Subject: [BIRDCHAT] BHOSP foraging behaviour (fwd)
Date: Jun 15 11:19:18 2001
From: ian paulsen - ipaulsen at linknet.kitsap.lib.wa.us


HI ALL:
Diann thought some in tweetersland might be interested in this tasty
tidbit!

Ian "Birdbooker" Paulsen
Bainbridge Is., WA, USA
ipaulsen at linknet.kitsap.lib.wa.us
"Rallidae all the way"

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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 09:34:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: ian paulsen <ipaulsen at linknet.kitsap.lib.wa.us>
To: Diann MacRae <tvulture at halcyon.com>
Subject: Re: [BIRDCHAT] BHOSP foraging behaviour (fwd)

HI Diann:
I thought you might be interested in this!

Ian "Birdbooker" Paulsen
Bainbridge Is., WA, USA
ipaulsen at linknet.kitsap.lib.wa.us
"Rallidae all the way"

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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 09:51:50 EDT
From: Laura Erickson <LauraErick at AOL.COM>
To: BIRDCHAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
Subject: Re: [BIRDCHAT] BHOSP foraging behaviour

One of my friends, a wildlife photographer, once found where a nearby county
of Minnesota piles up its road-killed deer carcasses over the winter. He
didn't have any good Turkey Vulture photos, so decided in the spring to set
up his blind in this unsavory spot in hopes of some great feeding shots. But
instead of TVs, he got a wide assortment of chickadees, warblers, and other
songbirds and a shorebird or two, all feeding on the maggots.When I took an
ecology course in college, our very first lecture was about the food chain,
and how it ended with scavengers, though in this instance I learned that the
food chain really circles around and around. I did note that in this case,
the buck really did stop here.

Laura Erickson
Journey North science writer
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/current.html
Duluth, MN
lauraerick at aol.com
www.forbirds.com

"There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds...
There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature--the
assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.
--Rachel Carson

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