At about 11.00 this morning, as I crunched noisily over the ice and
walked out into the fields with my dog,
I immediately dislodged a Northern Shrike, perched nearby, low on a
sapling.
He flew a few feet away, landed again on a small tree and then
dove into the cover of the shrubs bordering the fields.

I went back three times over the day but never located the shrike again.

A dozen robins eyed the sparse leftovers on the
apple trees.  Two red tailed hawks flew over the fields and the immature
landed in the dead elm.  A cooper's hawk
perched by the house, having finally discovered the
congestion at the new feeder in the front yard.

Inga Schmidt
Chagrin River Road at the Geauga/Cuyahoga Co. line

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