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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">Well Billy I didn't sat RB Merganse=
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">They do but the others never!</span>
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">Enjoy the spring<br/></span>
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<span style=3D"font-size: 12pt;">Paul<br/></span>
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 April 13, 2018 at 4:15 PM bdigout <bdigout@seaside.ns.ca> =
wrote:
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<br/>> >>Paul said "Well John the ducks you mention all =
nest on
<br/>> >> fresh water with perhaps the exception of Red Brea=
sted Mergansers".=20
<br/>> >> The only Red-breasted Merganser nest I know of was=
in the roots of a=20
<br/>> >> tree near a freshwater pond in St. Peter's.
<br/>> Billy
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<br/>> On 13 Apr 2018 14:16, NancyDowd wrote:
<br/>> > Thanks all for these comments. That low croaking could =
be a Wood
<br/>> > Frog. The whistling was due to wings as I could hear th=
e splash
<br/>> > landing beyond the trees.
<br/>> >
<br/>> > I heard low croaking in a wet field this morning and th=
at was most
<br/>> > likely Wood Frog.
<br/>> >
<br/>> > Nancy
<br/>> >
<br/>> >> On Apr 13, 2018, at 12:21 PM, rita.paul@ns.sympati=
co.ca wrote:
<br/>> >>
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<br/>> >> So I don't know about your rule!
<br/>> >> Enjoy the spring
<br/>> >> Paul
<br/>> >> Of yes Nancy bird sounds like a Common Merganser. =
All ducks
<br/>> >> make a low whistle when its still!
<br/>> >> Paul
<br/>> >>
<br/>> >>
<br/>> >>
<br/>> >> > On April 13, 2018 at 10:42 AM John and Nhung=
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<br/>> >> <nhungjohn@eastlink.ca> wrote:
<br/>> >> >
<br/>> >> >
<br/>> >> > I have seen various "sea ducks" in f=
resh water: scaups,=20
<br/>> >> mergansers, buffleheads ...
<br/>> >> >
<br/>> >> > My brother saw a couple of buffleheads on La=
ke Milo north of=20
<br/>> >> Yarmouth earlier in the week.
<br/>> >> >
<br/>> >> > Back in the summer of '83, I was crossin=
g the "pond" on the Mersey=20
<br/>> >> below Rossignol, I saw a small, dark bird swimming=
. It took off:=20
<br/>> >> looked like a Wilson's Petrel to me. Reported =
it to Phyllis Dobson.
<br/>> >> >
<br/>> >> > Sea birds sometimes don't follow the rul=
es!
<br/>> >> >
<br/>> >> > -----Original Message-----
<br/>> >> > From: naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca=20
<br/>> >> [mailto:naturens-owner@chebucto.ns.ca] On Behalf O=
f Ken McKenna
<br/>> >> > Sent: April 13, 2018 8:41 AM
<br/>> >> > To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca
<br/>> >> > Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Duck ID?
<br/>> >> >
<br/>> >> > Hi Nancy
<br/>> >> > Goldeneye are known as whistlers and their f=
light noise sounds=20
<br/>> >> like whistling.
<br/>> >> > Common Mergansers sort of croak.
<br/>> >> > Cheers
<br/>> >> > Ken
<br/>> >> >
<br/>> >> > Ken McKenna
<br/>> >> > Box 218
<br/>> >> > Stellarton
<br/>> >> > NS B0K 1S0
<br/>> >> >
<br/>> >> >
<br/>> >> > > On Apr 13, 2018, at 7:40 AM, NancyDowd=
<nancypdowd@gmail.com>=20
<br/>> >> wrote:
<br/>> >> > >
<br/>> >> > > There are a limited number of ducks I =
have ever seen on this=20
<br/>> >> lake (L Torment, E Dalhousie, Kings Co). These inc=
lude Mallard, Black,=20
<br/>> >> Ring-necked, Wood, GW Teal, Hooded and C Merganser=
plus Bufflehead in=20
<br/>> >> Fall. Yest