I heard a thump on a window a few minutes ago. This is unusual here--my feeders are very close to the windows, and I haven't witnessed a "feeder crash" since I put them there. I walked up to the inside of the window and saw a Northern Shrike on the ground eating a male House Finch. After the finch was definitely dead, the shrike flew off with the bird. I realize now that I probably saw this same shrike chasing a robin the other day, but I couldn't tell for sure what the predator was.
Dave Benson Duluth (5th Street and 16th Ave E) ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html
