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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0038_01CCD2AB.95F12070 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I swung by Red Bridge Pond this morning and had the same experience as = Gayle. The ducks and coot swarmed for the seeds but the gallinule = ignored them. I left a head of lettuce on the sand bar but it wasn't = touched before I left. The rescue strategy is working! The gallinule is already habituated to = check out the sand bar. It walks out of the water and looks around the = bar for goodies. I suspect it is looking for protein so salmon may be = the answer. Canned fish cat food is cheapest. Canned Chum or Pink Salmon = is not expensive either. Leave the Sockeye Salmon for Hans please. There is more open water this morning so I'm hoping the area stays open = enough all winter so the coot and gallinule can escape predators, while = they visit the sandbar area. Hans _________________________________________________________________________= ________________________________ Hans Toom Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada http://www.hanstoom.com/ ------=_NextPart_000_0038_01CCD2AB.95F12070 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1" = http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META name=3DGENERATOR content=3D"MSHTML 8.00.6001.19170"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>I swung by Red Bridge Pond this morning = and had the=20 same experience as Gayle. The ducks and coot swarmed for the seeds but = the=20 gallinule ignored them. I left a head of lettuce on the sand bar but it = wasn't=20 touched before I left.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial><STRONG>The rescue strategy is = working</STRONG>!=20 The gallinule is already habituated to check out the sand bar. It walks = out of=20 the water and looks around the bar for goodies. I suspect it is = looking for=20 protein so salmon may be the answer. Canned fish cat food is cheapest. = Canned=20 Chum or Pink Salmon is not expensive either. Leave the Sockeye = Salmon for=20 Hans please.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial>There is more open water this morning = so I'm hoping=20 the area stays open enough all winter so the coot and gallinule can = escape=20 predators, while they visit the sandbar area.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2 face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2=20 face=3DArial>Hans<BR>____________________________________________________= _____________________________________________________<BR>Hans=20 Toom<BR>Portuguese Cove, Nova Scotia, Canada<BR><A=20 href=3D"http://www.hanstoom.com/">http://www.hanstoom.com/</A></FONT></DI= V></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0038_01CCD2AB.95F12070--
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