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--Apple-Mail=_2B354613-005E-49EF-ACE1-5317CA73F3FE Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Paul, an easy guess for surf coot is surf scoter, but cockawee has me = stumped =97 maybe what we used to call old-squaw duck but now = long-tailed duck?? Cheers from Jim in Wolfville. Begin forwarded message: > From: Paul MacDonald <paulrita2001@yahoo.com> > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Kentville--Miner's Marsh-2014-11-6 > Date: November 6, 2014 at 6:07:12 PM AST > To: "naturens@chebucto.ns.ca" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> > Reply-To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca >=20 > hi Richard and All > Today at Mahone Bay - the bay not the town > where a little brook flows into the salt I saw > water splashing and something black in the middle. > I thought otter but when I put my binos on the spot, it > was a crow having a bath. I never saw one with such > an aggressive bath before. > Out in the bay was a flock of about 50 surf coot and the > same number about of cockawees. Whatever they are called today. > Enjoy the rain > Paul >=20 >=20 > On Thursday, November 6, 2014 3:53 PM, Richard Stern = <sternrichard@gmail.com> wrote: >=20 >=20 > Observer: rb_stern=20 > 2014-11-06 15:10 > Kentville--Miner's Marsh > Protocol: Traveling > Observers: 1 > 2 Mallard =20 > 5 Hooded Merganser All f/Imm type =20 > 1 Belted Kingfisher =20 > 1 Northern Flicker =20 > X American Crow Large number diving into trees. Impossible = to estimate total. =20 > 10 Black-capped Chickadee =20 > This report was created and sent using BirdsEye BirdLog = (http://birdseyebirding.com/) > Richard Stern=20 > Sternrichard@gmail.com > Sent from my Android device >=20 >=20 --Apple-Mail=_2B354613-005E-49EF-ACE1-5317CA73F3FE Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 <html><head><meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html = charset=3Dwindows-1252"></head><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; = -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Paul, = an easy guess for surf coot is surf scoter, but cockawee has me stumped = =97 maybe what we used to call old-squaw duck but now long-tailed duck?? = Cheers from Jim in Wolfville.<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;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">Paul MacDonald = <<a = href=3D"mailto:paulrita2001@yahoo.com">paulrita2001@yahoo.com</a>><br><= /span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>Re: [NatureNS] = Kentville--Miner's Marsh-2014-11-6</b><br></span></div><div = style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; = margin-left: 0px;"><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, = 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">November 6, 2014 at 6:07:12 PM = AST<br></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: = </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';">"<a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a>" = <<a = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a>><br= ></span></div><div style=3D"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; = margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span = style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, = 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style=3D"font-family:'Helvetica';"><a= = href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</a><br></s= pan></div><br><div><div style=3D"background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); = font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida = Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><div><span>hi Richard and = All</span></div><div style=3D"font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica = Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; = font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Today at = Mahone Bay - the bay not the town</span></div><div style=3D"font-family: = HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', = sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; background-color: = transparent;"><span>where a little brook flows into the salt I = saw</span></div><div style=3D"font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica = Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; = font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>water = splashing and something black in the middle.</span></div><div style=3D"font-family: HelveticaNeue, = 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; = font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; background-color: = transparent;"><span>I thought otter but when I put my binos on the spot, = it</span></div><div style=3D"font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica = Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; = font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>was a crow = having a bath. I never saw one with such</span></div><div = style=3D"font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, = 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; = background-color: transparent;"><span>an aggressive bath = before.</span></div><div style=3D"font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica = Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; = font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>Out in the bay = was a flock of about 50 surf coot and the</span></div><div = style=3D"font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, = 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; = background-color: transparent;"><span>same number about of cockawees. = Whatever they are called today.</span></div><div style=3D"font-family: =