Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 06:12:31 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Gail Frantz Subject: Re: How did this happen? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In a message dated 6/21/2003 7:00:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, marcusjames2@YAHOO.COM writes: > American Robin hanging from a branch, one leg caught Several years ago a juvenile Balto Oriole who had been foraging on the ground of our perfectly weeded (NOT) backyard, became entangled with a tendril from some vine or other. The tendril had wrapped itself 'round one leg and the bird was quite helpless. Fortunately, the bird was easy to reach and the vine easy to unwrap. She/he rested in my hand without a sound. Suddenly, with a great deal of angry chattering, it took off & flew to a nearby cherry tree. After sitting there quietly for 2-3 minutes that lovely flash of orange flew away. During nesting season one year I witnessed a female Balto Oriole, pulling hard as she could, to release (unsucessfully) an attached 20foot long string. For those of us who put out nesting materiel, I've often read admonitions that warn against putting out any thread, yarn, string longer than 6" because of the danger of the bird becoming entangled. The warnings have made me so fearful that I stick to 4"-5". Gail Frantz Old Hanover Rd Reisterstown, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================