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Ah, Hormones!



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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