Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 16:37:39 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Elliot Kirschbaum Subject: Immature Heron Behavior Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit One of the Baltimore County Atlasers sent me the following query: > (3) Had an unusual sighting yesterday: immature yellow-crowned night heron > carrying a stick in his mouth for quite some time (5 minutes or so)--even > dipping it in the water! I'm not counting this as nest building, but do you > have any insight into why an immature would do this??? Any one else observe such behavior or have any comments about it? Elliot Kirschbaum Baltimore, MD USA mailto:ekirschb@bcpl.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================