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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00D4_01C954BB.83AF96B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sunday, November 30, 2008 A MERLIN IN THE HAND... Gina and I were out this afternoon (Sunday) for a walk in the Hampton = park where we go to feed the Chickadees. People have been doing this = long enough that the birds congregate in trees and come immediately to = your hand for=20 sunflower seed. There were five or six Chickadees doing this and one = Blue Jay higher up in a tree presumably waiting for us to leave so it = could pick up any seed that had been spilled. The Blue Jays never eat = from your hand. A=20 Chickadee had just left and I was looking to my left when I felt a much = heavier bird land on my hand from the right. "The Blue Jay," I thought. = But no - as I turned my head to look, the bird flew, scattering = sunflower seeds,=20 and I saw the back and tail of a Merlin. I presume it had made an = attempt at the Chickadee; arrived a split second too late, landed = anyway, realized its mistake, and moved on. It's interesting that it has = learned that people pausing in the park and holding out their hands = filled with seed sometimes add up to good hunting. Harvey McLeod Hampton, NB Source: Nature NB ------=_NextPart_000_00D4_01C954BB.83AF96B0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" 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=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16735" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY=20 style=3D"WORD-WRAP: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space"=20 bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial><FONT face=3D"Times New Roman">Sunday, November = 30,=20 2008<BR><BR>A MERLIN IN THE HAND...<BR><BR>Gina and I were out this = afternoon=20 (Sunday) for a walk in the Hampton park where we go to feed the = Chickadees.=20 People have been doing this long enough that the birds congregate in = trees and=20 come immediately to your hand for <BR>sunflower seed. There were five or = six=20 Chickadees doing this and one Blue Jay higher up in a tree presumably = waiting=20 for us to leave so it could pick up any seed that had been spilled. The = Blue=20 Jays never eat from your hand. A <BR>Chickadee had just left and I was = looking=20 to my left when I felt a much heavier bird land on my hand from the = right. "The=20 Blue Jay," I thought. But no - as I turned my head to look, the bird = flew,=20 scattering sunflower seeds, <BR>and I saw the back and tail of a Merlin. = I=20 presume it had made an attempt at the Chickadee; arrived a split second = too=20 late, landed anyway, realized its mistake, and moved on. It's = interesting that=20 it has learned that people pausing in the park and holding out their = hands=20 filled with seed sometimes add up to good hunting.<BR><BR>Harvey=20 McLeod<BR>Hampton, NB</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV>Source: Nature NB</DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_00D4_01C954BB.83AF96B0--
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