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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: beresford on March 09, 2010, 08:04:42 PM

Title: an easy lunch
Post by: beresford on March 09, 2010, 08:04:42 PM

Today on the outskirts of Long Sault Conservation Area I watched while a large female red-tail pilfered a meal from a merlin. In my heart I was hoping the merlin would make it to some cover in a nearby jack pine but alas the red-tail knew what it was about... an easy lunch!

I also spotted a horned lark, a male red-bellied woodpecker, a female hairy and a northern shrike that had just caught some unfortunate bird.

Cheers

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Post by: TomTelford on March 09, 2010, 10:54:27 PM

Did you mean from a Merlin or of a Merlin???

Tom.

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Post by: beresford on March 10, 2010, 12:03:13 AM

Sorry if I was uncelar. It was from a merlin.