>> The Ohio birding community as a wholesome unit stands against >> feeding/baiting raptors As this is detrimental to their health and >> safety and is against the ABA code of ethics. Period. > Oh, and death by starvation is not detrimental to it's health. If someone feeds an owl a few mice and the owl subsequently makes it through the winter that it would not have survived I say, More power to them." We should ask the owl which he or she prefers. Eric ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]