Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 09:26:26 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "George M. Jett" Subject: Re: American Tree Sparrow in Waldorf MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Les Thanks for the tidbit. George ----- Original Message ----- From: "Les Roslund" To: Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 10:02 PM Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] American Tree Sparrow in Waldorf > George - your meat-eating Mockingbird story reminded me of an experience > in the Galapagos Islands in 1998, where I took a photograph of a Hood Island > Mockingbird (Nesomimus mcdonaldi) attacking the red dot on another tourist's > movie camera. That bird, a well-known tame and aggressive meat eater, > appeared to expect the red dot was a scab covering a tasty meat meal. We had > been warned that they would attack any sores or scabs on exposed skin. > Later I learned that the Hood Mockingbird feeds heavily on turtle hatchlings > and sea lion placenta, as well as on any insects it can find. Life on those > dry islands can be pretty tough. > > Les Roslund > lroslund@bluecrab > Easton, 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================