Feeding Wild Birds

[sourland]

There was a feeding frenzy here yesterday - usually indicates a coming storm, but all is/was calm. Two days ago I saw three Canada geese flying over the club. Suddenly they split up and rapidly flew in three different directions - then one of the immature eagles appeared - just cruising along.

 

[sourland]

I've mentioned the habituated male Cooper's hawk who winters at the beagle club. Today I found his partially eaten body in the middle of the clubhouse lawn. Looked like a raptor kill. Doubt that a redtail could catch him. Perhaps a GHO got him last night ?

 

[swampfox440]

I've mentioned the habituated male Cooper's hawk who winters at the beagle club. Today I found his partially eaten body in the middle of the clubhouse lawn. Looked like a raptor kill. Doubt that a redtail could catch him. Perhaps a GHO got him last night ?

I bet you called that one right @sourland.

 

[CapricornFarm]

I've mentioned the habituated male Cooper's hawk who winters at the beagle club. Today I found his partially eaten body in the middle of the clubhouse lawn. Looked like a raptor kill. Doubt that a redtail could catch him. Perhaps a GHO got him last night ?

What's a GHO?

 

[swampfox440]

What's a GHO?

Great Horned Owl.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Great Horned Owl.

Cool. We hear owls here a lot. I once had a dream about a three foot tall owl!

 

[raingarden]

I once had a dream about a three foot tall owl!

Great Horned Owls can stand more than two feet tall.

 

[swampfox440]

Some Winters it gets so cold that the snowy owls form up North migrate as far as the Southern shores of lake Eire. They truly are a spectacular sight.

 

[sourland]

Some Winters it gets so cold that the snowy owls form up North migrate as far as the Southern shores of lake Eire. They truly are a spectacular sight.

Some years they show up in Central Park and even make it to the Jersey Shore where they hunt the marshes.

 

[swampfox440]

Some years they show up in Central Park and even make it to the Jersey Shore where they hunt the marshes.

I didn't know that!