Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 22:32:52 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Danny Bystrak Subject: Peregrine & Merlins & Soras MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Today (10-6-01) about 11:45 AM, i saw a merlin, a peregrine, then a second merlin flying north up Jug Bay from my backyard perch. The second Merlin took a dive on a bird as it passed. Spose the peregrine was probably the same one seen later by Fred and company eating a Ruddy Duck. This has been the best year ever for SORA's behind my house. For several weeks now, they have been calling up a storm every day. The peak seemed to be yesterday and the day before when it literally sounded like hundreds of them calling (but it was probably a couple of dozen) -- and without provocation! After the cold front i heard none. danny bystrak bristol, AA Co. MD wiwr@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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================