Sue Elliot also mentioned the “disappearance of the Fork-tailed Flycatcher” when there was a Great Horned Owl in the area....
A Black Rail in the beak of a Great Blue Heron....that would be a hard life bird to swallow...(not be able to count!)
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From: Richard Guthrie <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 18:42:53 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: [VTBIRD] Birders’ and birds’ target species
... and the Hammond's Flycatcher (first state record) snagged by a Merlin
right in front of several admiring birders at Jones Beach, New York a few
years ago (2001); plus the photo of a Great-blue Heron flying away with a
Black Rail in its beak (San Francisco)
Rich Guthrie
New Baltimore,
The Greene County, New York
On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 5:05 PM, alison wagner <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> So....what is it about raptors targeting rare birds! I just read Jim
> Osborn’s account about a Bald Eagle trying to snag the Harlequins that have
> been hanging out at Charlotte Beach. It reminded me of the White-faced
> Ibis that was being videotaped by Green Mtn College students (a few years
> back) when photobombed by an opportunistic Peregrine. Need I say, that was
> one ambitious falcon! Then there was a more recent story of a rare gull(?)
> on the West Coast that got plucked from the scene. Perhaps it’s just
> that Birders are witnessing these events because they are focused on the
> same bird...innocent bystanders....but really, guys, why not a Starling!
>
> Ali
> Huntington
>
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Richard Guthrie
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