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--001a1149441ceaac6b0552072928 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Hi All, Not such happy news, but an interesting observation just the same. This morning while walking the beach at Huntington Point, Kings Co (Google maps: 45.194670, -64.651126) I saw a Raven eating something on the beach, as I got close I was able to identify a very small Harbour Porpoise. The black back and tail, grey sides grading to white belly, the small triangular dorsal fin and stubby face ( no beak ) match the illustration at: http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/species-especes/profiles-profils/harbourporpoise-atl-marsouinat-eng.html There weren't any lines, nets or fishing gear, no bullet hole, the back had many small cuts that appeared they could have been from waves rolling it on the rocky shore or from the Raven trying to break through the hide. There was one opening on the belly with a long thin bit of red bloody tissue pulled from it. The animal was only as long as three of my size ten Keen hiking shoes (plus a toe more) thus a yard ( just shy of a metre long). Could the long piece have been the umbilical, how long is a new born? Or did the Raven get through the softer under belly. I had a ways to walk and had nothing to carry a dead whale corpse in. If it hadn't been bloody I thought I might put it over my shoulder. I didn't have a device to take a photo, so will have to be satisfied with my memory. Cheers, George Forsyth --001a1149441ceaac6b0552072928 Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <div dir=3D"ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hi All,<br><br></div>Not such hap= py news, but an interesting observation just the same. <br><br>This morning= while walking the beach at Huntington Point, Kings Co (Google maps: 45.194= 670, -64.651126) I saw a Raven eating something on the beach, as I got clos= e I was able to identify a very small Harbour Porpoise. The black back and = tail, grey sides grading to white belly, the small triangular dorsal fin an= d stubby face ( no beak ) match the illustration at:=C2=A0 <a href=3D"http:= //www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/species-especes/profiles-profils/harbourporpoise-atl-ma= rsouinat-eng.html">http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/species-especes/profiles-profil= s/harbourporpoise-atl-marsouinat-eng.html</a><br><br></div>There weren'= t any lines, nets or fishing gear, no bullet hole, the back had many small = cuts that appeared they could have been from waves rolling it on the rocky = shore or from the Raven trying to break through the hide. There was one ope= ning on the belly with a long thin bit of red bloody tissue pulled from it.= The animal was only as long as three of my size ten Keen hiking shoes (plu= s a toe more) thus a yard ( just shy of a metre long). Could the long piece= have been the umbilical, how long is a new born? Or did the Raven get thro= ugh the softer under belly. <br><br></div>I had a ways to walk and had noth= ing to carry a dead whale corpse in. If it hadn't been bloody I thought= I might put it over my shoulder.<br><br></div>I didn't have a device t= o take a photo, so will have to be satisfied with my memory.<br><br></div>C= heers, George Forsyth<br><div><div><br></div></div></div> --001a1149441ceaac6b0552072928--
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