Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 05:39:39 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Bonnie Ott Subject: Re: RB Mergansers at Centennial, 3/14 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Joel Martin wrote: > > On Sunday, while walking along the Patapsco at Woodstock, I flushed a Black > Vulture from a sand bar where it had been feeding on a dead raccoon. The bird > flew to a nearby tree, very perturbed, and uttered a couple of soft "woof" > sounds in my direction. First time I've heard such a vocalization. > > On time a small group of us rounded a corner and surprised some black vultures. they were sitting on a fallen log at eye level and made loud hissing noises at us.(like escaping steam) VERY creepy! Bonnie Ott Howard County Ellicott city ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================