Went for a walk at the Fletcher Wildlife Garden in Ottawa today. Not much going on at the feeder, but when we returned to the parking lot and were approaching our car, another arriving couple flushed a Merlin with its kill from under our rear bumper. The Merlin clumsily flew over to a clear area about 25 feet away and proceeded to rip apart its Mourning Dove lunch. It moved a few more times, but could barely get off the ground considering that its meal was as big as itself.
Quite the show. Lucky the other couple flushed it or we might have run it over when backing out of our spot... Fletcher Wildlife Garden is off of Prince of Wales Drive in the middle of Ottawa. Search for "45.386776,-75.704577" on Google maps. Marc _________________________________ my terrible but slowly improving bird photos: http://picasaweb.google.com/stongey _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to ONTBIRDS mailing list [email protected] For information about ONTBIRDS visit http://www.ofo.ca/
