[wisb] Airport birds

From: "Daryl & Sherry Christensen" <gr8fish@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Wisbird" <wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 10:17:45 -0500
Once again, I had the fun of feeding house sparrows inside Concourse B at the 
Detroit airport yesterday. Last year there was only a pair, but now there are 8 
individuals. They drink from the water coolers (bubblers for you Wisconsinites) 
and beg from the passengers waiting to board their flights. There is a tape of 
what sounds like a peregrine that plays every 15 minutes and it is very loud. 
The birds completely ignore it. A flight attendant told me it was installed to 
scare the sparrows away (like where would the go?) but it seems to have no 
affect on them. She was very concerned that she would get pooped on and wanted 
to know what the two kinds of birds were (male and female house sparrows) and 
that if the airport was going to allow birds inside, why didn't they put some 
"pretty ones" to feed instead of such drab-looking birds.
All of the ladies were feeding them as well and the men were rolling their eyes 
and shaking their heads. 
By the way, it is spring in Philadelphia. Lots of snow geese migrating, robins 
singing, grass greening and NO SNOW!
Saw a pile of birds in Dane and Columbia County on the way home, along with a 
few brave bluebirds, robins and blackbirds in snow-entombed Marquette County. 
Oh well, it appears that spring is only a few days away...........it just 
doesn't look like it!
-Daryl Christensen
Glad to be back in Wisconsin in spite of the blanket of snow.
Marquette County

Daryl and/or Sherry Christensen 
www.darylchristensen.com 
www.marquettecountyguide.com

"There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of birds. There is 
something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance 
that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter."
-Rachel Carson                                                                  
                                                                                
                                                                    
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