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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">Hi Dave and All</span>
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">The proverb is quite correct!<br/></spa=
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">Growing up on a potato farm there was l=
ots of plowing to be done<br/></span>
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">this time of years and the flock of gul=
ls always came with along.<br/></span>
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">A young set of legs was very useful at =
that time so I got to do a lot of plowing.<br/></span>
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">I even plowed with horses with both a s=
ingle furrow and a gang plow.<br/></span>
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">Then with a tractor. Good memories but =
I wouldn't be up to the horse <br/></span>
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">bit now!<br/></span>
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">The gulls of course were looking for lu=
nch and became quite tame. Some<br/></span>
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">would even stand on the plow to be firs=
t in line for the goodies. There was what<br/></span>
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">we thought was a very old gull, small a=
nd white, it only had one leg with a stump<br/></span>
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">for the other, everyone for miles aroun=
d knew it - called it Granny! It would stand<br/></span>
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">on the plow as it couldn't run very=
fast. a real pet. It probably was not a Herring Gull<br/></span>
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">but the farmers knew it was old.<br/></=
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">Mice were a favorite treat. Especially =
when plowing stubble. The gulls knew and would<br/></span>
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">leave someone plowing lea and go to som=
eone plowing stubble! When the sod turned over<br/></span>
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">the mouse would fall in the dead furrow=
and the poor little fellow would scurry along<br/></span>
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">looking for a place to hide. The gull w=
ould put its head down and open its mouth. The little<br/></span>
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">mouse would see the dark tunnel and run=
it! It would then become a snack!<br/></span>
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">You would see more nature plowing a fie=
ld than on a TV show!<br/></span>
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">Enjoy the last of fall<br/></span>
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">Paul<br/></span>
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On December 2, 2015 at 8:41 PM David & Alison Webster <dwebster@=
glinx.com> wrote:
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There is a French proverb which translates as 'Gulls follow the plo=
w', but the original escapes me.
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DW
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<strong>From:</strong>=20
Jim Wolford
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naturens
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<strong>Sent:</strong> Wednesday, December 02, 2015 5:55 PM
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<strong>Subject:</strong> [NatureNS] gulls & tractor, red-tails, b=
. eagles, Can. geese, hooded merganser
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<span style=3D"font-family: 'Helvetica';"><strong>From: </st=
rong></span>
<span style=3D"font-family: 'Helvetica';">Jim Wolford <<=
a href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>><br=
/></span>
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<span style=3D"font-family: 'Helvetica';"><strong>gulls &=
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<span style=3D"font-family: 'Helvetica';"><strong>Date: </st=
rong></span>
<span style=3D"font-family: 'Helvetica';">December 2, 2015 a=
t 5:54:43 PM AST<br/></span>
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ng></span>
<span style=3D"font-family: 'Helvetica';">Nature BNS <<a=
href=3D"mailto:nature@blomidonnaturalists.ca">nature@blomidonnaturalists.c=
a</a>><br/></span>
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<span style=3D"font-family: 'Helvetica';"><strong>Cc: </stro=
ng></span>
<span style=3D"font-family: 'Helvetica';">Jim Wolford <<=
a href=3D"mailto:jimwolford@eastlink.ca">jimwolford@eastlink.ca</a>><br=
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<strong>DECEMBER 1, 2015</strong> - On the northeast Grand Pre dyk=
elands, I found a=20
<strong>tractor ploughing</strong> the soil of a field and it was =
attended by=20
<strong>300++ gulls</strong>, which were a mixture of about half=
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<strong>herring gulls</strong>, half=20
<strong>ring-billed gulls</strong>, and a handful of=20
<strong>great black-backed gulls</strong> (less than 10).
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Concerning raptors, on a power-pole was a probable mated pair of a=
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<strong>red-tailed hawks</strong>.  Also I saw a=20
<strong>possible n. harrier</strong>, but it was distant and soari=
ng high above the fields.  Also I saw 2 separate=20
<strong>bald eagles</strong>, a subadult and an immature, both sit=
ting on the ground.
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<strong>DEC. 2, 2015 </strong>- Both=20
<strong>Canard Pond</strong> and=20
<strong>Saxon St. Pond</strong> were ice-covered, with no water bi=
rds, but at the latter pond there were at least 17
<strong> bald eagles</strong> perched together in the trees along =
the west shore of the pond =E2=80=94 this is a long-standing spot for varia=
ble numbers of bald eagles to perch socially for long periods during the da=
y.
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The ice on those two ponds did not discourage me from checking out=
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<strong>Silver Lake at Lakeville</strong>, where there was a mostl=
y sleeping flock of 150+=20
<strong>Canada geese </strong>(no variants nor neck-collars) and, =
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<strong>hooded merganser</strong>.
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Cheers from Jim in Wolfville.
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