[Bristol-Birds] thru the looking glass
- From: "Rick Phillips" <sunfish0501@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:45:59 -0500
I stopped by the American Way entrance to the greenbelt trail in Kingsport,
Sullivan Co., Tn this morning to see what I could find. For the past few years
some unknown person has been scattering birdseed around the edges of the
parking area here. The birds feeding here are rather accustomed to people
walking by and so are not easily spooked. Makes for a nice place to photograph
some birds. In addition, someone (maybe the same person) has left a small pile
of dry catfood in another spot of the parking area each day...and on occasion
as a treat a small can of meaty, moist catfood. Have seen a red tabby feeding
here every now and then. More often I've seen starlings and crows eating the
catfood.
The stage is now set for the looking glass part. Today, as I was watching
starlings wolf down the catfood, one of the resident pair of adult
Red-shouldered Hawks flew down and started helping himself to a little snack (
of catfood...not starling). As I was still in shock trying to figure this one
out...down flies several crows flew in and landed in a tree overhead. They did
not seem alarmed, and did not harass the hawk. In fact...one of the crows then
flew down and sat side by side with the Red-shouldered and joined him for
breakfast. At that point I was finished trying to figure this one out and just
sat and watched. I remembered I had my video camera with me and got it out
just in time to get a few seconds of the Red-shouldered eating catfood. I
missed the crow!
In the immortal words of Andy Griffith...things were just getting "curiouser
and curiouser:!
Here is a link to a 1.4 Mb wmv video clip of the hawk. Just right-click on the
file and download and save it...then play with Windows Media Player.
http://webpages.charter.net/mtnsunfish/video/ ...file is rshawkshort001.wmv
Rick Phillips
Kingsport, Tennessee
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