[NatureNS] Mystery underwater pellets

Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 12:08:13 -0300 (ADT)
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Well Nancy the lake is home to a lot of large Snapping turtles?</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Perhaps they didn&#39;t use doggie bags!<br/></span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Also there may be springs in the Little Mush but 2 rivers feed into out.<br/></span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Out of Whale Lake, Mushamush Lake, Caribou Lake with all the other<br/></span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">little lakes around. <br/></span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Enjoy the fall<br/></span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Paul<br/></span>
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   On October 1, 2017 at 9:56 AM nancy dowd &#60;nancypdowd@gmail.com&#62; wrote:
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    My brother was snorkelling in Little Mushamush L, Lun Co. yesterday. A deep clear spring fed lake. He encountered groups of seemingly regurgitated pellets on the bottom. Here is his description:
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    <span>Individual pellets were&#160;1/2 to 3/4&#160;inch in diameter and slightly longer, found in groups and usually a bunch of them in the same area. Looked just [like] scat but with organics stripped off - so a loosly bound together gray mass of what seemed to be small bones. When you picked it up underwater it was cohesive, but would readily come apart with minimal pressure. I snorkelled all around one island in north part of Mushamush, and saw them in gravel/rock in various places in water up to 8 ft deep. All within 50 feet of shore (after that depth drops off rapidly).&#34;</span>
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    I thought maybe Pike? Birds? He notes he has seen a large Brown Bullhead (fish) around this island before. The island is covered with tall pines growing right to the waters edge. Any ideas?
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    Nancy D
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