Carol's email reminded me of two other incidences that I observed sometimes ago.
1. A few years ago, I was on Salmon Creek road and two pairs of catbirds were confronting each other with lots of meowing at each other. Their hairs were raised (meaning their crests were erected, eyebrows raised). They had conversation quote sometime and here I was feeling like laughing at them, they reminded me of wars in Bombay apartments where two families have things to say each others over variety of disputes. I wish then I had my recorder and camera. After some enough of name naming, one party decided they had had enough and backed out of the fight and went away to other side of the road. I thinks theirs was a border dispute! 2. A couple of years ago, at the Sapsucker woods, just below my office window there was a gang war going on among the Canada Geese. I heard lot of honking, so I looked down to find one goose was being surrounded by several others and everyone was saying something to that one poor goose. All geese were putting their head down when honking. Either they were hazing the poor guy or it was disciplining him for stepping outside his line. It was a serious fight. I did not watch the whole episode, but I could hear them going on for long time, I don't know what happened in the end. Meena Haribal Ithaca NY -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
