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Actually, that helps them more than scoring on the opposition... better draft choices.

Yes, it is unfortunate that they have got 6 out of 12 possible points over the last 6 games.

They jumped 2 positions higher in the standings.

Ice goes out on my lake in mid June!!!

Then she freezes up in mid to late October.

Eric Brewer is huge..He will be a beat for the buds....

And he scored his first goal as a Leaf tonight.

Too bad it was on Bernier!!!!

T'was a nice deflection though.

Oh no! Bambi is no longer the cute and cuddly creature we've been led to believe!!!!! What do we tell the children?????????.

Dont mean to derail the thread but you have seriously got to be kidding LOL!

We once put my buddies 15 on the back of my 12' tinny.

Freaking thing went like Miss Budweiser!!!! LOL

Yes it is spendy there but nice.

The input I have had is mainly from people here @ work.

There are quite a few that have been there for work or play and have enjoyed it.

Can't say about the fishing but you're on the island so there are plenty of opportunities from the beach to bass lakes.

If you want something less $$$ you will need to get away from the city.

Everyone I know that has ever been to Victoria has said they love it.

I always say that if humans were the only species to eat meat, I would agree we are in the wrong. But many many species on this planet do it.

 

 

​And it's not only the carnivores that are the meat eaters.

Even those cute critters that eat soy and alfalfa and corn like a little extra protein in their diet.

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/news/press/ontape.htm

 

Biologists taking advantage of the latest advances in surveillance technology are recording big game animals doing some pretty wild things these days, like elk eating sage grouse eggs and white-tailed deer preying on songbird nestlings.

So what's going on in the wilds of North America? Has El Nino driven our cervids mad?

No, say biologists, these things have probably been going on a long time. Only now, with technology such as miniature video cameras allowing biologists to monitor nests, have they been able to discover and document such behavior.

"You come up with stuff that just surprises you because nobody's documented it before," says Wyoming Game and Fish chief biologist Reg Rothwell.

While probably not common, biologists say, the predaceous behavior of deer and elk is probably not that unusual, either. The animals are simply taking advantage of a quick, easy, nutritious meal.

"You think of these animals as grazers or browsers," says Rothwell, "but they occasionally eat some pretty weird stuff." Last year, for instance, a Game and Fish researcher's remote camera captured an elk eating eggs from a sage grouse nest.

"Some of these animals really are omnivorous," says Pam Pietz, a wildlife biologist at the USGS Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center in North Dakota. Pietz likely has the first-ever photo documentation of a deer predating a bird nest. "If they come across a nest, where the food doesn't move or run away, they'll take advantage of it."

Using miniature video cameras to document the fate of grassland songbird nests, Pietz has recorded nest predations by white-tailed deer, Franklin's ground squirrels and mice in addition to the more well-known nest predators like foxes and weasels.

In two years of 24-hour-a-day nest monitoring, Pietz has documented nest depredations in 29 nests. White-tailed deer hit two nests and field mice hit three. The most common nest predators, Franklin's and thirteen-lined ground squirrels, preyed on a combined total of 13 nests. She only documented one nest being predated by a red fox, one by a weasel and two by a badger (another nest predator could only be identified as either a fox or coyote).

Biologists have known ground squirrels and deer mice can be serious nest predators, but Pietz's research may have added another rodent species to the list: jumping mice. A video of a possible jumping mouse is currently being analyzed to confirm its identity.

"Nobody's ever implicated them as possible predators of nests. They may be another group of mice that's important as a nest predator that hasn't been recognized as such."

No one has documented white-tailed deer preying on nests before either, she says. A few years ago, Canadian bird researchers capturing songbirds in mist nets reported deer eating songbirds right out of the nets. Although they also suspected the deer as nest predators, they could not confirm it.

But Pietz now has proof they are, at least in North Dakota. The deer her cameras recorded found the nests when they were grazing at night. They may have been attracted to the adult bird flushing as the deer approached. In both cases, the nests contained nestlings. But Pietz is confident that if a deer found a nest containing eggs, it would eat them too. "They don't have to be stealthy predators to take eggs out of a nest," she points out.

When she first recorded a deer eating nestlings, she wondered if they would eat eggs, too. She incorporated the help of a captive deer at the research center to find out. "We presented it with a few quail eggs -- just to see what it would do -- and it munched them right up."

It's not too surprising that a variety of animals would be interested in nest contents, says Rothwell. "There's certainly some nutritional value."

Indeed, by necessity bird eggs are one of nature's most complete nutritional packages. Unlike fish and amphibian eggs, birds and reptiles hatch when they are nearly fully developed (as opposed to hatching into a larval form, like a tadpole).

But since bird and reptile embryos develop outside the body of a female (unlike most mammals), their eggs must provide them with all the nutrients necessary to fully develop.

To meet the demand of a growing embryo, eggs provide high quality protein (containing all the amino acids), as well as fats, lots of vitamins including A, D, and E, and scores of minerals like calcium and zinc.

And nestlings are a good source of protein, fats and other nutrients.

So how big a deal is this ungulate nest predation? Should we blame low numbers of sage grouse or dropping numbers of grassland songbirds on elk or deer?

Rothwell says that these predations probably occur only occasionally and are nothing to worry about. "It's not a huge problem, and it's probably been going on for eons."

To find out more about the Pietz study, visit (http://biology.usgs.gov/news/98-011.htm) on the Internet.

Mike

You might want to let her know that not all trophy hunting is bad.

For instance in Africa the tag fees are used for conservation and enforcement and without the "trophy hunters" it is very likely that rhino and elephants would disappear in short order.

When a trophy hunter goes to Africa to hunt elephant just the cost of the tags are in the range of $25,000.

Now those high fence hunts they do a lot of in the US.

Yeah, those suck.

HAHAHA!!!

Legwand meet the 33 train!!!

 

 

Anyhow I think I\m going to give up. I'm going to give her a call and tell her its her choice.

Good choice Mike.

 

Is that a playoff beard?

NAH, it's just there to catch the crumbs.

I used a 1/2" thick piece of UHMW on my boat.

Picked up an off cut at a plastic place fer cheap.

Way better than spending the $$$$ they want for the ones made expressly for the job.

Like this one from BPS for $20.

http://www.basspro.com/Transducer-Mounting-Plate/product/9153/

I think I paid 1/2 that for a piece that would make 2 boards.

It's also possible that this winters extreme cold may have caused the issue due to the metal contracting more than it may have ever before. Just a guess on my part.

LOL Now that he has not been traded,he wants to speak out.LMAO

 

Yeah, saw that earlier.

This from the same guy that told the pylon to "go eff himself" during a game.

Maybe if you fixed her a nice hamster sammich she would change her mind.

If that doesn't work maybe seek professional help.

Something like this?

http://www.amazon.ca/C-E-Smith-Pontoon-Post-Guide-On/dp/B000A87848

Lots more options if you order from the states though.

lookinforwalleye,

 

Cappacola, that is a long way from gobbledygool but you translated it somehow. That is a good belly laugh for sure. It is pork butt spiced rolled in black pepper salt and if hot gobbledygool pepperoncino flakes and cured. Cappa as in head or end in Latin or Italian, also Cappo as in top dog. Cappo di tutti Cappi. boss of bosses. The heel or end of a loaf of bread is the coppalla. Regardless I have never liked gobbledygool or Gabbagool as the Americans call it.

That was totally tongue in cheek. I guess I should have made that more obvious!!

So you're saying you have no native friends then?

Maybe you should get one. Believe it or not they aren't all thieves.

I have a friend who is part native. I'll ask him if he took it. Or maybe he knows who did!!

Why? Is your native friend a thief?

Does he live on the reserve or hang around with thieves?

If so you may want to find another friend.

Exciting llama chase!!!!

That Gino is a real cowboy, or is that llamaboy?

 

Router could definitely be the issue, I've seen it before. He should have enough bandwidth for sure, that's why I'm thinking hardware. Might need to upgrade to something like a Asus AC66/68U or a Trendnet AC1900 (This is what I run). I'd also setup a guest network (Which is basically like creating another VLAN) which will keep traffic separate.

We use virtual access points as a way to separate our traffic.

Cant believe I forgot about the trade deadline today. Thanks Bill. I know what I'm doing for the next 4 hours.

Me too.

Err, I mean I'm working.

Yeah that's it, working.

This thread seems to be taking a wrong turn. No one is saying all Aboriginal Natives on 6 Nations is a thief or an Ironworker. That's like saying I am from 100% Italian DNA so I must be in the Mafia. There is hard data to suggest that there is a criminal element that hides on the reserve behind the threat of civil unrest. Things come in threes, Iperwash, Caledonia, no one wants another.

Don't forget Oka.

You can pick up plugs at Canadian Tire.

FYI you will need the serial # of the motor in order to get parts for it.

You should still be able to get some parts at your local Mercury Marine parts counter.

Here are a few links for getting other parts:

http://www.marineparts.com/PARTSPAGES/mercurymariner.htm

http://www.usboatsupply.com/outboard-parts.php

http://www.maxrules.com/fixmercindex.html