Thanks for drawing my attention to the shrike. Lo and behold, I witnessed a predator/prey event in my yard this morning. First-ever sighting of a shrike, pulling his prey, a chickadee, out of the snow and flying off with it in his beak. I think there is a hawthorne tree in the scrub at our field's edge, so I am off to see if I can find the chickadee impaled.
On Monday, December 12, 2016 at 12:30:39 PM UTC-5, Garth McElroy wrote:
-- On Monday, December 12, 2016 at 12:30:39 PM UTC-5, Garth McElroy wrote:
I've been lucky this winter to have a fairly tame juvenile northern shrike visiting the yard. It has become quite partial to the meat scraps I leave out. I usually have at least one shrike show up every winter but never like this. Here's some links to a video and some images I've taken over the last couple weeks.Other regulars this winter in Anson have been frequents flocks of evening grosbeaks, bohemian waxwings and a small flock of common redpolls that passed through without stopping.-------------------------------------- Garth McElroyAnson, Maine
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