[CT Birds] Shrike

[Dana Campbell]

Today I got a new yardbird who got one of my other yardbirds!  I was standing in the back yard filling a feeder when I heard a small bird alarm call from behind me.  Suddenly, with a whoosh of black and white a NORTHERN SHRIKE flew right by me with a small bird in its talons.  It lit in my bare forsythia bushes right next to a bunch of House Sparrows, dispatched the little bird, gave me a glance, then flew off with its breakfast towards the front yard.  It all happened in a flash.  I was still standing there with my mouth open.  High melodrama in the back yard!


Dana Campbell, Missioner, mother-dana at juno.com
The Greater Hartford Regional Ministry

"Oh Lord, how shining and festive is your gift to us, if we only look, and see."  Mary Oliver
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