Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 19:02:20 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Chris Starling Subject: Re: Blessed silence - Hughes Hollow MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Easy greasy........ I hear what you getting at, but i think facetious remarks like that are not healthy (as a whole) for what this board is all about. anyone else agree? -----Original Message----- From: Steve Huy [mailto:Gabboon@AOL.COM] Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 6:50 PM To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Blessed silence - Hughes Hollow 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 ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================