[ValleyNature] Canada geese, hooded mergs, p-b grebe, rat

[James W. Wolford]

OCT. 17, 2009 - I forgot to mention two things yesterday: my Norway  
rat is back at my feeders, and again today; and there were about 10  
Canada geese at the Windsor sewage ponds.  Which reminds me, Pat told  
me there were oodles of Canada geese all day long last Tuesday, Oct.  
13/09, in the big field adjacent to the Hants Community Hospital in  
Windsor.

In Harris' Pond in Canning at 2 p.m. there were 100 Canada geese and  
no obvious ducks at all.

More exciting, in Lakeville's Silver Lake at 4 to 4:30 p.m., was an  
impressive honking gaggle? of about 500 Canada geese on the water,  
with no marked geese nor other species of goose.  Some of the geese  
were splashing and moving a lot, and it took me a while to figure out  
that they were just bathing.  Also present was a very active group of  
about 20 diving hooded mergansers, and a single pied-billed grebe  
that was not diving nor trying to hide at all.

Cheers from Jim in Wolfville

Jim (James W.) Wolford
91 Wickwire Ave.
Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada
B4P 1W3

phone 902-542-9204
e-mail <jimwolford at eastlink.ca>

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from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent  
disinclination to do so.
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[from Ecology Action Centre]
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