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		<title>Crayfish in the back lakes.</title>
		<link>http://opinicon.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/crayfish-in-the-back-lakes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Sarah M. Larocque and Mark A. Conboy In a recent blog post (November 11), we reported our results of the small fish community survey undertaken in the QUBS back lakes and wetlands this summer. In addition to gathering information on fish, we took advantage of our time on the water to sample crayfish [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opinicon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7868675&amp;post=623&amp;subd=opinicon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Opinicon’s Own Lichen</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Mark Conboy Among the least studied organisms at Queen’s University Biological Station are the lichens. That’s not to say that no one has bothered to look at them; in fact the discovery of a new species of lichen led to it being named after Lake Opinicon. Lecanora opiniconensis was first discovered and named [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opinicon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7868675&amp;post=620&amp;subd=opinicon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Small fish communities on the back lakes and marshes of QUBS</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Sarah. M. Larocque and Mark A. Conboy Throughout July and August, 2011, we conducted a preliminary fish survey of selected lakes and wetlands at QUBS. Our goal was to begin assembling a comprehensive understanding of the distribution of fish species in the major water bodies within the boundaries of QUBS properties. Although the distribution [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opinicon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7868675&amp;post=610&amp;subd=opinicon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two recent bee publications.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I subscribe to a number of listservs and on occasion am sent information on new publications that might be of general interest. One of these is a joint publication of the United States Department of Agriculture and the Pollination Partnership, a not for profit head-quartered in San Francisco entitled &#8220;Bee Basics An Introduction to Our [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opinicon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7868675&amp;post=600&amp;subd=opinicon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Rise of the Red-bellied Woodpecker</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 20:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Mark Andrew Conboy Numerous species of birds in Ontario have expanded their ranges further north in during the past century. For example, the Turkey Vulture (Cathartes aura) has dramatically extended its range throughout Southern Ontario beginning in the early 1900’s, when it was rare in most of the province but is today a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opinicon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7868675&amp;post=579&amp;subd=opinicon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The threatened (yet potentially plentiful) eastern musk turtle</title>
		<link>http://opinicon.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/the-threatened-yet-potentially-plentiful-eastern-musk-turtle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2011 13:02:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Sarah Larocque Few have seen the eastern musk turtle (Sternotherus odoratus), more commonly known as the stinkpot turtle. This might seem logical because of its current status as a threatened species both provincially and nationally. Perhaps just as likely is the possibility that this turtle goes relatively unnoticed because of its small size [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opinicon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7868675&amp;post=528&amp;subd=opinicon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>20 Years of Red-shouldered Hawk Surveys on Opinicon Road</title>
		<link>http://opinicon.wordpress.com/2011/03/22/20-years-of-red-shouldered-hawk-surveys-on-opinicon-road/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 14:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Mark Andrew Conboy &#160; Any day now the skies over Eastern Ontario will begin to ring with the calls of Red-shouldered Hawks (Buteo lineaus). This vocal hawk is one of the most commonly encountered raptors on the Frontenac Arch. It’s also one of the few forest raptors that have been subject to long [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opinicon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7868675&amp;post=522&amp;subd=opinicon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Observations; Below the Surface, Round Lake, QUBS lands</title>
		<link>http://opinicon.wordpress.com/2011/03/16/observations-below-the-surface-round-lake-qubs-lands/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by: Shirley French Daphnia pulicaria For August and September, 2010, I helped a student, Amy McMullin, conduct experiments in the ‘field’ at Round Lake.  We measured the physical parameters (i.e. temperature, oxygen, light), sampled the zooplankton and ran experiments with live critters (Daphnia) in bottles at different depths.  Our study species was D. pulicaria [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opinicon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7868675&amp;post=506&amp;subd=opinicon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hornemann’s Hoary Redpoll</title>
		<link>http://opinicon.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/hornemann%e2%80%99s-hoary-redpoll/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 16:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by Mark Andrew Conboy It’s no secret that QUBS is a great place for birds and birders alike. Enthusiastic birders visit Opinicon Road every spring to search for species that are at the northern edge of their breeding ranges such as Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus), Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus), Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea), Yellow-throated [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opinicon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7868675&amp;post=497&amp;subd=opinicon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Strange Goose at Chaffey’s Lock – 3 Years Running</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 18:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted by: Mark Andrew Conboy For the third winter in a row a peculiar Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) has put in an appearance at Chaffey’s Lock. I first saw this uniquely patterned goose (see picture) over a number of weeks at Chaffey’s Lock in the winter of 2008-09. I subsequently found it paired with a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=opinicon.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7868675&amp;post=406&amp;subd=opinicon&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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