During my banding years at Cape May, we loved Merlin time. The birds love
to have fun and play with any creature available. What you describe is
often seen. Our frustration was with the ones that seemed to know our
catch tactics and would tease to the point of getting caught and then slip
away with
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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Question about Merlin behavior (the falcon, not the
app)
On Saturday in the early evening, at the gate of the Grassroots festival
as crowds of people were streaming in, a Merlin started calling
continuously for many seconds - 10? 15? It came into view from the west
and was chas
On Saturday in the early evening, at the gate of the Grassroots festival
as crowds of people were streaming in, a Merlin started calling
continuously for many seconds - 10? 15? It came into view from the west
and was chasing a crow and diving at it. They were maybe 30' above the
tree tops and
