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I can't see someone catching a live crow and fastening it to a branch. Years
ago we had a tame crow that came and pulled clothepins off the closelines,
but even that one could not be caught. A few years ago someone caught a
crow with bait and a fishline and sprayed it with gold paint - it stayed
around the intersection of the number 3 highway and the road to CSE for a
couple of weeks
Incidentally, the best way to get rid of gulls in your blueberry
patch is to get the body of a dead gull and tie it to a branch in the center
of the patch.
Roland.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don MacNeill" <donmacneill@eastlink.ca>
To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 7:53 AM
Subject: Re: [NatureNS] This pm at Hartlen and Conrod's
> An old trick to discourage crows from your property was to tie a dead crow
> to a branch. Perhaps that is what this one was. If it was close to
> water, the branch may have broken and the crow washed up at PPP.
>
> Don
>
> Don MacNeill
> donmacneill@eastlink.ca
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Bartlett" <bbartlett@eastlink.ca>
> To: <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 9:54 PM
> Subject: Re: [NatureNS] This pm at Hartlen and Conrod's
>
>
>> Joan, At Hartlen Pt. yesterday, there was also a dead crow among the
>> rocks, with turquoise rope (of the sort found among beach rubble) tied
>> tightly around both of its feet, and attached to a board. I have no idea
>> why anyone performed such a pointless act upon the crow. Couldn't tell
>> how it had died -- seemed full-sized and healthy before death. The sight
>> reminded me of one of the greatest pieces of Canadian nature writing, Don
>> McKay's essay "Baler Twine," which includes a memory of a dead raven with
>> its feet fixed to a fence with baler twine.
>> Late yesterday afternoon the light from the falling sun was perfect at
>> Sullivan's P. for highlighting the green or rust colours of the Wigeons'
>> (both species) heads, and the b&w breast patterns of the Gadwalls. The
>> Coots stayed far from shore.
>> Today on the Young Naturalists' Club hike in the Arnell Lands area,
>> highlights for the kids included an "icefall" (falling water frozen on
>> the north side of an incline), and coyote scats clearly showing Snowshoe
>> Hare fur that came through intact. Also, guide John told of toxic
>> Reindeer Moss eaten farther north than here by Caribou and coming out the
>> other end purified, eaten by some First Nations tribes as a delicacy.
>> Naturally the young ones weren't as enthused about the idea of trying
>> that delicacy as they were while nibbling the Wintergreen along the
>> trail.
>> Brian
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Joan Czapalay" <joancz@ns.sympatico.ca>
>> To: "NatureNS" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
>> Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 4:46 PM
>> Subject: [NatureNS] This pm at Hartlen and Conrod's
>>
>>
>>> Hi all- Couldn't be housebound all day, so took one of my housemates ( a
>>> visiting nursing professor from China) for a drive about. We went by
>>> Sullivan's (nothing new to report), Fishermen's Reserve in E. Passage
>>> ( good lobster sandwiches at the end of the road), a surprisingly empty
>>> harbour ( a half dozen Red breasted Mergansers, some Common Eider (
>>> about thirty scattered along), 6-8 Scaup (didn't scope, so not sure if
>>> any Lesser were there), and a single Song Sparrow at Hartlen beach area.
>>> Conrad's Beach was very windy and quiet of birds. Again, RBMergansers,
>>> eiders and Herring Gulls. No early Piping Plover, or Ipswitch that we
>>> could find. Not much surf, so no surfers at Lawrencetown. I took some
>>> pictures of the road work there. Lovely day to be outside. There have
>>> bee Snowdrops in bloom for over a week (south end of Beaufort) and I
>>> (like Pat) also noticed my first Coltsfoot of the spring in Halifax.
>>> Last evening a *Purple Finch* in south end Robie Street.
>>
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