Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 19:57:09 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: rob gibbs Subject: Re: Pileated & Sharpie MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I once watched a sharpie in Wheaton Park harass a pileated woodpecker for 5 minutes or more; periodically flying off out of sight only to dart back in from another direction. It chased the pileated to several locations before finally giving up the chase - presumably to find something more its own size. I was surprised that it had attempted to attack something so much larger than itself. Janet Millenson wrote: > Last Friday I got within 3 feet of "our" Pileated Woodpecker when I was > refilling the suet feeder. Up close, his feathers were clearly more dark > brown than black, and the lores looked pale yellow. > > Yesterday, a large Sharpie (presumably a female) swooped at the Pileated, > with no luck. What's the largest prey any of you have ever seen a Sharp-shin > go after? (I've seen a Cooper's go after gulls.) > > Janet Millenson > Potomac, MD > janet@twocrows.com > > --------------------------------------------------- > "Look at the birds!" -- Pascal the parrot > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= -- Rob Gibbs Damascus, MD robgibbs@digizen.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================