[NatureNS] Gray jay gets the mouse

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Many years ago I was fishing the Cowichan River on Vancouver Island for =
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Brown Trout. I hooked and landed a good sized fish which promptly coughed=
 up a=20
 mouse.Much to my amazement it lay for a few moments then shook itself and=
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took  off into the grass. I can only assume that it had been taken moments=
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before the  trout took my lure.
Peter Stow
Hubbards=20
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In a message dated 2017-04-17 4:31:52 P.M. Atlantic Daylight Time, =20
dcrossland@eastlink.ca writes:

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That=E2=80=99s a wonderful story,  Paul.   I rather suspect that chain pic=
kerel=20
might go after a mouse,  at any rate, but you=E2=80=99d know best.  =20
Donna=20
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From:  naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca=
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On  Behalf Of rita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca
Sent: April-17-17 8:56  AM
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
Subject: Re: [NatureNS]  Gray jay gets the mouse

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Hi Donna and  All=20
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This story  reminds me of years ago when the
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ice fishing  for pickerel first started. A friend wanted
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to try it so  we planned to go one cold morning.
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Before we left  I checked my mouse trap in the basement
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and had caught  a mouse. So I put it in a plastic bag and put
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it in my  pocket. and forgot it was there.
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While we were  fishing a fellow came around doing a survey of
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what we were  using for bait. I remembered the mouse and quickly
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put it on my  hook and down the hole.
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He came to me  and asked what I was using. A mouse I said - A  what?
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he answered I  said Une souris! - I understand English he said and  when
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I showed  him  the wet mouse on the hook I though he would barf! =20
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I'll not eat  any fish from this lake he said as he stomped off!
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Have an  enjoyable week!
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Paul
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On April 16,  2017 at 10:33 PM Donna Crossland <dcrossland@eastlink.ca>=20
wrote:  =20
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My mother=E2=80=99s gray jays are still coming to the yard  regularly for=
 food. =20
They are believed to be nesting  nearby.=20
On Friday, the cat caught a mouse, possibly its first one  (it=E2=80=99s=
 a young=20
cat).  It dropped it near the door before it entered the  house.  A short=
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while later, my mother saw a gray jay flying toward the  woods with a larg=
e=20
piece of cargo on board (in its beak).  She looked  out to see most of the=
 mouse=20
was gone.  The cat hadn=E2=80=99t eaten any of it,  so I guess the gray ja=
ys ate=20
well that day.=20
Donna Crossland=20


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