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Index of Subjects --part1_5ba82.1822e425.3e97f7e9_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Back in the frozen North after the winter in Florida. Notable sightings included a closeup of a Mother dolphin teaching it's baby to catch fish by repeatedly throwing a fish into the air about 10 ft. The Indian River lagoon is still a great place but is suffering from pollution and runoff that kills the seagrass, the main food of manatees, among other problems. The resident dolphin population, which rather surprisingly don't go to sea and generally don't mix with populations in other parts of the lagoon, are to some degree a managed population. The Oceanographic institute has names for most of them and conducts medical checks from time to time. They suffer from pollution including buildup of prescription medication that get flushed into the canals that feed the lagoon. Interested in the Caracara sighting locally. The previous day I had been telling the Grandchildren about one feeding on a carcass out in the savannahs in Florida. There was one Caracara feeding and several Black Vultures watching but not trying to feed while the Caracara was at the carcass. Very much a pecking order . Had some good sightings of sandhill cranes with new chicks. They seem to flourish in central Florida but it is now illegal to feed them. They become quite aggressive when hungry and will peck at screens and windows. Were delayed for 10 minutes or so on I-95 in Northern Maine by a yearling Moose who didn't know what he wanted to do. Also saw a couple of large flocks of Turkeys. It only took a couple of hours to get the birds back to the feeders. Lots of the usual birds, woodpeckers, chickadees, nuthatches and a male Cardinal. Peter Stow Hubbards --part1_5ba82.1822e425.3e97f7e9_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content=3D"text/html; charset=3DUS-ASCII" http-equiv=3DContent-Type> <META name=3DGENERATOR content=3D"MSHTML 9.00.8112.16476"></HEAD> <BODY style=3D"FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 10pt" id=3Dro= le_body=20 bottomMargin=3D7 leftMargin=3D7 rightMargin=3D7 topMargin=3D7><FONT id=3Dro= le_document=20 color=3D#000000 size=3D2 face=3DArial> <DIV><FONT size=3D3>Back in the frozen North after the winter in Florida. N= otable=20 sightings included a closeup of a Mother dolphin teaching it's baby to catc= h=20 fish by repeatedly throwing a fish into the air about 10 ft. The Indian Riv= er=20 lagoon is still a great place but is suffering from pollution and runoff th= at=20 kills the seagrass, the main food of manatees, among other problems. The=20 resident dolphin population, which rather surprisingly don't go to sea and= =20 generally don't mix with populations in other parts of the lagoon, are to s= ome=20 degree a managed population. The Oceanographic institute has names fo= r=20 most of them and conducts medical checks from time to time. They suffer fro= m=20 pollution including buildup of prescription medication that get flushed int= o the=20 canals that feed the lagoon.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D3>Interested in the Caracara sighting locally. The previo= us day=20 I had been telling the Grandchildren about one feeding on a carcass out in = the=20 savannahs in Florida. There was one Caracara feeding and several Black Vult= ures=20 watching but not trying to feed while the Caracara was at the carcass. Very= much=20 a pecking order</FONT> . <FONT size=3D3>Had some good sightings of san= dhill=20 cranes with new chicks. They seem to flourish in central Florida but it is = now=20 illegal to feed them. They become quite aggressive when hungry and will pec= k at=20 screens and windows. Were delayed for 10 minutes or so on I-95 in Northern = Maine=20 by a yearling Moose who didn't know what he wanted to do. Also saw a couple= of=20 large flocks of Turkeys. </FONT></DIV> <DIV> <FONT size=3D3>It only took a couple of hours to get the birds b= ack to=20 the feeders. Lots of the usual birds, woodpeckers, chickadees, nuthatches a= nd a=20 male Cardinal.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D3>Peter Stow</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D3>Hubbards</FONT></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML> --part1_5ba82.1822e425.3e97f7e9_boundary--
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