Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 17:37:26 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Janet Millenson Subject: Re: Possible Breeding Bird Atlas Record MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To follow up on Steve Huy's comment about raptors, American Crows are also "beginning to renew their pair bonds" -- watch for two birds perching close together and occasionally preening each other. Crow courtship behavior later in the season includes a sort of weird cooing noise (remember, taxonomically crows are songbirds). I know my husband is lucky I didn't choose MY mate based on plumage and singing ability... ! Janet Millenson Potomac, MD janet@twocrows.com --------------------------------------------------- "Look at the birds!" -- Pascal the parrot ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================