Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 22:24:18 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Paul Woodward Subject: Re: Bizarre Red-tailed Hawk Behaviour MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This is typical sunbathing behavior which is fairly common this time of year. If you look around you can see many birds engaging in this type of behavior,. Although there is some debate about its purpose the most likely explanation is that it is a way of getting rid of feather mites. Paul Woodward Fairfax City, VA 22032 grackling@att.net Hi All, > > This evening around 6pm my family and I saw a > Red-tailed Hawk do the strangest thing I've ever seen > a bird do - lay down on a roof. It was on its belly, > on the peak of my neighbour's roof, with its wings > outstretched along the slope of the roof. (At least > the wing on our side of the house was outstretched. I > am assume the other one was, too.) The bird seemed > alert as it kept its head raised and was looked around > fairly actively. It was already in this position when > we noticed it, so I don't know how long it had been > doing this. Initially we thought the bird must be > injured, but about 5 minutes after we noticed it, it > stood up and started preening. After preening for > about 5-10 minutes it flew off> ____________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! > http://sbc.yahoo.com > > ======================================================================= > 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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================