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Index of Subjects <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org= /TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"><html xmlns=3D"http://www.w3.org/1999/xht= ml"><head> <meta content=3D"text/html; charset=3DUTF-8" http-equiv=3D"Content-Type= "/> =20 <style type=3D"text/css"><!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-fa= mily: Calibri; } @font-face {font-family: Tahoma; } @font-face {font-family: "Book Antiqua"; } /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {margin:= 0cm; margin-bottom: .0001pt; font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: "Calibri",= "sans-serif";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink { color: blue; text-decoration: underline;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed { color: purple; text-decoration: = underline;} span.EmailStyle17 { font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: windowt= ext;} span.EmailStyle18 { font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; color: #1F497D= ;} .MsoChpDefault { font-size: 10.0pt;} @page WordSection1 { margin: 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;} div.WordSection1 {} --></style> =20 </head><body style=3D""> =20 <div> <span style=3D"font-family: book antiqua, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Ja= ne, was it a Painted Turtle, as I would expect? Or something else?</span> </div>=20 <div>   </div>=20 <div> <span style=3D"font-family: book antiqua, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Th= anks for your comments,</span> </div>=20 <div>   </div>=20 <div> <span style=3D"font-family: book antiqua, palatino; font-size: 12pt;">Pa= tricia</span> </div>=20 <blockquote style=3D"position: relative; margin-left: 0px; padding-left: = 10px; border-left: solid 1px blue;" type=3D"cite"> <!-- [if gte mso 9]> --> <!-- <![endif] --> <!-- [if gte mso 9]> --> <!-- <![endif] -->On April 28, 2020 at 2:39 PM John and Nhung <nhung= john@eastlink.ca> wrote: <br/> <br/>=20 <div class=3D"WordSection1">=20 <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"color: #1f497d;">Yet one more= 0; cautionary tale against introducing exotics.  </span></p>=20 <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"color: #1f497d;"> </span></p= >=20 <div>=20 <div style=3D"border: none; border-top: solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt; padding: = 3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;">=20 <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><strong><span style=3D"font-size: 10.0pt; font= -family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif';">From:</span></strong><span= style=3D"font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Tahoma','sans-serif&= #39;;"> naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca= ] <strong>On Behalf Of </strong>David Schlosberg<br/><strong>Sent:</strong>= April 28, 2020 1:41 PM<br/><strong>To:</strong> naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<br= /><strong>Subject:</strong> RE: [NatureNS] Spring Sounds?</span></p>=20 </div>=20 </div>=20 <p class=3D"MsoNormal"> </p>=20 <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span>We took a walk over to the little pond on = Linden Lea in Dartmouth.  This pond has been the home of peepers for m= any years, but, we=E2=80=99re told, someone dumped some goldfish in it and = they ate all the peeper eggs.  No peeper at all this spring.  We = looked for the goldfish but didn=E2=80=99t see a single one.  Do turtl= es eat goldfish?  There=E2=80=99s a big beautiful turtle. </span></p>= =20 <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span>Jane</span></p>=20 <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>=20 <div style=3D"border: none; border-top: solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt; padding: 3= .0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm;">=20 <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><strong><span>From:</span></strong><span> natur= ens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca <naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca> <strong>On= Behalf Of </strong>Jacquie Dale<br/><strong>Sent:</strong> Tuesday, April = 28, 2020 12:59 PM<br/><strong>To:</strong> naturens@chebucto.ns.ca<br/><str= ong>Subject:</strong> Re: [NatureNS] Spring Sounds?</span></p>=20 </div>=20 <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>=20 <div>=20 <div>=20 <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span>Hi Patricia</span></p>=20 </div>=20 <div>=20 <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span>We live up on the North Mountain and hav= e a large pond in our yard. We have spring peepers and they have been peepi= ng for a couple of weeks but we have noticed there are not nearly as numero= us as previous years. We also have wood frogs. They are very active during = the day (except when we approach the pond to watch the frenzy they suddenly= go quiet and take a dive). But we have also noticed the numbers to be lowe= r than previous years. We are hoping the numbers will increase as spring pr= ogresses and the weather warms. As we have not been here that long it is di= fficult for us to determine what is "normal."</span></p>=20 </div>=20 <div>=20 <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>=20 </div>=20 <div>=20 <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span>Jacquie</span></p>=20 </div>=20 <div>=20 <p style=3D"margin-bottom: 12.0pt;" class=3D"MsoNormal"><span>Harbour= ville, NS</span></p>=20 <div>=20 <div>=20 <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span>On Tue, Apr 28, 2020, 12:34 PM <a href= =3D"mailto:plchalmers@ns.sympatico.ca">plchalmers@ns.sympatico.ca</a>, <= ;<a href=3D"mailto:plchalmers@ns.sympatico.ca">plchalmers@ns.sympatico.ca</= a>> wrote:</span></p>=20 </div>=20 <blockquote style=3D"border: none; border-left: solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;= padding: 0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt; margin-left: 4.8pt; margin-top: 5.0pt; margin-= right: 0cm; margin-bottom: 5.0pt;">=20 <div>=20 <div>=20 <p class=3D"MsoNormal"><span style=3D"font-size: 12.0pt; font