From south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Fri May 16 17:46:29 2003 Received: from www.plaidworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4H0i7a3007423 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 16 May 2003 17:44:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc02.attbi.com (sccrmhc02.attbi.com [204.127.202.62]) by plaidworks.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4H0hSfF007375 for <[[email protected]]>; Fri, 16 May 2003 17:43:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from miata (12-234-62-156.client.attbi.com[12.234.62.156]) by attbi.com (sccrmhc02) with SMTP id <2003051700432800200c6997e>; Sat, 17 May 2003 00:43:28 +0000 Message-ID: <0d3d01c31c0b$818e23e0$[[email protected]]> From: "Matthew O'Brien" <[[email protected]]> To: <[[email protected]]> Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 17:30:23 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.2+ Subject: [SBB] Northern Harrier behaviour X-BeenThere: [[email protected]] X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2+ Precedence: list List-Id: South Bay Birding List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Errors-To: south-bay-birds-bounces+south-bay-birds-archive=[[email protected]] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by plaidworks.com id h4H0i7a3007423 Once again taking the 9-mile trail around the Alviso salt ponds this morning, I flushed a male NORTHERN HARRIER from the marsh between pond A12 and the Alviso slough. The harrier rose from the marsh about fifty feet from me, and flew quickly away and upwards at an angle of about 20 degrees carrying what appeared to be a gopher in his talons. He continued quickly across the slough to the the western bank, where a female Northern Harrier arose from the ground and flew quickly upwards towards him. As she neared, the male tilted up slightly and released the gopher -- which the female snatched in midair. As soon as he had released the gopher, the male harrier turned quickly and dove from a fair distance and height directly towards me. He came in quickly about ten feet over my head, wheeling about to make another pass. He continued to harrass me as I walked forward for about three minutes. Finally he settled on a bush to the west and watched as I hiked out of sight. Corresponding with the male's agressive behaviour, I failed to watch the female with the gopher and did not see where she went after the midair exchange. _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. south-bay-birds mailing list ([[email protected]]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://www.plaidworks.com/mailman/options/south-bay-birds/south-bay-birds-archive%40plaidworks.com This email sent to [[email protected]]