Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 15:16:12 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Linda Baker Subject: Kinder Park Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" I stopped by Kinder Park late yesterday afternoon. The only notable species that I saw were a fox sparrow and a Cooper's hawk. I was only there for about an hour and the light was failing rapidly. However, I spoke with ranger Dave Farner who filled me in on some things I've missed. There have been several American tree sparrows, one came to a feeder at the office that morning. Also good numbers of fox sparrows. They have seen two eastern screech-owls at wood duck boxes--one a red phase bird and more recently a gray phase one. Also the killdeer are back. Notable in their absence were field sparrows and American kestral. (Earlier in the season, rangers found a pile of kestral feathers and also a pile of sharp-shinned hawk feathers. There was a large Cooper's hanging around at the time; it's the suspected culprit. Do raptors often prey upon other raptors? Not exactly cannabalistic since they are different species, but I found this surprising.) Linda Baker quiltbird@annapolis.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================