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.

Jan 19 2011 - watch out little birdies...

A quick visit this morning with a couple of interesting raptor sightings.
A Merlin dashed through, over the new soccer field and away over Cardinal Bridge.
As I was preparing to leave I spotted a Coopers Hawk in the oft-used tree above the crossroads. I drove back to the crossroads and subsequently watched the bird fly down to a large bush in front of one of the houses. The bush moved s little and after a few seconds the Coopers appeared to be pursuing something on foot as it ran around the base of the bush before flying off, maybe following a bird that had decided to chance outfliyng the hawk.