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During the first part of this week the large areas of remaining open wa= ter on James and Hudson Bays in Canada froze up (still a couple of small ho= les open well offshore) so perhaps we could now expect a southward surge of= white-winged gulls and maybe, just maybe some rare waterbirds like eide= rs, alcids (dreaming here) and more. Check out the ice cover and snow cove= r for North America at http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SNOW/DATA/cursnow_usa.g= if. Note the complete absence of ice on the Great Lakes! Bob Russell, US F= ish and Wildlife Service, Ft. Snelling, MN= --0__=09BBF8CBDFCD5ABD8f9e8a93df938690918c09BBF8CBDFCD5ABD Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable Content-type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline <html><body> <p>During the first part of this week the large areas of remaining open= water on James and Hudson Bays in Canada froze up (still a couple of s= mall holes open well offshore) so perhaps we could now expect a southwa= rd surge of white-winged gulls and maybe, just maybe some rare waterbir= ds like eiders, alcids (dreaming here) and more. Check out the ice cov= er and snow cover for North America at <i><a href=3D"http://www.ssd.noa= a.gov/PS/SNOW/DATA/cursnow_usa.gif">http://www.ssd.noaa.gov/PS/SNOW/DAT= A/cursnow_usa.gif</a>. </i>Note the complete absence of ice on the Gre= at Lakes! Bob Russell, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Ft. Snelling, MN<= /body></html>= --0__=09BBF8CBDFCD5ABD8f9e8a93df938690918c09BBF8CBDFCD5ABD--
