Pinewood
New York correspondent
More autumnal sightings
Hello all,
I am still seeing white sparrows, tufted titmice, hermit thrushes, northern flickers, red bellied woodpeckers, white breasted nuthatches and even brown treecreepers. Today, I saw no gray catbirds.
In the last week, I saw a house wren, a yellow bellied sapsucker, my first juncos, of the season, even a couple on high branches, a palm warbler, house finches and a phoebe.
I even had some close encounters with raptors. Today, at the feeders, a Cooper hawk swooped down, rather suddenly, but did get anything. Last week, I was a red tailed hawk, shaking off water, on a branch above Azalea Pond, after having a good bathing in the Pond.
Alert: the next paragraph is not for the squeamish or sensitive.
On the Lake, west of the Point, a juvenile red-tailed hawk landed with a northern flicker in its talons. The flicker was still alive turning its head this way and that way, before the hawk finished it off and had breakfast.
All images by Louis Agassiz Fuertes.
Happy bird watching,
Arthur :hi:
Hello all,
I am still seeing white sparrows, tufted titmice, hermit thrushes, northern flickers, red bellied woodpeckers, white breasted nuthatches and even brown treecreepers. Today, I saw no gray catbirds.
In the last week, I saw a house wren, a yellow bellied sapsucker, my first juncos, of the season, even a couple on high branches, a palm warbler, house finches and a phoebe.
I even had some close encounters with raptors. Today, at the feeders, a Cooper hawk swooped down, rather suddenly, but did get anything. Last week, I was a red tailed hawk, shaking off water, on a branch above Azalea Pond, after having a good bathing in the Pond.
Alert: the next paragraph is not for the squeamish or sensitive.
On the Lake, west of the Point, a juvenile red-tailed hawk landed with a northern flicker in its talons. The flicker was still alive turning its head this way and that way, before the hawk finished it off and had breakfast.
All images by Louis Agassiz Fuertes.
Happy bird watching,
Arthur :hi:
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