Curious how someone managed to slip in while no one was looking,
capture this bird and put a band on it. I had an uncle who use
to make the same claims about short gray guys with big black
eyes...

Somebodies living in denial.

osprey at nwinfo.net wrote:
>
> Please forgive me for going out on a limb like this but it does not take too
> much imagination to figure out that Bud Anderson had something to do with
> banding the Eurasian Kestrel. Not that I object or think there is anything
> wrong with that, mind you. It would be nice to see an account of the close
> examination of this bird from the banders - how it was caught, length,
> weight and how those compare with American Kestrels and Merlins, the
> condition of the legs and feet, etc.
>
> Denny
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> * Denny Granstrand *
> * Yakima, WA *
> * osprey at nwinfo.net *
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