Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 23:40:56 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Marian Dodson Subject: Raptor Rapture MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit One of my favorite Atlas subjects this year was the neighborhood resident Red-Shoulder Hawk. She's lived here for the past 4 - 5 years and has gotten rather comfortable hunting my feeders. Luckily, she seems to favor the mucho numerous Mourning Doves. She seemed to mate up late this year and I made a determined effort to find the nest. finally locating it -up high, tucked away in an old pine, visible from only one angle. It seemed only a few weeks ago, I found her and "junior" in my Dogwood as she showed him her private smorgasboard. This evening, I found the youngster perched on top of one of the feeders. Seemed he learned his lesson well. He gave me a nice, long look before noise from a neighbors yard finally got his attention. Then later in the evening, a Great Horned Owl was softly hooting out back, I wonder if he was one that had nested next door until construction there last year made them move elsewhere. I hope, now that they are done building, that he moves back in. But I guess I better tell my new neighbors to keep an eye on that Jack Russell puppy.................. Marian Dodson Glen Burnie, MD MJD405@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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================