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Ah, Hormones!
- To: carolinabirds@duke.edu (CAROLINA BIRDS), birdchat@listserv.arizona.edu
- Subject: Ah, Hormones!
- From: BILL HILTON JR <bhilton@InfoAve.Net>
- Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 21:38:12 -0500
- Sender: carolinabirds-owner@acpub.duke.edu
HI . . .
This afternoon (14 January), as I sat at my computer and gazed out
across Hilton Pond near York, South Carolina, I noticed a largish
Red-shouldered Hawk perched in the sun on the dead branch of a giant
White Oak. A few seconds later, the bird was joined--and mounted--by
a smaller, undoubtedly male, Red-shouldered intent on passing on his
genes.
Interestingly, I could see two other hormonally driven bird species
on the pond at the same time: a pair of Wood Ducks displaying and
responding to each other, and a male and female Hooded Merganser
doing the same thing.
If this kind of activity in mid-January ain't an indicator of global
warming, what is? ;-)
Happy Birding!
BILL
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BILL HILTON JR.
"The Piedmont Naturalist"
Hilton Pond Center for Piedmont Natural History
1432 DeVinney Road
York, South Carolina 29745
USA
e-mail: <hilton@rubythroat.org>
Voice & Fax: (803) 684-5852
Operation RubyThroat Website: <http://www.rubythroat.org>
"Never trust a person too lazy to get up for sunrise or too busy to
watch the sunset."
BHjr.
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