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Saturday, October 14, 2006

Wild Turkey and more


After watching the Orange-crowned Warbler feeding, and the flock of Sandhill Cranes migrating over, I watched several hawks appear to violate the territory of a local Red-tailed Hawk. The local hawk called over and over again, presumably warning the trespassers that this was it's turf. When trespassing hawks came too close the resident hawk flew up to escort the others on their way.

I also found a large flock of 20-25 Yellow-rumped Warblers that were very active, right before a small rain storm arrived. Mixed in were a male and female Downey Woodpecker, 2 White-breasted Nuthatches and a Northern Flicker.

I later birded the Florence River Park just on the northwest side of Florence where I found 2 female Wild Turkeys, including the one in this photo) ambling through (it was raining so there weren't many other humans around to disturb these normally wary birds).
SeEtta

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