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Re: Sharp-shinned Hawks Breeding In MD?

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Patricia Valdata

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Patricia Valdata

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Fri, 24 Feb 2006 19:41:34 -0500

Hello, Steve. Thank you for the very mative message. I live
north of Elkton, which is way east of any of the sites you mentioned.
There are no natural conifer groves in the immediate neighborhood,
although some neighbors use conifers to show their property lines.
(I live on a cul-de-sac in woods on the edge of what had been a farm field.)
I haven't seen another Sharpie, just the juvenile that has been harassing
my feeder birds. By its eye color, I don't think it's mature enough to consider
nesting, but I will certainly listen any time I am up before dawn
(which is a very rare event) just in case.

I have gotten spectacular views of this bird, because when it misses
it tends to perch on a branch just outside my window, and once it stood
on the burlap around our azalea, looking into the shrub for lunch. You
are right about how quickly it disappears when it flies. It has amazing speed
in a glide.


--Pat

Pat Valdata, Elkton, MD | 
"The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards
and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods.
More than any other thing that pertains to the body
it partakes of the nature of the divine." --Plato