a the Fisherman’s Cove aréa.

Last winter the vessel was. tied up for several

| ‘months at a new berth in a local shipyard.

Cove, is

moorage- ele mk
Saturday ts | ‘boat aay’. Too much food at one time. es
‘When I leave the house Mary is. a waste. ‘The crows.

gives me a bag of bread .
Scraps. PAost of last winter I.
the birds that frequented »

manage ‘all fight, stuffing

After afew weeks | I ‘think |

can only eat so much, $0 fast, .
they got to know my car. By

and any. extra. “soon “drifts: :

the time I got down to the "sway 0 or sinks.
- boat the birds would already .
be: there. : &
; on eres “Yds scatter bread crusts on i
_ the deck and let the crows
Several . ‘ducks: paddled ’ pick at it. all: day, but the best

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‘afternoon, while’ it was: Still
- “hee” ae Me
"came, but ‘they: were not as _
» regular visitors as the ducks - . ue
z and crows. oS it. ‘soon. “Became a. ‘nice.

. ee routine. I would clean the.

eee grease off my hands ; and take
. “off my coveralls, make coffee
a, and go up to the cockpit to sit
| . for a few minutes and feed.
the b birds. —

ye Wo ey

“The boat has a canvas and

fest ye plastic dodger on the back of.
Mame A the wheelhouse, and it’s a
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me, and this ‘blind’ showed

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unfortunately, hunters, use

Publisher approach much more readily,
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see rob Orohomn observe without disturbance.
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Nool Wright The crows were bright,
Managing Editor their beady eyes taking in
Andy Fraser . _ everything. that happened.
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gemember, with only one leg
Exsworth Dickson and one of the last to feed. It
Advartising Director kept falling over as it tried to
Eric Cordwett land and pick up the crusts,
Traffic Manager but it kept on and on until it
Donna Champion. - succeeded. Then he would
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Barbara Haywood realize that 1 meant no harm |
- Accounts and would come a little closer
Sylvia Sorenson than the others, landing on a

coil of rope on the deck and
feeding from. bits that

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The relationship between
the ducks and the seagulls is
very interesting. The sea-
guils are larger. and more

long, sharp bills and a
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was surprising to see them
———— keeping their distance from

“We:
were having some work done at Fisherman’s’

| th addled around at a
Wharf Marine Services. Ltd., and the shipwrights. e gulls p n

safe distance and. waited. In
used the sailboat asa ‘fill-in’ job. It was fine with —

me. The shipyard, at the mouth of Fisherman’s _ re
only a few minutes from home, and it took 9 5S. Towel out past the
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piece after piece in their bills ~
and flying off. to some ‘place: oe
to sort it out, but the ducks while a pattern ‘emerged.
There were ‘several . males,
brilliant’ with incandescent
\) greens, blues, whites and_
2 : blacks; and -slightly| fewer
- females - much more sedate

way. to feed the ducks \ ‘was, to

or’ es _ mates, and the first to feed
iS ‘the last were the ‘married couples’. .
Ss foodie took k place in the late ~

Of the food.

sailing in to Fisherman’s

“Passage, Island, a duck flew
'» afft.of the boat and came up

boat; and then settling down
to keep up - quacking all the

me why ornithologists and,

them all the time. If the bitds |
do not see a human they’
‘It must be.... and yet we
“were about two miles away
_ from Fisherman’s Cove. It

‘dumb’ animals.

fearsomely equipped, with-

the ducks. ‘The ducks came
close: to the boat and fed
vithout disturbance,

fact, if the guils were to get
any bread crumbs they had

"t know why it is, .
= that in

le by lost feathers
and other marks, and after a |

in their brown and. white
plumage.

Some . of ‘the. (males had

Then: the bachelors - would
come in to clean ‘up the rest

A. very ‘interesting ‘thing
happened twice in the
‘Spring: Bois times we were
Cove from the south tip of
‘Bowen. Island, and both
‘times, just as we passed
low overhead, made a turn

‘abeam of the cockpit, flying
-slowly and peering into the

into. the water and paddling

‘while. Of course, we fed it.
Wouldn't you? —

Do you think - as I do - that
they recognized the boat —
at sea and detached from its |
‘normal’. dock surroundings
—- and came to look for food?

says a lot for so-called

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