Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 23:23:22 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Tom Beal Subject: Red-shoulder fledglings. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Was watching my daughter's softball game at the field behind Chapel Forge Elem. in Bowie at about 7 pm this evening, when there was quite a ruckus in the woods 30 ft behind third base. Mother/father Red-shouldered Hawk had brought a meal to a nest and two large juveniles weren't sharing very nicely. One got pushed aside and flew/flopped to a nearby branch and squawked up a storm. Then it returned and pushed aside its sibling and feasted for a while as the other sounded off. This went on for 20 minutes, I saw one adult and possibly both nearby. Things quieted down and when we left one juvenile was sitting on the nest and another was a leafy branch nearby, with his wings extended, looked like for balance. Tom Beal Glenn Dale, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================