[Bristol-Birds] Recent Trip Tallies

[Bill Cawood <b_cawood@xxxxxxxxx>]

On a recent school bus trip to St. Louis MO I counted/observed th following 
birds:

11-17 Driving along I64: 54 red-tailed hawks, 1 kingfisher, 10 acrobatic flocks 
of mixed blackbirds with each flock numbering 1000+ birds.  Near Okawville IL 
one of the red-tails swooped down and took something right beside the bus 
driver's side window (I was driving).  Sweet experience.

11-18 Near Edwardsville IL: 11 Canada geese flying in a wedge, 2 Osprey over 
ponds beside I55, 100+ ringbill gulls over same ponds, 1 kestrel hovering over 
roadside field.

11-18 St. Louis Gateway Arch area: 1 female hairy woodpecker, numerous juncos, 
robins, bluejays

11-18 St. Louis Galleria Mall: 1 red-tail hawk hunting from atop Macy's dept 
store.  Numerous nervous pigeons, 1 of which had impacted the window of Macy's 
and lay stunned on the sidewalk.

11-19: 6 red-tailed hawks, one of which was a roadkill, one was soaring near 
the St. Louis science center.  Three of the hawks were kettling near Horseshoe 
Lake State Park in Illinois.

11-20 I64 east from St. Louis -- Lexington KY: 49 red-tailed hawks, 16 turkey 
vultures, 3 kestrels

Bill Cawood, Big Stone Gap, VA

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