When I got the camera up, the Gyrfalcon had just finished a pass at the owl and
was turning to go again. It made another pass and then perched on the pole for
a few minutes before heading to Lott Farm.
With the number of birders looking for the Gyrfalcon without much luck, I
wonder if it was
...and the answer is: after just half an hour, a bunch of Mourning Doves are
already walking around on the kill-site, and smaller feeder birds are grabbing
sunflower seeds from the feeder and flitting to the adjacent spruce to shell
them.
-Geo
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> On Jan 8, 2017, at 1:03
There is a nice mixed flock of Horned Larks, Snow Buntings and Lapland
Longspurs on Holden Rd. in Lansing next to the grey house with the red metal
roof. They're feeding in the grassy field by the drainage ditch around the
house.
US-NY-Lansing-52-74 Holden Rd - 42.5983x-76.5227
Gary
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Looking out the window just now in response to scream calls out in the yard, I
was treated to the stirring sight of a Cooper's Hawk on the ground, wings and
tail spread to make a sort of cage, and with a bird in its talons. The
screaming lasted less than a minute, and then the immature Coop was
