Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 18:50:24 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Steve Huy Subject: Re: Blessed silence - Hughes Hollow MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 10/19/02 18:08:53 Eastern Daylight Time, don.simonson@COMCAST.NET writes: > Satuirday 10/19 What a great morning at Hughes Hollow. not a stinking > gunshot was heard. consequently, I observed a female Norhtern Harrier at > very close range or maybe you just suffer from poor observation skills most days. > 30 minutes at 60x, cant get better than that. I > cannot believe she would have perched like that if it were a gunfire > day. And what would she have done? Flown about until exhausted all though hunting season? It couldn't be that it has been damp and cold and she was probably digesting a meal. Do you think it is unnatural for harriers to fly about? Ever think they are often on the move because they are hunting? Or do you think harriers wouldn't do such a terrible thing? Birders never scare hawks into flight, do they? Steve Huy Middletown, Md ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================