For the past two weeks, I've gone to the pheasant pens on Game Farm and Stevenson Roads between 16:00-17:00 to look at the assemblages of Red-tailed Hawks. There have been between 15-58 RTHA lining the fences, pole sitting, and sitting in a large tree next to the pens. Their numbers seem to vary with the snow and visibility. At 16:30 today, I counted 51 RTHA, including 19 sitting together in the tree. There is usually lots of intraspecies action, and some interspecies interactions, between the large concentration of crows, pheasants, and hawks. I saw three fights between hawks today over unidentifiable entrails and numerous skirmishes between crows, and a hawk vs. several crows over a meals.
The flocks of European Starlings in the area have been building in number over the last two weeks. Today, a flock of at least 350 starlings were there today, fence sitting, wheeling around the pens, and eating the pheasant feed. They do not interact with the other birds inside or out of the pens. Besides the hundred or so crows that feed inside the pheasant pens, there are an enormous number of crows (at least a thousand) that gather daily in the fields along Stevenson Rd., Game Farm Rd., and Ellis Hollow Road (towards East Hill Plaza) after 16:00. I have not been able to stay later than 17:30 and do not know where they are roosting. *Does anyone know*? Candace Cornell -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
