Yesterday morning after dropping my daughter at school on King St, I drove down Nelson Rd in Danby and noticed a raptor sitting on a hay bale. I pulled over to look at it more closely and realized it was a male NORTHERN HARRIER. I watched it fly low, tilting and hovering against the strong west winds while it hunted over the fields. Later that day, while returning along the same road, I found a MERLIN hunting from the wires, swooping down and sending flocks of starlings aloft. I got a few pics of the two, and have uploaded them to the Cayuga Bird Club gallery, please click below if you'd like to see (the link brings you to the main gallery page, then you have to click on my album).
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