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		<title>Killing fish for fun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning was cool, fresh and lovely, but I should have gone earlier. Every spot at the big pond&#8217;s edge was occupied by people fishing. There was even a contingent dressed in camouflage and with a big net. 
The ducks and geese were trapped in the water unless they could fly away.
I try not to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cool-universe.com/blog/?p=144</link>
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		<title>July Heat &amp; Eastern Cottontails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can count my park visits on my fingers due to July heat and humidity. However, I was there enough to notice rabbits popped up. 
In the preceding 6 years, I had 2 rabbit sightings. This year I&#8217;ve seen individuals at both ends of the park, and caught a couple of bunnies playing together in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cool-universe.com/blog/?p=140</link>
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		<title>Motorcycle Fishing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was up on the rise away from the little cove where herons visit and geese and ducks nest when I heard men&#8217;s voices. I picked out colored shirts and thought there were three, who I figured would have fishing poles. When I came up the road I was slightly astonished to count eight men [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cool-universe.com/blog/?p=135</link>
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		<title>Wildlife Harrassment &amp; Worse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday my daughter and I witnessed a young man let his large, black dog plunge into the small pond after the wood duck hen and young that were resting on a log. A woman who was in the park today had two dogs, one on a lead, the other she let run free where [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cool-universe.com/blog/?p=130</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[This shot was taken with the sun at a bad angle, but there was a pair of geese with their two young and a big family of wood ducks (I counted 11 young) all together, so I could not resist. It wasn&#8217;t until I uploaded the images to my PC that I saw the big [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cool-universe.com/blog/?p=126</link>
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		<title>Geese spotted &#8211; Gorgeous thrushes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My mind was eased today after I spotted a group of geese, &#8211; adults and 8 juvenile geese on the marshy spit (usually overrun by people fishing). &#8211;It would be better if I saw all 12 little ones, but maybe tomorrow.
This was the first sun in many days and there were 3 (painted) turtles soaking [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cool-universe.com/blog/?p=122</link>
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		<title>Missing Geese</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The rain was crazy last night. The weed from the small pond was up 3 feet onto the shore and several mid-large tree limbs were down behind the school. Despite that I got a record count of chipmunks (28), nearly as many squirrels (including 2 black morphs), saw a young rabbit and a pair of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cool-universe.com/blog/?p=118</link>
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		<title>Maintenance calls my house&#8230;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday afternoon I got a call from the Parks Maintenance Department, as the man was asking about the dead chicken. [I assumed the Park Ranger gave him my number after my report(s)] So I explained (again) the body was at the Armory Street trash can at the entrance adjacent to the playing field. The man [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cool-universe.com/blog/?p=116</link>
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		<title>Dead gosling</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So sad. Every year I have eagerly counted the yellow fuzzy goslings to arrive at a peak (15 this year) and see the numbers dwindle. This past week it seemed there was a constant 12 being cared for two sets of parents in a big bunch.
Yesterday I walked with my daughter and her boyfriend. As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cool-universe.com/blog/?p=114</link>
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		<title>Public lewdness and another headless chicken</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My daughter and I went running to see why some Canada Geese were honking like crazy, -always a bit fearful they and/or the little ones were being accosted. As we topped the rise where we could see to the water&#8217;s edge, two loud adult geese directed their attention to a couple on the ground nearby. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://cool-universe.com/blog/?p=105</link>
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