This morning a fall male Black-and-white Warbler visited my dripper and bird
bath for a drink and a bath. Crisply plumaged, ready for the flight south.
Later a bright male Northern Parula was gleaning without uttering a chip in the
crepe myrtle in my front yard. Lots of robins and my first large flock of Fish
Crows for the fall. During the winter a flock of about 200 crows accumulates
in the trees of the apartment complex to the south of our house. This is
probably the beginnings of that flock. Two days ago I watched a female Coopers
Hawk pulling the fur off of and then eating the innards of a young rabbit.
That's the first time I've actually observed an accipiter eating a mammal.
Robert L. Ake
6603 Catherine Street
Norfolk VA 23505
I did an ABA Big Year in 2010 - If you'd like to review it, my blog is at
http://bobsbirds.blogspot.com/
