Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 18:24:11 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Paul Mocko Subject: Re: Gulls at Georgetown Resvr. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Unbelievable. Last Sunday morning (2/17)I saw a gull dropping a tennis ball on the dike at Georgetown Reservoir. Is this spring training behavior? Paul Mocko >From: Clive Harris Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding To: >MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Gulls at Georgetown Resvr. >Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 13:47:57 -0800 > >An adult Lesser Black-backed Gull was on the cross-dike at Georgetown >Reservoir again today. > >More interesting over the last 2 days has been watching some of the gulls >pass their time by playing with an old, worn tennis ball. The most >adventurous was a 2nd winter Herring Gull which put on a great show >yesterday, flying up high with the ball in its mouth and repeatedly >dropping the ball only to swoop down and catch it in mid-flight. If you >think that isn't impressive, try catching a tennis ball in your mouth. It >dropped the ball as well (more standard feeding technique used with >shellfish I suppose), nearly hitting two Rock Doves one time and bombing a >group of Ring-billed Gulls the next. The gulls were rather less adventurous >with the ball today, a 1w Great Black-backed hogging the ball but only >being able to think of rolling it repeatedly down one side of the dike. > >Clive Harris Cabin John, Md > >--- ======================================================================= > > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to > >listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: >signoff > mdosprey > >======================================================================= > > > >__________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! >Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com > >======================================================================= To >leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with >the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey >======================================================================= _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================