[SBB] Merlins???

["Kendric C. Smith" <[[email protected]]>]

Several Merlins have been reported in the last few days.
It is quite late for Merlins to still be around, but not impossible.

I would like to mention an experience of mine at Cape May some years ago.
The leader called out a Merlin, and then said OOOPS, its a Mourning Dove.
Then he said something like:  if you have never made the mistake of 
confusing a Mourning Dove with a Merlin then you are not being honest.

When a Mourning Dove banks on a soar it looks very much like a 
Merlin, unless you see its pointy tail.  In a nearby soar and corner 
of your eye looks, Doves appear about the same color and size, and 
have pointy wings like a Merlin.

-- 
Kendric C. Smith
927 Mears Court
Stanford, CA  94305-1041
(650) 493-7210
[[email protected]]
http://www.stanford.edu/~kendric/

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