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<a href="../200704/5945.html">previous This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0233_01C7833E.B8E00A90 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Years ago, the kestrel was "Sparrow Hawk". I believe anything is = possible for any bird or animal.=20 ----- Original Message -----=20 From: bev wigney=20 To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca=20 Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 10:44 AM Subject: Re: [NatureNS] Kestrel and other birds Just to comment on Kestrel hunting small birds. I'm not sure it's that = unusual. A few years ago, I came to the rescue a Kestrel that had = become trapped in the glassed-in portico of a large grocery store. = Apparently, it had been chasing the sparrows that continuously = congregate in a large outdoor roofed area where the shopping carts are = parked outside the grocery store entrance. Unfortunately, it hit a = window and became disoriented and fell into the shopping carts. When I = happened along, someone was just approaching the cart to take a look. = The bird took fright and flew off, but went right into the glassed-in = portico, struck the glass wall and fell to the floor. I captured and = carried the bird out to a grassy area across the parking lot and set it = down to recover for awhile. About ten minutes later, it took off and = flew right back over to perch on a small tree right beside to the store = entrance. Employees in the store said the bird was regularly seen = hunting for sparrows in the area above the shopping carts, but that was = the first time anyone had seen it crash into a window. Btw, there's now = a plastic scare-owl guarding the same area and it doesn't seem to do = much to deter the sparrows. =20 bev (osgoode, ontario) On 20-Apr-07, at 9:10 AM, Dorothy wrote: Firstly, sorry for the second message, I didn=92t think my earlier one = had gone through. As for the Kestrel, it was seen by two people and it sat on the lawn = within 20 feet of the house as well as coming within about 5 feet the = first time as he almost ran into the window as he left with the Junco. = It may very well have been hungry as the first time he came it was after = the last snow storm and then again three days later. Happy Birding Dorothy =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Bev Wigney Email: bev@magickcanoe.com Burning Silo blog: http://magickcanoe.com/blog Online Photo Gallery: http://www.pbase.com/crocodile Magick Canoe website: http://magickcanoe.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------= ------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.5.5/769 - Release Date: 4/19/2007 = 5:56 PM ------=_NextPart_000_0233_01C7833E.B8E00A90 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Dwindows-1252"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16414" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY=20 style=3D"WORD-WRAP: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; = -khtml-line-break: after-white-space"=20 bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>Years ago, the kestrel was "Sparrow Hawk". = I believe=20 anything is possible for any bird or animal. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV style=3D"FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----=20 <DIV style=3D"BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A=20 title=3Dbev@magickcanoe.com href=3D"mailto:bev@magickcanoe.com">bev = wigney</A>=20 </DIV> <DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=3Dnaturens@chebucto.ns.ca=20 href=3D"mailto:naturens@chebucto.ns.ca">naturens@chebucto.ns.ca</A> = </DIV> <DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, April 20, 2007 10:44 AM</DIV> <DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NatureNS] Kestrel and other birds</DIV></DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>Just to comment on Kestrel hunting small birds. I'm = not=20 sure it's that unusual. A few years ago, I came to the rescue a = Kestrel=20 that had become trapped in the glassed-in portico of a large grocery=20 store. Apparently, it had been chasing the sparrows that = continuously=20 congregate in a large outdoor roofed area where the shopping carts are = parked=20 outside the grocery store entrance. Unfortunately, it hit a window = and=20 became disoriented and fell into the shopping carts. When I = happened=20 along, someone was just approaching the cart to take a look. The = bird took=20 fright and flew off, but went right into the glassed-in portico, struck = the=20 glass wall and fell to the floor. I captured and carried the bird = out to a=20 grassy area across the parking lot and set it down to recover for = awhile. =20 About ten minutes later, it took off and flew right back over to perch = on a=20 small tree right beside to the store entrance. Employees in the = store said=20 the bird was regularly seen hunting for sparrows in the area above the = shopping=20 carts, but that was the first time anyone had seen it crash into a=20 window. Btw, there's now a plastic scare-owl guarding the = same area=20 and it doesn't seem to do much to deter the sparrows. <DIV><BR class=3Dkhtml-block-placeholder></DIV> <DIV>bev</DIV> <DIV>(osgoode, ontario) <DIV><BR> <DIV> <DIV>On 20-Apr-07, at 9:10 AM, Dorothy wrote:</DIV><BR=20 class=3DApple-interchange-newline> <BLOCKQUOTE type=3D"cite"><SPAN class=3DApple-style-span=20 style=3D"WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Trebuchet MS; TEXT-TRANSFORM: = none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; = LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; border-spacing: 0px = 0px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -apple-text-size-adjust: = auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2"> <DIV class=3DSection1> <P class=3DMsoNormal><FONT face=3DArial color=3Dnavy size=3D2><SPAN=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128); FONT-FAMILY: = Arial"><O:P=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128); FONT-FAMILY: = Arial"><SPAN=20 class=3DApple-style-span=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128); FONT-FAMILY: = Arial"></SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal><FONT face=3DArial color=3Dnavy size=3D2><SPAN=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128); FONT-FAMILY: = Arial"><O:P=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128); FONT-FAMILY: = Arial"><SPAN=20 class=3DApple-style-span=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128); FONT-FAMILY: = Arial"></SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman" color=3Dnavy = size=3D3><SPAN=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 16px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128); FONT-FAMILY: Times New = Roman"><SPAN=20 class=3DApple-style-span=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 16px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128); FONT-FAMILY: Times New = Roman">Firstly,=20 sorry for the second message, I didn=92t think my earlier one had gone = through.</SPAN><O:P=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 16px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128); FONT-FAMILY: Times New = Roman"></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal><FONT face=3DArial color=3Dnavy size=3D2><SPAN=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128); FONT-FAMILY: = Arial"><O:P=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128); FONT-FAMILY: = Arial"><SPAN=20 class=3DApple-style-span=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128); FONT-FAMILY: = Arial"></SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal><FONT face=3DArial color=3Dnavy size=3D2><SPAN=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128); FONT-FAMILY: = Arial"><SPAN=20 class=3DApple-style-span=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128); FONT-FAMILY: Arial">As = for the=20 Kestrel, it was seen by two people and it sat on the lawn within 20 = feet of=20 the house as well as coming within about 5 feet the first time as he = almost=20 ran into the window as he left with the Junco. It may very well = have=20 been hungry as the first time he came it was after the last snow storm = and=20 then again three days later.</SPAN><O:P=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128); FONT-FAMILY: = Arial"></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal><FONT face=3DArial color=3Dnavy size=3D2><SPAN=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128); FONT-FAMILY: = Arial"><O:P=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128); FONT-FAMILY: = Arial"><SPAN=20 class=3DApple-style-span=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128); FONT-FAMILY: = Arial"></SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal><FONT face=3DArial color=3Dnavy size=3D2><SPAN=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128); FONT-FAMILY: = Arial"><SPAN=20 class=3DApple-style-span=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128); FONT-FAMILY: = Arial">Happy=20 Birding</SPAN><O:P=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128); FONT-FAMILY: = Arial"></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=3DMsoNormal><FONT face=3DArial color=3Dnavy size=3D2><SPAN=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128); FONT-FAMILY: = Arial"><SPAN=20 class=3DApple-style-span=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128); FONT-FAMILY: = Arial">Dorothy</SPAN><O:P=20 style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 13px; COLOR: rgb(0,0,128); FONT-FAMILY: = Arial"></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P></DIV><BR=20 class=3DApple-interchange-newline></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR> <DIV><SPAN class=3DApple-style-span=20 style=3D"WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Trebuchet MS; TEXT-TRANSFORM: = none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; = LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; border-spacing: 0px = 0px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -apple-text-size-adjust: = auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2"><SPAN=20 class=3DApple-style-span=20 style=3D"WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Trebuchet MS; TEXT-TRANSFORM: = none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; = LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; border-spacing: 0px = 0px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -apple-text-size-adjust: = auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2"><SPAN=20 class=3DApple-style-span=20 style=3D"WORD-SPACING: 0px; FONT: 12px Trebuchet MS; TEXT-TRANSFORM: = none; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); TEXT-INDENT: 0px; WHITE-SPACE: normal; = LETTER-SPACING: normal; BORDER-COLLAPSE: separate; border-spacing: 0px = 0px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -apple-text-size-adjust: = auto; orphans: 2; widows: 2"> <DIV>=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D= =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D</DIV> <DIV>Bev Wigney</DIV> <DIV>Email: <A=20 href=3D"mailto:bev@magickcanoe.com">bev@magickcanoe.com</A></DIV> <DIV>Burning Silo blog: <A=20 href=3D"http://magickcanoe.com/blog">http://magickcanoe.com/blog</A></DIV= > <DIV>Online<SPAN class=3DApple-converted-space> </SPAN>Photo = Gallery: =20 <A=20 href=3D"http://www.pbase.com/crocodile">http://www.pbase.com/crocodile</A= ></DIV> <DIV>Magick Canoe website: <A=20 href=3D"http://magickcanoe.com">http://magickcanoe.com</A></DIV> <DIV><BR class=3Dkhtml-block-placeholder></DIV><BR=20 class=3DApple-interchange-newline></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><BR></DIV></= DIV> <P> <HR> <P></P>No virus found in this incoming message.<BR>Checked by AVG Free=20 Edition.<BR>Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.5.5/769 - Release = Date:=20 4/19/2007 5:56 PM<BR></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0233_01C7833E.B8E00A90--
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