I made a stop of the Game Farm this morning and ended up not counting crows or looking for rare gulls. Instead I spent an hour photographing a pair of BALD EAGLES. They were perched together in a large bare tree along the west side of Dodge Road, just south of Stevenson Rd. One appeared to be a full adult, the other still had a black mask and some dark in the tail, but looked adult from a distance.
While I was watching the younger bird dashed to the Game Farm and came right back with a large Norway rat in its talons. Then it sat and dismembered and ate the rat in the tree right next to the road as the other eagle, the crows, and I watched. Some photos at https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/IJF38ECio-P5fNuTnczDvtMTjNZETYmyPJy0liipFm0?feat=directlink. Kevin Kevin J. McGowan, Ph.D. Project Manager Distance Learning in Bird Biology Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 k...@cornell.edu<mailto:k...@cornell.edu> 607-254-2452 Do you know about our other distance-learning opportunities? Visit http://www.birds.cornell.edu/courses<http://cornell.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b35ddb671faf4a16c0ce32406&id=19023cad4e&e=d3c0712a98> and learn about our comprehensive Home Study Course in Bird Biology, our online course Investigating Behavior: Courtship and Rivalry in Birds<http://cornell.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b35ddb671faf4a16c0ce32406&id=d69183921c&e=d3c0712a98>, our Be A Better Birder tutorials<http://cornell.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=b35ddb671faf4a16c0ce32406&id=9969512772&e=d3c0712a98>, and our series of webinars<http://cornell.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b35ddb671faf4a16c0ce32406&id=946e880490&e=d3c0712a98>. Purchase the webinars here<http://cornell.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b35ddb671faf4a16c0ce32406&id=d5d44c79f0&e=d3c0712a98>. -- 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/ --
