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--Apple-Mail-5--135812571 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; delsp=yes; format=flowed Begin forwarded message: > From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford@eastlink.ca> > Date: April 7, 2014 7:22:26 PM ADT > To: Nature BNS <nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca> > Subject: [ValleyNature] Hall's 'Harbour birds + 'rabbit'/hare? > > Mike, please let me know if your 'rabbit' is not a varying hare, =20 > alias snowshoe 'rabbit' (hare). Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. > > P.S. The well-known rabbits at White Point Lodge are true rabbits =20 > (not hares), not native but introduced (and did not hybridize with =20 > snowshoe hares), and are the same European rabbit species that was =20 > unfortunately and infamously introduced to Australia and, like the =20 > cane toad in some many warm places, became a huge pest for a long =20 > time until the disease myxomatosis (and other measures?) was able =20 > to control the rabbits. Also I recommend the book "Watership Down" =20= > by Richard Adams, for a great fictionalized account of European =20 > rabbits and their society. > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Mike McCall <frogmore@xcountry.tv> >> Date: April 7, 2014 9:25:56 AM ADT >> To: NatureNS@chebucto.ns.ca >> Subject: [NatureNS] Hall's 'Harbour birds >> Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca >> >> >> Today=92s dawn brought the sun and (probably) the three Fox Sparrows =20= >> that have been feeding >> voraciously beneath my feeders since last Wednesday. The usual =20 >> crowd of >> Ch=92dees, Juncos, RB Nuthatch, Purple Finches (who are also =20 >> singing), Goldfinches >> are here and a Raven did a low pass over the area where he (or his =20= >> twin) >> scored a recently deceased Red Squirrel last week. >> >> That Spring! is about to envelope us was signalled by an adult =20 >> rabbit munching >> parsley in the kitchen garden. >> >> Mike McCall > > _______________________________________________ > Nature mailing list > Nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca > http://blomidonnaturalists.ca/mailman/listinfo/=20 > nature_blomidonnaturalists.ca --Apple-Mail-5--135812571 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=WINDOWS-1252 <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> <br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">"James W. Wolford" <<a = href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>></fon= t></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">April 7, 2014 7:22:26 PM = ADT</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">Nature BNS <<a = href=3D"mailto:nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">nature@blomidonnaturalists.c= a</a>></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>[ValleyNature] Hall's 'Harbour birds = + 'rabbit'/hare?</b></font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; = margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: = 14px; "><br></div> Mike, please let me know if your 'rabbit' is not a = varying hare, alias snowshoe 'rabbit' (hare). Cheers from Jim in = Wolfville. <div><br></div><div>P.S. The well-known rabbits at = White Point Lodge are true rabbits (not hares), not native but = introduced (and did not hybridize with snowshoe hares), and are the same = European rabbit species that was unfortunately and infamously introduced = to Australia and, like the cane toad in some many warm places, became a = huge pest for a long time until the disease myxomatosis (and other = measures?) was able to control the rabbits. Also I recommend the = book "Watership Down" by Richard Adams, for a great fictionalized = account of European rabbits and their society.<br><div><br><div>Begin = forwarded message:</div><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: = </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" style=3D"font: 12.0px = Helvetica">Mike McCall <<a = href=3D"mailto:frogmore@xcountry.tv">frogmore@xcountry.tv</a>></font></= div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica">April 7, 2014 9:25:56 AM = ADT</font></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" = size=3D"3" color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a = href=3D"mailto:NatureNS@chebucto.ns.ca">NatureNS@chebucto.ns.ca</a></font>= </div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: = 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3" = color=3D"#000000" style=3D"font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: = #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face=3D"Helvetica" size=3D"3"