Jan 25 2011 Falconsville

The mostly overcast start gave a dramatic flaming sunrise and the dark and still relative cold may have resulted in the lateness of the last crows as they departed the roost area somewhere off to the north.


Relatively few Passerines today but (maybe because of) plenty of raptor activity. A Coopers flew over Cardinal bridge and both red-shouldered hawk and Merlin were perched near the confluence of the two streams. The latter bird much more crisply streaked on the breast than Saturday's smudgy bird.

Later a Peregrine flew over quite high but seemed to be on the look out for pigeon- breakfast.