Good grief! Is there just too much inter-cultural exchange going on between the avian and human communities? (sounds as though the birds are picking up some behavior patterns more common among our own);-) Linda
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 11:07 PM, Robert P Russell<[email protected]> wrote: > Armed with new techniques from my Pete Dunne How to pish book and CD picked > up in a used bookstore, I headed to Aitkin County this weekend to bust some > atlas blocks and enjoy the comfortable weather. The birds had other ideas. > First warbler stop I heard an apparent Nashville, pished and out of the > forest came the Nashville, hovered once by the car window and flew into the > car, and proceeded to peck at the windshield until getting tossed out of the > car and back into the woods. Next day I flushed an Osprey from a jackpine > on the highest bluff above Big Sandy lake. The Osprey didn't appreciate > getting awakened early on Sunday and let me know it with a series of loud > calls and flew out over the lake. End of story, well not quite. He turned > and headed right at me as I stood in the open on the bluff. Seeing a 12 > inch tern dive bombing you is perturbing but expected. Seeing a non-nesting > 5.6 foot wingspread Osprey coming at you screaming at eye-level does not > jive with any literature I know and really wakes you up quickly. I waved my > hands which seems to work on black bears but he keeps coming, turning away > only after getting within 15 feet and having me wonder what he'd have done > with a nest nearby. Today I'm looking over the Mississippi River from a > downtown St. Paul condo when a large skinny gray-colored swanlike bird > floats down the middle of the river. After watching it for 100 yards and > mulling over what state record species I have lucked into, the bird flaps > and rises directly out of the water and it's a Great Blue Heron! He flies > back to Harriet Island and soon flies out to the center of the river, lands > and swims some more. Maybe he's a visitor from one of the Wisconsin Dells > waterparks but this bird seemed to actually enjoy swimming and wasn't > attempting to feed or anything other than riding the current. Strange > times. Bob Russell > > ---- > Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net > Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html > ---- Join or Leave mou-net:http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives:http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
