[NatureNS] loons and ducks

Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 10:42:26 -0300 (ADT)
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thanks for the duck - loon story Donna.</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Very interesting - I&#39;ve got a duck loon story also. Too log</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">for here - I&#39;ll tell you sometime.</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">We missed you yesterday at the Loon Count. It was&#39;t the</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">same with out you but the show went on.</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Talked with people I hadn&#39;t seen in years.</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Amy and I went to George Lake. We paddled over the lake ad</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">up the Western Run along to Norway Island and circled Minards Bay.</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Came out and then across to Eastern Run and back to the car.</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">A great paddle but not a loon, big or small in sight. About the only</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">thing for water birds were Spotted Sandpipers and they were numerous.</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Rumor was the Loons were in the western part of Keji Lake but there</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">were few chicks this year.</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">I wonder if the adults can store up enough energy to produce chicks&#160;</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">every year? It may take a year or so to condition themselves to</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">produce chicks again.</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Anyway a great day - even if we missed you!</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Paul</span>
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   On August 18, 2019 at 7:10 PM Donna Crossland &#60;dcrossland@eastlink.ca&#62; wrote: 
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   <p>Good fish story, Paul.&#160; Thanks for sharing it with us.</p> 
   <p>I hope you and other &#39;LoonWatchers&#39; had a good day in Keji.&#160; The rain drops were pretty sparse so&#160; the weather was likely okay.&#160; I will join you and the rest of the gang next year for the 25th year of LoonWatch.&#160;</p> 
   <p>Meanwhile, I stumbled across this loon story today; quite fascinating.&#160; Who would have guessed they could feed fish to a young mallard duckling and teach it to make long dives?&#160;</p> 
   <p>https://www.kare11.com/article/news/putting-rivalry-aside-loon-pair-adopts-duckling/89-731e4528-58c7-483a-b99c-007cf1da08ae</p> 
   <p>Nature keeps us guessing.&#160;</p> 
   <p>All the best,</p> 
   <p>Donna</p> 
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   <p>https://www.kare11.com/article/news/putting-rivalry-aside-loon-pair-adopts-duckling/89-731e4528-58c7-483a-b99c-007cf1da08ae</p> 
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    On 2019-08-15 11:58 a.m., 
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     <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hi All</span>
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     <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Yesterday was Blue Beach day for me.</span>
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     <span style="font-size: 12pt;">And a good day it was. Sunny with a light on shore</span>
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     <span style="font-size: 12pt;">breeze made it very comfortable.</span>
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     <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Fish were cooperative also. Yesterday it was Striped Bass but you</span>
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     <span style="font-size: 12pt;">never know. Last time I was there it was flounders, another time eels</span>
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     <span style="font-size: 12pt;">sometimes skates or dogfish. a fun place to fish.</span>
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     <span style="font-size: 12pt;">About 500 m from shore a large fish jumped. Don&#39;t know what kind, probably</span>
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     <span style="font-size: 12pt;">a sturgeon but hard to tell. Sure made the water fly! If that grabbed my hook I would</span>
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     <span style="font-size: 12pt;">be going home without my rod.</span>
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     <span style="font-size: 12pt;">After the water got nearly high, shorebirds started wheeling round. Little flocks of</span>
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     <span style="font-size: 12pt;">10 to 50 or so. Finally they joined together to make&#160; a big flock. Quite impressive</span>
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     <span style="font-size: 12pt;">They will land close by if you are quiet but they don&#39;t like movement.</span>
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     <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Sunday is Loon Count day. Hope some of you will help Ginny out!</span>
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     <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Have a nice summer</span>
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     <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Paul</span>
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