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On 4/18/2017 11:11 AM, Laviolette, Lance wrote:
> “Truck loads from TO” reminds me of a story...
* ...on our 2002 James Bay Expedition - http://pinicola.ca/g2003b.htm -
we found a very tame single Canada Goose at a boatlunch ramp way north
in Quebec - and the sad story we told was that she'd mated with a
northern Quebec male during the winter, had followed him north, and he'd
been taken out by the spring Goose hunt, leaving her an urban widow in
the wilderness.
fred.
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> ...Paul. About 40 years ago
> there was an effort made to ‘reintroduce’ Canada Geese in Cape Breton
> near CBHNP. They trucked in a bunch of TO geese and let them loose on a
> lake. Now these geese were quite use to humans having been rounded up in
> the friendly confines of the TO shoreline. It wasn’t long before the
> local residents of that area of CB realized that. There was good eating
> in those parts while the geese lasted…
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> Cheers,
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> Lance
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> *Lance Laviolette*
>
> Glen Robertson, Ontario
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> *From:*naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca
> [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] *On Behalf Of
> *rita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca
> *Sent:* Monday, April 17, 2017 8:26 AM
> *To:* naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
> *Subject:* EXTERNAL: Re: [NatureNS] Miner's Marsh KIngfisher
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> Isn't it fun about the Canada Geese Doug?
>
> One group wanted to introduce Wild Turkeys and
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> all the Naturalists got against it - made plenty of noise
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> so WT went away.
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> Another group wanted non migratory Canada Geese so
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> they learned from the WT fiasco and just brought a couple of
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> truck loads from TO and let them go - no fuss - no muss!
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> Now they are in every puddle around and the Naturalists
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> love them! Things work in wonderful ways!
>
> Enjoy the spring
>
> Paul
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>
>> On April 16, 2017 at 11:17 PM Doug Linzey <doug@fundymud.com
> <mailto:doug@fundymud.com>> wrote:
>>
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>> This afternoon at Miner's Marsh, a kingfisher and an impressive number
>> of Tree Swallows. We watched a pair of Canada Geese mating (I'd never
>> witnessed the preceding head-bobbing routine before). And a lone
>> Pied-billed Grebe was calling somewhat plaintively, clearly in search of
>> a mate.
>>
>> Doug Linzey
>
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