Just out of curiosity - Do turkeys also prey on voles? I know domestic chickens
will eat almost anything that moves, if it is small enough for them to handle.
So.??..
Darrel
From: "Joel geier" <clearwater@xxxxxxxx>
To: "obol" <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Mid-Valley Nature" <mid-valley-nature@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, November 1, 2020 4:17:44 PM
Subject: [obol] No sign of Camp Adair shrike, but now 3 Trumpeter Swans in
neighborhood
A mid-morning loop around the neighborhood produced no shrike sightings in the
area where I saw one yesterday.
However a third TRUMPETER SWAN has now joined the pair that showed up
previously on Kester Pond (in the hamlet along De Armond Rd. south of Airlie
Rd.). All of them are adults.
There are good numbers of American Kestrels around the neighborhood now. Along
Tampico Rd. on the north end of OSU's Soap Creek Ranch, I saw a young Cooper's
Hawk fly in to perch in the same tree as a Red-tailed Hawk, with just 10 feet
or so of space between them -- don't think I've ever seen that before. Neither
one of them looked especially happy about the situation, but neither one wanted
to be the first to move. That tree overlooks a pasture which is likely full of
voles, and certainly full of Wild Turkeys.
--
Joel Geier
Camp Adair area north of Corvallis
