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Re: Ah, Hormones!



It appears the the South Carolina isn't the only place have breeding
behavior going on.  Come a few thousand miles north to Nova Scotia and
you'll find some pretty hormone crazed Rock Doves, Black Ducks, Mallards and
even Great black-backed Gulls.  Not to mention the goldfinches, Pine
Siskins, Song Sparrows and even White-Throated Sparrows Singing!!   Usually
by this time of year we are near 0 F and the past few weeks and even almost
alll of December we have only been below freezing maybe 15 out of the past
40 days.  Now that's a sign of Global Warming!!

bye for now

Tony Bezanson
Halifax, Nova Scotia
bezanson@ns.sympatico.ca



-----Original Message-----
From: BILL HILTON JR <bhilton@InfoAve.Net>
To: CAROLINA BIRDS <carolinabirds@duke.edu>; birdchat@listserv.arizona.edu
<birdchat@listserv.arizona.edu>
Date: January 14, 2000 11:03 PM
Subject: 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
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>"Never trust a person too lazy to get up for sunrise or too busy to
>watch the sunset."
>
> BHjr.
>
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