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This is definitely the season of ducks around the Vancouver Island neighborhood. Twenty-six species regularly winter here, and they pro-vide a lot of viewing enjoyment for nature lovers, birders, and photog-raphers. In fact, the majority of my winter photos are probably of ducks.

One of my favourite targets is the handsome Hooded Merganser. It is the smallest of our three merganser species.

The Red-breasted and Common Mergansers are among the largest ducks and compar-able in size to the Mallard at about 60 centimetres in length. The smaller Hooded Merganser averages about forty-five centi-metres.

Both the male and female Hooded Mergansers are endowed with elegant crests. The stylish reddish-brown hairdo of the female always reminds me of the television celebrity, Marge Simpson. Meanwhile, the attractive male in breeding plumage is striking.

Its snowball white crest outlined in black is a sight to behold. It can be flattened or stretched to give many different looks. It is round when it is relaxed, and when my son was a preschooler he called it a golf ball head.

The slim, serrated bill is the dis-tinctive feature of all mergansers. As it is in most cases, form dictates function, and the serrated bill is per-fectly suited for grabbing small cray-fish, crabs, aquatic insects, and fish.

The Hooded Merganser is one of our least abundant species. It is usu-ally found in pairs or small groups in protected water fresh water sites close to shore.

However, I have seen them in the

salt water at Comox Marina, but they are more common in fresh water like the river at Courtenay Airpark. My theory on its lack of abundance is the shortage of breeding sites close to sizeable ponds or lakes. The Hooded Merganser is a cavity nester and util-izes abandoned woodpecker holes in rotting trees or snags.

Suitable snags are hard to come by under normal condi-tions and are utilized as nest trees by a variety of birds like woodpeckers, swallows, chickadees, owls, and ducks. Unfortunately, most humans view snags as danger or nuis-ance trees and routinely remove them when logging or land clearing.

That means the mergansers often have to nest a fair dis-tance from the safety of water. When the ducklings leave the

nest they face a death defying trek to the nearest pond which could be several kilometers. This is when they are the most vulnerable, and many fall prey to the gauntlet of natural predators as well as marauding feral and domestic cats.

The good news is that like Wood Ducks, the Hooded Merganser will readily use nest boxes, and in some areas nest boxes have helped to sta-bilize the abundance of both ducks.

If you are interested in helping out these ducks, nest box patterns and instructions are readily avail-able online at sites like http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/wildlife/ndblinds/woodduck.htm.

(Editor’s note: Mike Yip is the author of Vancouver Island Birds. His books are available at Graham’s Jewellers, Blue Heron Books, CR Museum, Save On Foods, Coho Books, and Book Bonanza.)

Island BirdsMike Yip

Ducks in the ‘Hood’

Photos by Mike YipThe striking male Hooded Merganser above and the female below.

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You would’ve been something of a recluse late last year to not be aware of the colossal disaster in the United States regarding the implementa-tion of the health care program generally known as Obamacare. Even in Canada the story featured prominently in the media for what seemed like weeks and swiftly acquired the unenviable status as a benchmark for poor government planning to which other newly introduced programs can be compared.

Now you may be forgiven for wondering just what this introduction is doing in a column ostensibly focused on the recreational fishery on Canada’s west coast. However it seems to me that the rolling out of Obamacare is a cautionary tale that our federal government should take heed of because, on an admittedly more minor scale, it seems all too likely it is about to commit the same error of poor planning and imple-mentation with a program that is directly part of the recreational fishery here. I’ve mentioned this once or twice before in previous columns over the past year but there’s a big change coming very soon to an important aspect of the tidal waters recreational fishery — how an angler purchases his or her license.

Starting with the new license year, gone will be the familiar ritual of stopping by one’s favour-ite tackle store and pulling out last year’s worn license for the friendly clerk to copy from while engaging in the important chit-chat central to tackle stores everywhere, finding out the latest hot fishing news. An option for the past couple of years, as of this coming April 1 you will have no other choice but to purchase a license on-line and, looking at how this big change is taking place, anglers would be well advised to make the pur-chase from home if at all possible.

This has nothing to do with a change of per-spective by tackle stores or other customary out-lets — of course they want you the angler to stop by as often as possible — but rather the way the federal government has decided to implement the change. As part of a broader directive affecting far more than recreational license sales in the Pacific region, the Harper government as part of its “do more with less” philosophy has decided to end all over-the-counter financial transactions with the public.

Never mind that a significant percentage of the recreational fishing public chooses to do so on a spur of the moment decision far from home, or in the case of visitors to Canada, are doing so out of their home country. In these many instances, although having access to a computer on the go is increasingly common these days having a printer linked to it is much less so.

There has been what I would describe as minimal effort by the federal government to pro-mote awareness of this change within the Pacific region, although a number of people, residents all, have told me that had they not read about it in this space they likely would still be in the dark. However of real concern is the fact that the federal government has made no plans to let visitors from afar, Canadian or otherwise, know that they can no longer purchase licenses in the same way they have for the past 30 years.

I don’t work in a tackle store but I’m familiar with the usual scene early to mid summer, with visitors crowding in to stock up on the latest fish-ing reports and hot gear for the destination they’re heading to and to purchase a license. Imagine the scene when suddenly they find out they can’t buy it over the counter and instead have to do so on-line, especially if there is umpteen equally hurried people in a line-up ahead, all waiting to use what in all likelihood will be a single computer/wi-fi connection, assuming there’s one at all.

Here’s why I don’t think I’m suffering from an overly vivid imagination — having decided to get rid of over-the-counter sales of paper licences,

the present federal government has made it clear to the vendors that they are now responsible to provide the computer, printer, ink cartridges, paper and on-line linkage if they want to keep selling licenses. And, as a final drop kick to the sensitive regions from a supposedly business friendly govern-ment, it will no longer be reimbursing vendors the customary $1 fee for each license sale.

It should come as no surprise to learn that some outlets have simply decided that they aren’t going to con-tinue selling licenses, unable to justify equipment costs for this new regime,

especially as they aren’t going to get even the smallest of compensation for assisting the public in this compulsory exercise. This will in turn put an additional burden on those outlets that will continue to sell licenses, adding to any possible delays there.

One of the big concerns about any electronic outlet is “system crash” when there’s too many potential users all attempting to do so at the same time. This is not an unfounded fear with numer-ous examples, including Obamacare, available to illustrate the point. The economic loss through the recreational fishery infrastructure of such an occurrence in the middle of a long weekend, for example, will far outweigh any probable first year savings to government.

Those in the business of selling licenses have pleaded to be able to have a paper back-up option should the electronic system go sideways, pleas that have fallen on deaf ears in Ottawa.

I think it fair to say that regional DFO staff have their misgivings at the speed of implementa-tion of electronic licensing for the recreational fishery here and have made the case for a more phased approach, their arguments also unheeded by those who will be insulated by distance from the heat of public anger if the electronic licensing system of their construction fails.

I hope I’m wrong and that all goes well with this program implementation. I don’t take any great pleasure out of writing “I told you so” pieces, there’s more interesting things to write about.

However for those away from home when needing to purchase a license the likelihood of a challenging summer ahead is fairly high, some-thing that the federal government could avoid with a little more forethought and flexibility in combin-ation with less zeal to put this change in place by April 1, 2014 come what may. Time will tell …

In the meantime, get ready to purchase your next tidal waters license on-line and preferably at home.

Ardent AnglerJeremy Maynard

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In the relative microcosm of Vancouver Island, for example, claims related to fire and lightning caused by weather jumped from lev-els of about $1.2 million per year in 2010 and 2011 to $6.5 million in 2012. Corresponding claims for wind damage rose from about $250,000 per year to $2.9 million. Total claims for 2012 were $15 million, equal to the sum of the previous two years — with almost all the increases related to weather. Consequently, the annual premiums for the usual package of house insurance commonly rose by a hundred dollars or more.

Across Canada, the situation is similar. “There are more and more storms happen-ing,” said Pete Karageorgos of the Insurance Bureau of Canada, “and we’re seeing extreme weather events that happened once every 40 years... that can now be expected to hap-

pen once every six years” (The Vancouver Sun, Jan. 9/14). Consequently, “the amount of claims that have been presented has been averaging about a billion dollars (more) a year over the last three years or so” (Ibid.). Extreme weather events that cost Canada less than $200 million in 2006, reached $1.2 billion in 2012. Domestic fires, which were once the principal cause of insurance payouts, have been replaced by flooding, the result of engineered drainage systems being overcome by torrential rainfall. Wind dam-age from powerful storms has move up to the second highest cause of claims.

“It’s just been five horrendous years in a row,” confessed Glenn McGillivray, managing director of the Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction. Just two events in the last year — June’s flooding in Alberta and July’s torrential rain-fall in Toronto — brought the insured property damage to $3 billion. The costs to insurance companies of the devastating ice storm that hit Toronto and parts of Ontario, Quebec and the Atlantic Provinces during the last days of 2013, have yet to be calculated — the

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In the United States in 2012, the arrival of Hurricane Sandy caused $65 billion in destruction to the US Atlantic coast — hap-pily for the insurance compan-ies, less than half was insured. The storm, however, has forced some property owners in New York and New Jersey to confront the options of moving away from shorelines, elevating their homes, or paying flood insur-

ance premiums of as much as $31,000 a year (Associated Press, January 29/13). The same year’s drought in the US Midwest did $20 bil-lion in crop damage, of which $17 billion was insured.

Outside Canada and the United States, the indications of extreme weather are repeated — except the numbers are correspondingly lar-ger. Munich Re, one of the world’s largest re-

insurance companies, has been using the best meteorologists, hydrologists, geologists and geophysicists available to understand and pre-dict the increasing number of extreme weather events it has been noting since the 1970s, well before climate change became a term of com-mon usage. Their insurance rates are rising as their actuarial studies reveal a clear indication of increasing risk from extreme weather.

Material damage, however, is just the sur-face of the problem for the insurance industry. Because it will insure everything from homes and crops to product delivery and sporting events, anything that creates uncertainty adds to risk and affects insurance rates.

So heat waves that are now predicted to occur every two or three years in the US Midwest and central Europe, according to Munich Re’s research, mean that premiums for insuring anything remotely related — from soybean crops to shipping schedules — will have to rise accordingly.

As weather becomes more extreme and unpredictable, the whole system of payment for risk becomes more expensive.

Every claim that is paid by the insurance industry is recorded somewhere in a Great Actuarial Ledger to become additional costs forwarded to future policy holders — most of whom do not realize that these increased pre-miums are actually carbon taxes.

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NORTH ISLAND RHODODENDRON SOCIETY • Rock gardens are the focus for the February meeting of the North Island Rhododendron Society (NIRS) but with a special nod toward rhodo lovers and our west coast climate. NIRS members Dany Fortin and Shane Tillapaugh look at select-ing rock garden plants for shade and sun and touch upon the symptoms of Plant Collectors Syndrome. The dynamic duo of Fortin and Tillapaugh promise lots of infor-mation with a dollop of humour. The meet-ing will be on Tuesday, February 11 with doors opening at 7pm and the meeting starting at 7:30PM. NIRS meetings are held every second Tuesday of the month in the Comox United Church hall, 250 Beach. Refreshments are served and guests inter-ested in membership are welcome to attend.LEARN “RESEARCHING FAMILY HISTORY” • The next meeting of the Comox Valley Family Research Group will take place on Tuesday Feb 11, at 7 p.m. at The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, 1901 20th St., Courtenay. This month’s topic will be researching the site “Familysearch.org”. For further information contact Marlene at 250-334-3080MEDITATION CIRCLE • Every Tuesday morning, 11-12. We are a healing con-sciousness, sending light to troubled areas to effect peaceful change in our world, praying for those who are struggling, heal-ing ourselves and raising our vibration in the process. Everyone welcome - no meditation experience necessary. No charge. FMI call 250-334-9412.JUST BY CHANTS • Mystic Valley Voices, universal chanting community, meets 6:45-8:30 pm every Tuesday at the Little Red Church (house), 2182 Comox Ave.

361 Hunt Place, Courtenay, 5 - 10 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 13. Dinner, silent auction, raffle draw and more, with music by David Somers and Celtic Cargo Cult. FMI and tickets: 250-338-4890.COURTENAY LEGION • Every Thursday: Crib & Gucci 6:30, Men’s Darts 7:00. FMI: Courtenay Legion office at 250-334-4322.THERAPEUTIC RELAXATION PROGRAM FOR PERSONS WITH CANCER IN THEIR LIVES • Thursdays, 3-4 p.m., Nursing Centre, 615 10th St., Courtenay. Free. Sponsored by BC Cancer Foundation, BC Cancer Agency, Pacific Therapy and Consulting. FMI: Diane Davies 250-338-2700.THERAPEUTIC RELAXATION PROGRAM FOR PERSONS EXPERIENCING CHRONIC PAIN OR ILLNESS • Thursdays, 1:15-2:30 p.m., Nursing Centre, 615 10th St. Free. Sponsored by the Nursing Centre. FMI: Diane Davie 250-338-2700.TOPS #BC 4893 COMOX • Meets on Thursdays, 1:30-2:30 p.m., at Comox United Church. FMI: Rosemary 339-3014.COMOX VALLEY SCHOOLHOUSE QUILTERS GUILD • Meets every Thursday, from 9 A.M. till 9 P.M. at the Cumberland Cultural Centre (Buchanan Hall). For further infor-mation please contact - Carol 871-6671 or Nerissa 941-1809.

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Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014 NORTH ISLANDER 76 NORTH ISLANDER Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014

WWW.BILL HOWICH CHRYSLER.COM2777 NORTH ISLAND HIGHWAY 1 Kilometre North of the Campbell River Bridge

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hall. Doors open 6 pm, bingo 7 p.m. All money goes to charities. Free coffee and tea.

ST JOSEPH’S HOSPITAL AUXILIARY SOCIETY • Annual General Meeting will be held Tuesday February 18th in the upper hall of the Comox legion. We will be holding election for the New executive for our Centennial year 2014. Please make an effort to attend.

HEART SUPPORT GROUP • Comox

Valley Chapter Monthly Meeting February 19, 7PM, Comox Recreation Centre, 1855 Noel Ave. Our group is a support group for anyone who has had a heart pro-cedure, is about to undergo a heart procedure and their spous-es.· Our guest speaker for this meeting is Tim Cowan, Pharmacist from the Medicine Shoppe in Comox. There is no charge for our meetings & all are welcome. For more information, please call: (250) 339-5349BETTER BREATHERS • How to Be a Wise Health Care Consumer! Wednesday, February 19 from 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 pm. at the Comox Valley Nursing Centre, 615 10th St., Courtenay. The facil-

itator is Mark Shultz, Nurse Practitioner. Family and friends are welcomed. FFI call Michele at 250/331-8502

TSOLUM CELEBRATION • Come celebrate the Fall’s bountiful Pink salmon run with Tsolum River Restoration Society. Hear all the good news in the Tsolum Watershed! 5 pm: Annual General Meeting, 6:30 BBQ salmon dinner, 8:00: dance to local band Flying Debris! February 22nd, Merville Hall, Island Highway. Questions? ph: willa 250-337-8524

COMOX LEGION BROADWAY SHOW • Comox Legion Br 160 has the return of Bonnie Kilroe with her Broadway Show on 14th February - Valentine’s Day. Doors open at 5:30 to dine at 6:30 pm and Show to start at 8 pm. Dinner will be Cordon Bleu and tickets are available at the bar until closing on 12 Feb. Cost: $30 per personCOMOX VALLEY POTTERS SECONDS SALE • One Sweetheart Of A Deal! Friday and Saturday, February 14 & 15, at The Driftwood Mall in Courtenay, our local potters guild is having its annual Clearance and Shy of Perfect sale.COURTENAY LEGION • Meat draws every Friday, 5-7 pm.COMOX LEGION • Meat draws every Friday, 3 p.m. Open to all Legion members and signed in guests.

HERITAGE DAY • Feb. 15 at the Cumberland Museum. There will be a Glass Jar Lantern Workshop, Guided Walking Tour, Museum Tour and much more. Check out the Schedule of events at www.

cumberlandmuseum.caOCEAN WAVES SQUARE DANCE CLUB VALENTINE’S DANCE • 7:30 - 10:00 p.m., Feb. 15 at the Filberg Centre with caller Fran & Roger Archambault and cuer Lorna & Carmen Corbet. FMI call Cathy or Guy at 338-7942.ANNUAL STRAWBERRY TEA & BAKE SALE • Saturday, Feb. 15 at St. George’s United Church, 6th Street & Fitzgerald Avenue, Courtenay. Doors Open at 1:30 p.m. Bake Table will open 1:45 p.m. Tea served between 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Admission: $5.00 Take out orders: $4.00.OPEN JAM • With Pete and Jamie from the Jagsters at the King George Hotel in Cumberland every Saturday from 3 to 6.AFTERNOON JAM • With Gord Kruger and “The Amigos”. Enjoy a lively afternoon of dancing and relaxing with Gord Kreuger and his band every Saturday, 2pm to 6pm in the Courtenay Legion Lounge. 367 Cliffe Ave., Courtenay. [email protected] Maureen Watson, 250-334-4322COMOX VALLEY FARMERS MARKET • 9-12 every Saturday, Native Sons Hall, downtown Courtenay. Come for the fresh-ness, stay for the fun! FMI: Mkt. Mgr. Vickey 250.218-0321 or or www.comoxvalleyfarmersmar-ket.com & keep in touch on Facebook.COURTENAY LEGION • Meat draws every Saturday 2-5 p.m. in the lounge.COMOX LEGION • Meat draws are held every Saturday 3 p.m. plus

Ace of Spades draw.

COURTENAY LEGION • Every Sunday: Crib 1:00, Gucci 1:30, $5 Sunday Supper 4:00. It’s only $5 for a delicious home-made meal. Bring your favourite friend or fill up a table! Birthday parties welcome! Legion members and bona fide guests. FMI: Please contact the Courtenay Legion office at 250-334-4322MEAT PACK BINGO • The Royston-Cumberland Lions Club is hosting a meat pack Bingo every Sunday at the Cumberland Hotel from 1-3 pm. There will be a total of 10 games at a cost of $1 per game, with a maximum of two cards, plus a 50-50 draw. Once a month there will be one game on the 10-game card for a mega-pack at a cost of $2 for this one only. All are welcome to come and support us, must be 19 years and older, all proceeds used in the community. FMI: Lion Mary or Bob at 250-334-3014.

CRIBBAGE • Every Monday night, 7:00, at the Royston Hall, corner of Old Island Highway and Royston Road. No need to bring a partner. FMI: 250-334-1883.LADIES AUXILIARY DROP-IN BINGO • Comox Legion Ladies Auxiliary Drop-in Bingo, upper

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STEVEMARSHALLFORD 1-888-474-2712 WWW.SMFORD.CA

SHANE LUKINUKSales Manager

SHAWN EDWARDSSales Manager

HENRY (Ford) ALBRECHTFinance Manager

ARON WELSHFinance Manager

TOM KIRKBYSales Consultant

NICK ROSESales Consultant

NELSON GILETTESales Consultant

SCOTT WOODSales Consultant/Lease Specialist

BEN COYLESales Consultant

2010 GMC SierraSTK# 21421

$19,800

2005 Ford EscapeXLT 4x4STK# 21062

2012 F150 Supercab4x4STK# 20371

$25,980

2010 Dodge Ram 1500Crew Cab 4x4STK# 534271

HEMI

2011 F150 4x4STK# 21441

Crew Cab, only 56,000 kms

$23,488

ONLY20,229 KM

ONLY81,400 KM

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2007 F350 4x4 Harley Davidson

STK# 534472

$19,900

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2008 Ford Ranger Super CabSportSTK# 21321

$10,800SAVE BIG

Automatic, a/c, only 84,000kms

2013 F350 Crew Cab4x4 DieselSTK# 21301

$44,800SAVE BIG

2012 F250 4x4 Crew CabSTK# 21121

$31,800SAVE BIG

2008 F350 Super Cab 4x4with Tradesman CapSTK# 21341

$19,900SAVE BIG

Huge Value Added!62,000 kms

Ready to Go!Won’t Last

2005 F150 Super CabFX4 4x4STK# 533971

$14,600SAVE BIG Leather

Loaded

Ext. Cab, 4x4 SLE

6.2L Gas, Perfect Work Truck

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Prices valid:Feb. 11 - Feb. 18, 2014

Levelling KitIncluded!

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SALE$9,980

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