Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 18:01:58 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Joe Halloran Subject: Re: Crow/Pileated Interactions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I dont know about others but this kind of interchange is not clutter but rather what I look for here. Joe Halloran lowkey@speakeasy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kurt R. Schwarz" To: Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 2:21 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Crow/Pileated Interactions > Right now there is a pair of Pileated Woodpeckers in back of my house > in Howard County. The wood chips are flying, though I do not believe > they are excavating a nesting hole. In any case, a crow, presumbably > American, (all I get here though Fish Crows frequent Chatham Mall a > mile away)is hanging around the Pileateds, and occassionally flies at > them, causing the Pileated to move out of way. Does anybody have any > idea of what the crow is up to? Since I've seen no food items collecteby > the Pileateds, klepto-piracy does not appear to the motivation. > > Please reply off-line, so we don't clutter the listserv up too much. > I will summarize the replies I receive, if any, and just do one post. > > Kurt Schwarz > Howard County > white-crown@home.com > > ======================================================================= > 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================