Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:34:20 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Speicher, James (NIH/NIAID)" Subject: Crow visit MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Elise Kreiss wrote: We had a couple of crows in the main feeder area, which is unusual. I've always imagined they don't like that closed in feel - the house, trees, bushes, a wood and a brush pile. One of them hung down from a tree, Nuthatch-like, and ate from the suet feeder... ********* I also had a rare visit from a pair of crows yesterday. They didn't drop into the 24" hole that i had excavated in the snow under the black-oil SF feeders (to accommodate the ground feeding birds), but they did poke around on the snow surface where some residual seeds were present. They made no attempt to feed from two suet feeders, however... Jim Speicher jspeicher@niaid.nih.gov Bethesda @work:( FRED Co @home:) ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================