: April-18-17 12:43 PM
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Miner's Marsh KIngfisher
On 4/18/2017 11:11 AM, Laviolette, Lance wrote:
> “Truck loads from TO” reminds me of a story...
* ...on our 2002 James Bay Expedition - http://pinicola.ca/g2003b.htm - we found a very tame single Canada Goose at a boatlunch ramp way north in Quebec - and the sad story we told was that she'd mated with a northern Quebec male during the winter, had followed him north, and he'd been taken out by the spring Goose hunt, leaving her an urban widow in the wilderness.
fred.
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> ...Paul. About 40 years ago
> there was an effort made to ‘reintroduce’ Canada Geese in Cape Breton
> near CBHNP. They trucked in a bunch of TO geese and let them loose on
> a lake. Now these geese were quite use to humans having been rounded
> up in the friendly confines of the TO shoreline. It wasn’t long before
> the local residents of that area of CB realized that. There was good
> eating in those parts while the geese lasted…
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> Cheers,
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> Lance
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> *Lance Laviolette*
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> Glen Robertson, Ontario
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> *From:*naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca
> [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] *On Behalf Of
> *rita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca
> *Sent:* Monday, April 17, 2017 8:26 AM
> *To:* naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
> *Subject:* EXTERNAL: Re: [NatureNS] Miner's Marsh KIngfisher
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> Isn't it fun about the Canada Geese Doug?
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> One group wanted to introduce Wild Turkeys and
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> all the Naturalists got against it - made plenty of noise
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> so WT went away.
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> Another group wanted non migratory Canada Geese so
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> they learned from the WT fiasco and just brought a couple of
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> truck loads from TO and let them go - no fuss - no muss!
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> Now they are in every puddle around and the Naturalists
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> love them! Things work in wonderful ways!
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> Enjoy the spring
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> Paul
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>> On April 16, 2017 at 11:17 PM Doug Linzey <doug@fundymud.com
> <mailto:doug@fundymud.com>> wrote:
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>> This afternoon at Miner's Marsh, a kingfisher and an impressive
>> number of Tree Swallows. We watched a pair of Canada Geese mating
>> (I'd never witnessed the preceding head-bobbing routine before). And
>> a lone Pied-billed Grebe was calling somewhat plaintively, clearly in
>> search of a mate.
>>
>> Doug Linzey
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