Rick Phillip's location description is right on target. I went by this afternoon about 4:15 PM. Located the spruce trees, but no bird. Waited about 20 minutes, watched about a dozen crows fly westward apparently toward their roost, then a bird flew up with falcon-like wings ---- Merlin! It was still there when I left 30 minutes later. Immediately after it flew up to the branch, it scraped it beak on the branch. This is the same thing that is done after a bird leaves a suet feeder. Could it have been having dinner just prior to returning to its perch? Brian Wheeler's book indicates that a likely prey is the House Sparrow. It might have just come back from Pal's.
Great instructions. Thanks, Rick.
Bill Grigsby
Kingsport, TN
*************************************************
BRISTOL BIRDS NET LIST
Bristol Birds Net Photo Gallery located at:
http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/jwcoffeyy/album?.dir=/efd5
Be sure and visit the Bristol Bird Club website at:
http://bristolbirdclub.org
This is a regional birding list sponsored by the
Bristol Bird Club to facilitate communications
between birders and bird clubs of Southwest Virginia
and Northeast Tennessee.
--------------------------------------------------
You are subscribed to Bristol-Birds.
To post to this mailing list, simply send an email
to: bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe, send
an email to bristol-birds-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with
the one word 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field.
--------------------------------------------------
Wallace Coffey, Moderator
wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(423)764-****
