[NatureNS] Re: mouse or mole eating underwater

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From: Mary Macaulay <marymacaulay@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2013 21:34:19 -0300
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Very interesting
The tree looks like black locust

Mary Macaulay, P.Eng.
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> On Oct 28, 2013, at 8:35 PM, darrell@abolitphotos.ca wrote:
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> While out in the back woods camping we encountered a mouse to what we thou=
ght was bathing on a dam. I went and got my 400mm and watched and photograph=
ed it for about a half hour and noticed that it was actually eating somethin=
g, maybe the algae on the wood. It would duck under the falling water, dive i=
n and swim in water and popping around on the rocks. in one picture after I g=
ot home on the computer I noticed that there seems to be some sort of insect=
 on the side of board, see third image down, a whitish insect. The mouse spe=
nt quite a bit of time in that spot but also alot putting it's head under th=
e falling water and running up the dam. Very intertaining and puzzling.
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> What kind of mouse or mole is it and is this normal behavior?
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> it doesn't look like a deer mouse to me, this was way back in the woods wi=
th the nearest house miles away.
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> In the last link I have taken a picture of a tree with seeds pods on it, I=
 have no idea what it is but believe it is planted, there are many more tree=
s like this in the area but none had the seed pods on it like this one.
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> http://abolitphotos.exposuremanager.com/p/animals/_mg_9827mouseeatingondam=
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> http://abolitphotos.exposuremanager.com/p/animals/_mg_9829mouseondam_3
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> http://abolitphotos.exposuremanager.com/p/animals/_mg_9812mousefeedingonda=
m_3
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> http://abolitphotos.exposuremanager.com/p/miscellaneous/_mg_2012unknowntre=
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> All the best,
> Darrell
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