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["Mary Davis" <madanthony3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Al & Linda.  Didn't realize it was the males doing the wounded thing.
Are you sure they're okay with hundreds of people all at once though?  He
was squawking a lot.
-Mary

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al & Linda Warfield" <warfield101@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, May 07, 2005 10:47 AM
Subject: [va-richmond-general] Re: killdeer at Lewis Ginter


> Mary,
>
> The people at Ginter already know about the nest. It's been there this
time
> of year for at least the last two years, and there may be more this year
> than last. We were there about a week ago and saw it then. The birds don't
> really mind people - they are used to them. The supervisor said he worked
> right next to it and they didn't even flinch. We got within a few feet and
> took pictures - non flash of course. The males do that limping wounded
stuff
> but the females on the nests just stay there.
>
> Al & Linda Warfield
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mary Davis" <madanthony3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <va-richmond-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, May 06, 2005 11:08 PM
> Subject: [va-richmond-general] killdeer at Lewis Ginter
>
>
> Last night I attended the first Thurs. night concert of the season at
Lewis=
>  Ginter Botanical Gardens.  During the break, as people swarmed to the
rest=
> rooms in the library building, I noticed the cry of a killdeer at the back
=
> of the crowd.  Sure enough, she was there in the grass feigning her
injury.=
>   Some curious folks stopped to look and moved on.  It seems there was no
h=
> arm done, but I felt so bad for her in a panic for 3 hours as hundreds of
p=
> eople milled about near her nest.  If anyone is in contact with
administrat=
> ors/caretakers at the Gardens, maybe you could ask them to look for the
nes=
> t and perhaps rope off the area for the next concert.  The concerts now
tak=
> e place on the lawn between the conservatory and the path by the lake.
The=
>  killdeer was near the flower beds that are not yet filled on the far
right=
>  as you would walk up the path from the visitor center to the
conservatory.=
>   There are double flowering tulips in that bed if that helps them at all,
=
> but the nest could be anywhere in the beds around that grassy area.
>
> Thanks,
> Mary Davis
>
>
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