My schedule has been nuts this December and I haven’t had a chance to go to Friday banding at Carpenter Nature Center. This morning I had to miss it because I had a tv segment. I just came home and am going through email when I found the report of what they got this morning:
This photo was taken by Dennis Donath–a shrike, they got a northern shrike and I missed it! Stupid tv segment! It even has fresh blood around its bill from having killed something (that’s one of the reasons shrikes aren’t raptors–they don’t kill with their feet, they kill with the bill).
Pain, withdrawl, gnashing of teeth, lots and lots of whining…
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For you, I say….Crap! Crap, I say!
Wow, a northern Shrike! How cool is that? I bet a guy really has to be careful handling a bird with a beak like that!
(so sorry you had to miss it but at least they sent you a photo)