Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 13:16:35 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Jerry and Laura Tarbell Subject: Re: Bike Trail MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit J.B., I had the same impression. I just came back up from the lake and no signs of the battle now. But, like you, I wonder of there's a dead one in there now. Jerry "J. B. Churchill" wrote: > Jerry, > I once witnessed 2 Snapping Turtles doing battle in the C&O canal > while I was hiking (from Sharpsburg to Seneca). It was pretty amazing and > I thought for sure that one of the turtles was surely going to die. After > I watched the fight go on for at least 15 minutes I realized that I was not > the only one watching the fight. Perched on the opposite side of the Canal > were 2 Barred Owls. I suspect that they were waiting for one of the > turtles to lose the fight !!! It was a fairly memorable experience. I > never did find out if the owls did battle over the remains of the unlucky > turtle. > > J.B. Churchill > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > At 12:35 PM 5/24/2001 -0400, you wrote: > >Rode the North Central Bike Trail this AM. For those of you who are not > >familiar with this little gem, it starts on Papermill Road in > >Cockeysville and is now complete all the way to York, Pa. (Rails to > >Trails project). Very good birding all the way as it follows the > >Gunpowder and its tribs for the whole way through Md. > >This AM had two different least flycatchers, one visual just south of > >Blue Mount Rd at a bridge over the Gunpowder. Also an excellent look at > >a Kentucky W. about a half mile north of Weisburg Rd. Tons of usual > >things like acadian, great crested and a good look at two redstart males > >having a 'disagreement' over where the territories meet. This trail is > >also probably second only to C&O for Orioles per square foot. > >Question: Has anybody ever seen two snapping turtles fight? Saw it when > >I got home in the lake in front of our house in N. Carroll Co. Nasty > >battle to say the least. By the way, this little lake has had a female > >bufflehead in it since a week before the count and is still there. Bob > >Ringler says that's close to a record for Carroll. Yesterday had a > >Blue-winged Teal, but not there today. > >Jerry Tarbell > > > >======================================================================= > >To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > >with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > >======================================================================= > > ====================================================== > > John B. Churchill, M.S. Home (304) 292-5072 > GIS Analyst Work (304) 293-4832 > West Virginia University ext. 4456 > Natural Resource Analysis Center Fax (304) 293-3752 > P.O. Box 6108 > Morgantown, WV 26506-6108 > > webpage: http://www.nrac.wvu.edu/users/jbc > > ======================================================================= > 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================