Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 12:02:32 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Rob (Robert) Hilton" Subject: Re: Merlin Has Lunch In-Reply-To: <000901c06141$0ae87970$36e6a4d8@jett> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" This morning an (the?) immature Cooper's Hawk spent (another) 15 minutes spreading terror over the pigeon population of downtown Bethesda, Md. It flew around, pursued Rock Doves, even dove on one at one point, was divebombed by a (?Fish) crow, before benignly sailing away. Rob Hilton At 12:01 PM 12/8/00 -0600, you wrote: >Folks > >Wednesday at mid day a Merlin sat in Sycamore tree outside the west tower at >EPA (401 M Street, S.W., Washington, D.C.) and had lunch. It may have been >a House Finch. Earlier in the day an adult Bald Eagle, a species EPA >was instrumental in saving, soared over the building several times. The >last raptor species of the day was a female Sharp-shinned Hawk. Where's >that buteo I keep asking. > >George > >======================================================================= >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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================