They're back! With the snow melt and warm temperatures, I've only had a small numbers of my regular birds. I've also continued to have a few Redpolls. Today, I had a large flock of maybe 30. The mixed flock of birds would scare every little while, but a few of the Redpolls would keep feeding while the others spooked. I wonder if they might be the ones that have been here daily. There's no way to tell, however.
Another behavior I would like to mention is that of my local juvenile Cooper's Hawk. It had been here two days in a row. The first time it came, it just sat in the weeping pine out front and watched for birds. Not so the next day. That day it landed at the top of the pine, but it kept hopping from branch to branch through out the tree looking for a hidden bird. It was very cool to watch it actively hunting. It went from there to a nearby beech tree and soon left. It didn't catch anything. Carol Keeler Sent from my iPad -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
