Heather, I had a beautiful male harrier over our big field, flying low, hovering, giving me a wonderful view and plenty of time to take it in. Today, Saturday, in the deep and falling snow, another harrier, I think a male again, was here in the same field, and one across the road. What a treat! Nancy Burdick, Swans Road, Newark. > > From: Heather Nagy <[log in to unmask]> > Date: 2008/03/08 Sat PM 04:45:05 CST > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [Ohio-birds] Yard Birds, Licking County > > Wow! We got two new yard birds today, after living in this house nine > years. A northern harrier flew over while I was shoveling a foot of snow > from the driveway late this morning, and a rusty blackbird was under the > platform feeder a few minutes ago. The rusty blackbird was a life bird for > my daughter. The other highlight of the day was an adult Cooper's Hawk who > took a starling off the peanut feeder. The spunky starling refused to give > up, and fought valiantly while pinned to the ground in deep snow under the > hawk's talons. He fought for about 5 minutes, hawk repeatedly jumping up > and down with him. Finally the unfortunate starling succumbed and was > consumed. Later in the day a juvenile Cooper's perused the feeders for > quite awhile, but was eventually distracted by a stray cat walking through > the woods. He followed the cat until he was out of our sight. We also had > our first Red-winged Blackbird today! Spring can't be far off! > > > > Total yard list (22 species) for today: > > N. Harrier -1 > > Cooper's Hawk - 3 > > A fox sparrow - he's been here about a week > > Song sparrow -2 > > Cardinal - 14 > > Blue Jay - at least 2 > > White-breasted nuthatch -2 > > Red-breasted nuthatch -2 > > Tufted Titmouse -2 > > Carolina Chickadee -2 > > Carolina Wren -2 > > Rusty Blackbird -1 > > Red-winged Blackbird -1 > > European Starling -20 > > House Finch -16 > > Goldfinch -12 > > Black Vulture 2 > > Turkey Vulture - 4 > > Canada Goose -20 > > Mourning Dove -6 > > Hairy Woodpecker -1 > > Downy Woodpecker -2 > > > > Heather Nagy > > Pataskala > > > > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. > Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. > Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. > > You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: > http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] > ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]