Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 18:28:04 -0500 Reply-To: tjharten@concentric.net Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Thomas Harten Subject: Re: Drunk birds? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In 1996 I saw about fifty dead starlings scattered on the side of the beltway-I'd guessed they made a wrong move in front a truck and got clobbered. Perhaps the same happened with the Bowie birds? Tom Harten Croom ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Mumford To: Sent: Friday, March 31, 2000 4:11 PM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Drunk birds? > The birds "dropping" onto the highway turned out to be starlings, according > to the Post this morning. > > My best guess is that they were doing flock maneuvers, whirling around = as > starlings do, and got too low in the wrong place. The motorists who reported > seeing them "drop from the sky" probably could not tell that they were flying > when they were hit, as opposed to "dropping". > > If they were "drunk", it seems to me that there would be survivors staggering > around on or alongside the road. There was no report of anything other than > the dead birds. > > 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 > ========================= ================================================ > ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================