Hi all, There is raven on one of my spruces and croaking merrily!
Yesterday in the afternoon, I was looking out of my living room window, when a male GOLDFINCH came and sat on my yew about 3 feet from window. It seemed it was literally shivering. It sat there for a minute or so shivering. Then a female passed by. He soon followed her. After this I went to my backyard door to see what had caused the goldfinch to be so fearful. On the foot step of my backyard door there was woodchuck frozen and intently listening to something. I did not want to disturb the woodchuck, so I waited for the woodchuck to relax. After sometime it seemed relaxed and went on its way feeding. I slowly opened the door to see if I hear anything else. I heard both chickadees and robins both in still alarm mode. So I suspect a hawk in my yard like the other day. It must have chased the goldfinch and that is why it was terrified and escaped but still shivering with fear:-( Beautiful male seemed as an easy target for the hawk? Meena Meena Haribal Ithaca NY 14850 42.429007,-76.47111 http://haribal.org/ http://meenaharibal.blogspot.com/ Ithaca area moths: http://tinyurl.com/kn6q2p4 Dragonfly book sample pages: http://tinyurl.com/ky7acvp -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
