Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2003 09:26:34 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Maryanne Dolan Subject: Re: Perry Point 01/06/03 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "I quickly turned to chase it on my skis (not an easy thing to do in wet snow). I never did get a good look at it, though I chased it for nearly 45 minutes." I'm still chuckling at the mental picture - one ungainly human on skis chasing a graceful bird... any thought she/he might have been leading you on? thanks for the giggle. maryanne dolan ABTrowbridge@msn.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Starling" To: Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 6:59 PM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Perry Point 01/06/03 > Greetings and Happy New Year Everyone! > > I didnt do a lot of birding today at work but I did get out on the cross > country skis this afternoon. While skiing along a row of tall spruce trees > I chanced upon a half eaten C. Grackle (there were constant > grackle/blackbird flocks flying over head). The Grackel looked > fairly "fresh" so I pished at the trees and flushed a huge accipiter. > Initially I thought Cooper's, not thinking of Goshawk. A moment later > the 'goshawk flag' went up in my head and I quickly turned to chase it on > my skis (not an easy thing to do in wet snow). I never did get a good look > at it, though I chased it for nearly 45 minutes. Deciding that it was > probably the Cooper's that has been hanging around the VA Complex for the > last month or two I decided to let it get back to his/her dinner. Other > then that there was not too much to report on. The Eagles remain active and > appear to be taking up residence in the nest near the main gate (the nest > was vacant last winter). A large gaggle of Canada Geese and mixed Gull > flock are enjoying the snow covered fields at the Complex. Finally about 75 > Common Mergansers were seen near the Patience Fishing Pier in the AM. > > Good Birding, > Chris Starling > North East, 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================