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-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjus --Apple-Mail-107-427413650 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Andy, What makes you think that this is not a Right Whale? In the third photo the blowholes seem prominent, but I wouldn't think necessarily more so than a Right Whale. Was she able to get any photographs of the throat or of the flukes? Cheers! Chris On 25-Aug-12, at 11:32 PM, Andy Moir/Christine Callaghan wrote: > We're still awaiting confirmation, although it seems pretty > certain. I will put the photos Chris took up on the Nature NS > facebook page. As I mentioned in my earlier post, the whale was not > co-operating, and the Captain of the Pirates Cove boat, who > initially identified the whale, was not going to chase it...that's a > violation of their rules. > Andy > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Christopher Majka > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca > Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2012 10:54 PM > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] bowhead whale > > Hi Andy, > > Someone will doubtless correct me, but I'm not aware of any records > from Nova Scotia, and certainly not from the Bay of Fundy. There was > a skull excavated Ste Anne des Monts in the Gaspe Peninsula in 1949, > but I'm not aware of any records further south than this. A record > from the Bay of Fundy would be an extraordinary find. Have you > mounted any of the photographs anywhere to the web? > > Cheers, > > Chris > > On 25-Aug-12, at 9:33 PM, Andy Moir/Christine Callaghan wrote: > >> Can anyone tell me where to find records of bowhead whale sightings >> around Nova Scotia, and in particular the Bay of Fundy. We are >> just awaiting confirmation of a bowhead whale off Moore's Ledge, >> Long Island, Digby County, in the Bay of Fundy this past week. >> Apparently it was also reported earlier by one of the boats >> operating out of New Brunswick. >> Chris got a series of photos...although the whale was not >> particularly co-operative. >> We'd appreciate any information anyone has of these Arctic whales >> making their way this far south. >> Thanks, >> Andy > > > > Christopher Majka > Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 2G5 > c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca > > To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like > administering medicine to the dead. - Thomas Paine > > > > --Apple-Mail-107-427413650 Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi = Andy,<div><br></div><div>What makes you think that this is not a Right = Whale? In the third photo the blowholes seem prominent, but I wouldn't = think necessarily more so than a Right Whale. Was she able to get any = photographs of the throat or of the = flukes?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers!</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</d= iv><div><br><div><div>On 25-Aug-12, at 11:32 PM, Andy Moir/Christine = Callaghan wrote:</div><br class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote = type=3D"cite"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: = separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Times New Roman'; = font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; = letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: = -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: = normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div = bgcolor=3D"#ffffff" style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: = space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font size=3D"2" = face=3D"Arial">We're still awaiting confirmation, although it seems = pretty certain. I will put the photos Chris took up on the = Nature NS facebook page. As I mentioned in my earlier post, the = whale was not co-operating, and the Captain of the Pirates Cove boat, = who initially identified the whale, was not going to chase it...that's a = violation of their rules.</font></div><div><font size=3D"2" = face=3D"Arial">Andy</font></div><blockquote style=3D"border-left-color: = rgb(0, 0, 0); border-left-width: 2px; border-left-style: solid; = padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 0px; margin-left: 5px; margin-right: = 0px; "><div style=3D"font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; = ">----- Original Message -----</div><div style=3D"font: normal normal = normal 10pt/normal arial; background-image: initial; = background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; = background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(228, 228, 228); = background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial = initial; "><b>From:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = title=3D"c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca" = href=3D"mailto:c.majka@ns.sympatico.ca">Christopher Majka</a></div><div = style=3D"font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; "><b>To:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span><a = title=3D"naturens@chebucto.ns.ca" = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a></div><= div style=3D"font: normal normal normal 10pt/normal arial; = "><b>Sent:</b><span class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>Saturday,= August 25, 2012 10:54 PM</div><div style=3D"font: normal normal normal = 10pt/normal arial; "><b>Subject:</b><span = class=3D"Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [NatureNS] bowhead = whale</div><div><br></div>Hi Andy,<div><br></div><div>Someone will = doubtless correct me, but I'm not aware of any records from Nova Scotia, = and certainly not from the Bay of Fundy. There was a skull excavated Ste = Anne des Monts in the Gaspe Peninsula in 1949, but I'm not aware of any = records further south than this. A record from the Bay of Fundy would be = an extraordinary find. Have you mounted any of the photographs anywhere = to the = web?</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Chris</div>= <div>