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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Thanks Carmel.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">I think it was a Barred Owl but things</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">happened so quickly I knew it was an Owl and that was about all.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">If it was a young owl unskilled in the art of living it was learning in the school</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">of Hard Knocks!</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Enjoy the fall</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Paul</span>
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On October 2, 2019 at 10:56 AM Carmel Smith <girlby@yahoo.com> wrote:
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Enjoyed your canoe trip, vicariously, Paul! Was it a Barred Owl? Unusual to see a crow actually strike an owl? May be a young owl, unskilled in dealing with them?
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On Wednesday, October 2, 2019, 9:39:11 AM ADT, rita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca <rita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Yesterday was a fine day for a paddle on the Lahave.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">No wind or waves made it lovely for a friend and I.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">About 5 we went ashore for a break and a little lunch.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">As we stood talking a commotion of Crows approached. </span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">They were chasing an Owl and were not in good humour</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">judging by their calls. As the parade went overhead about tree height </span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">one of the crows dived the owl and struck it in the back.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">That loosened a bunch of feathers and as there was no wind</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">the feathers drifted down to us like a flurry of big snowflakes.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Perhaps 15 to 20 they were a beautiful small grey feathers.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">After the parade went by the owl flew into a grove of thick trees.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">The crows milled about for a little, declared victory and then went of</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">about other business.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Earlier a vulture flew high, very high over head. Going from North to South</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">very fast. It could scan a lot of country from that height.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">In the afternoon as the day warmed Dragon flies started out. Several different</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">species.  There was a few Caddis flies laying eggs on the water. Again</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">my knowledge of Caddis flies does not extend to iding species. And after</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">sundown a hatch of midges came off the water. Small fellows but lots of them.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">So many insects.</span>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Darkness ended a good day so we went ashore.</span>