From: Ad 

Frank Haber wrote:
> As you've no doubt read, raptors are positively blossoming in
> Manhattan.  It was a BIG deal in 1986 when we had a small kestrel on our
> shower curtain*. All our friends A-listed us to hear the story.  Cornell
> was interested.
>
> Now we see a peregrine or similar on someone's windowsill a couple of
> times a year.  If you haven't stared at a peregrine four feet away
> through window glass, it's quite thrilling.  They're BIG.  They have
> that eye.
>
> *What does one do with a kestrel on one's shower curtain?  Well, I
> winged it (ouch).  I put on the heaviest gloves I had and folded the
> guy's wings to his body, one at a time.  He was frozen - totally glazed
> over.
>
> Then I picked him up, folded and streamlined, and threw him out the
> window (fifteenth floor).  Hell, he looked healthy.  He was.  He flew,
> away like a shot.
>
> Cornell told me I done good.  The wife uh,  differed.
>
> --"you brute," still married.

I'll have to take some pickies of my owls in their boxes. OK so they're
wild owls...but I put up a load of owl boxes in a some of our old barns
& mostly ruined field shelters some years ago & every year at least 3 or
4 pairs.

We've had to put string round our bird feeder as our somewhat rare birds
were being used as a buffet by both the sparrowhawks & the goshawks
& they really used to like the 2 species of woodpecker which
visit....& so do I...



Adam

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