Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 05:32:56 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Frantz Subject: Re: "Attack" bluebird MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 8/2/2001 8:07:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Warblerick@AOL.COM writes: << Has anyone else experienced this: ...the male swooping in on my head (though it never actually hit me). ...neighbor...dogs...>> Yes, it happened to me some time ago. The attacks increased in ferocity as the juvenile bluebirds matured. When the adult male actually touched my head on one or two occasions, it was a most unpleasant sensation (not unlike hummers hitting you 'long side the head when protecting their nectar sources.) Too bad all BB's aren't so aggressive. << I'd swear he'd taken attack lessons from a goshawk! >> The Bluebird's bombing strategies were more likely learned from an arrant Mocker. Gail Frantz Reisterstown, MD guineabird@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================