Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2000 16:10:20 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Bob Mumford Subject: Re: Hermit Thrush diet MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This afternoon I watched a Hermit Thrush pick up and eat black oil sunflower seeds 15 feet from one of my windows. Has anyone else seen this unusual behavior? Can thrushes digest and take nourishment from hard covered seeds like this? None of my references suggest that hermits take anything other than soft fruit. Bob Mumford Darnestown ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ================================================================================================================================================