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Really appreciate your observations, Paul.
Want to add a disquieting appendix: I'm on the Climate change Action Plan
committee for Yarmouth. I'm told we should anticipate warmer, wetter
winters, and hotter, drier summers, in future. Weather in current and
recent years seem to back that up.
We'd better start taking rain water storage more seriously!
From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca]
On Behalf Of Paul MacDonald
Sent: June-14-12 8:16 AM
To: Nature NS
Subject: [NatureNS] Evening on the River
Hi All
Last evening we went for a paddle on the river.
Beautiful evening and the east wind was kind enough to be quite as the sun
went down and the river was still. The water level is lower than we ever saw
last summer
and its only mid-June. But the paddling was easy.
At sundown the river herring started to take flies of the surface. 10 - 12
could be seen at once.
They are heading out to sea and are hungry after all the efforts of
spawning.
An Eagle was sitting up on a tree - looked like a second year lad. She/he
was wanting
kippers for dinner and as the herring were on the surface no doubt would
have one.
The eagle had an escort of grackles and blackbirds on the trees nearby. As
we watched
a small hawk came shooting by - looked like a Sharpshin but it was so fast
hard to tell.
A grackle had the misfortunate of being flying around at the time. The hawk
gave chase
and they went across the river but the grackle wasn't up to the task and as
the hawk grabbed
it, both disappeared into the grass on the far side. I doubt he baked it in
a pie.
I don't know if the hawk had learned to hunt near eagles or no. The grackles
would be distracted
and provide easy targets but thats how it worked.
Just as we were leaving a salmon jumped a bit down river. Sort of the
signature
to a very pleasant evening - for us at least if not some of natures
creatures.
Have a nice spring
Paul
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style=3D'background:white'><span style=3D'color:black'>Last evening we =
went for a paddle on the river.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p =
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style=3D'color:black'>Beautiful evening and the east wind was kind =
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style=3D'color:black'>went down and the river was still. The water level =
is lower than we ever saw last summer<o:p></o:p