[NatureNS] Gray jay gets the mouse

Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 08:56:12 -0300 (ADT)
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   <span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">Hi Donna and All</span>
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   <span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">This story reminds me of years ago when=
 the<br/></span>
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   <span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">ice fishing for pickerel first started.=
 A friend wanted<br/></span>
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   <span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">to try it so we planned to go one cold =
morning.<br/></span>
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   <span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">Before we left I checked my mouse trap =
in the basement<br/></span>
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   <span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">and had caught a mouse. So I put it in =
a plastic bag and put<br/></span>
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   <span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">it in my pocket. and forgot it was ther=
e.<br/></span>
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   <span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">While we were fishing a fellow came aro=
und doing a survey of<br/></span>
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   <span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">what we were using for bait. I remember=
ed the mouse and quickly<br/></span>
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   <span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">put it on my hook and down the hole.<br=
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   <span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">He came to me and asked what I was usin=
g. A mouse I said - A what?<br/></span>
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   <span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">he answered I said Une souris! - I unde=
rstand English he said and when<br/></span>
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   <span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">I&#160;showed him &#160;the wet mouse o=
n the hook I though he would barf! </span>
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   <span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">I&#39;ll not eat any fish </span>
   <span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">from this lake he said as he stomped of=
f!<br/></span>
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   <span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">Have an enjoyable week!<br/></span>
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   <span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">Paul<br/></span>
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   <span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">&#160;</span>
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    <p class=3D"MsoNormal">My mother=E2=80=99s gray jays are still coming t=
o the yard regularly for food.&#160; They are believed to be nesting nearby=
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    <p class=3D"MsoNormal">On Friday, the cat caught a mouse, possibly its =
first one (it=E2=80=99s a young cat).&#160; It dropped it near the door bef=
ore it entered the house.&#160; A short while later, my mother saw a gray j=
ay flying toward the woods with a large piece of cargo on board (in its bea=
k).&#160; She looked out to see most of the mouse was gone.&#160; The cat h=
adn=E2=80=99t eaten any of it, so I guess the gray jays ate well that day.<=
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    <p class=3D"MsoNormal">Donna Crossland</p>=20
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