The day started with a major backyard grackle convention. They scarfed down corn, peanuts, and black oil sunflower seeds, and descended on the birdbaths. No wonder the juncos and white-throats were scarce today!
At Lebanon Hills there were still many yellow-rumps, but just a couple of orange-crowns representing the warblers. Ruby-crown kinglets and white-throats were plentiful, and so were cedar waxwings. There was one lone phoebe on the lake north of the nature center. As usual, raptors provided the drama: a redtail hawk put on a long aerial display, circling repeatedly at low altitude for admirable looks at her distinctive plumage, and a startled Cooper's hawk aborted its hunt at the center's feeders when it noticed us standing nearby. Linda Whyte -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20071010/43bff0d5/attachment.html
