Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 09:04:12 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Frantz Subject: Re: What a difference on the other side of the pond MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 2/22/00 8:49:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ccrabtre@RADIUM.NCSC.MIL writes: << Seems to me that what the folks in the UK should focus on is promoting BIGGER raptors...maybe that will take care of the real problem - cats! >> Absolutely! PBS-TV presented a program last year which specifically targeted a study made concerning the free-wheeling British feral cat predation on songbirds. Can't recall the numbers of birds picked off by the whiskered creatures but seems to me it was in 6 figures up to a million. Gail Frantz Reisterstown, MD guineabird@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================