Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 22:56:00 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Arlene Ripley Subject: Re: Picking his fights carefully In-Reply-To: <000a01c29ffb$5b410270$727221a2@DOWNSTAIRS> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Les, How interesting. It's seems apparent that there is a bond between birds that we don't fully appreciate or understand. In hindsight, I think it might have been better to leave the dead male on the deck for a day or two. Perhaps if she saw him there, she wouldn't have been searching at the windows. I forgot to mention that I have a photo of her clinging to my computer room window here: http://www.nestbox.com/photofeature2.htm Arlene Ripley Calvert County, MD aripley@nestbox.com http://www.nestbox.com At 10:22 PM 12/9/02, Les Roslund wrote: > Such a sad Sapsucker story. A similar pattern of 'searching for >the lost mate' was shown along my lane a couple of years ago. I came >across a Cooper's Hawk in the process of consuming a Yellow-billed >Cuckoo. The Hawk flew away as I approached, dropping the remnants of >its meal. For the next several days (three or more), two other >Yellow-billed Cuckoos hung around that spot of the driveway, often >calling and calling. I suspect they were mate and chick of the lost >bird. They were clearly searching for the lost bird at the site where >it had last been seen alive. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================