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Mary and I saw our first kingfishers of the year today at the Black Dog = marsh. A male and female fishing together and cackling (not cackling but = the sound is hard to explain) a lot. Also I felt bad for a female hooded = merganser. The moving white cloud first caught my eye. 18 male hooded = mergansers had surrounded a single female. They all had the crests fully = extended and had completely encircled her. She looked stressed and was = trying to get away. It was not a pretty site. I have watched single = males go from female to female displaying and finally finding one who = seems interested. That's very enjoyable to me. But today it looked down = right threatening. I felt like wading in and saying all right guys lets = break it up! Also there was a Gadwall there. Two mallard were sitting = side by side bobbing their heads up and down together. Geese also seem = to be pairing up. It's a great time for birding!! --- http://USFamily.Net/dialup.html - $8.25/mo! -- http://www.usfamily.net/dsl.html - $19.99/mo! --- ------=_NextPart_000_007A_01C76B14.B218DBC0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16414" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Mary and I saw our first kingfishers of = the year=20 today at the Black Dog marsh. A male and female fishing together and = cackling=20 (not cackling but the sound is hard to explain) a lot. Also I felt = bad for=20 a female hooded merganser. The moving white cloud first caught my eye. = 18 male=20 hooded mergansers had surrounded a single female. They all had the = crests fully=20 extended and had completely encircled her. She looked stressed and = was=20 trying to get away. It was not a pretty site. I have watched single = males go=20 from female to female displaying and finally finding one who seems = interested.=20 That's very enjoyable to me. But today it looked down right threatening. = I felt=20 like wading in and saying all right guys lets break it up! Also there = was a=20 Gadwall there. Two mallard were sitting side by side bobbing their heads = up and=20 down together. Geese also seem to be pairing up. It's a great time for=20 birding!!</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> <html> <p><center> <font size=3D"3"><br> --- <a href=3D"http://www.usfamily.net/dialup.html">USFamily.Net</a> - <b>$8.25/mo!</b> -- <a href=3D"http://www.usfamily.net/dsl.html">Highspeed</a> - <b>$19.99/mo!</b> ---<br> </font> </center></p> </html> ------=_NextPart_000_007A_01C76B14.B218DBC0--