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**Our BALD EAGLE population surely have become
successful opportunists. Ron Steeves watched a bald eagle take a MINK off the
river in front of his Salisbury area home. I would think that could be prey that
would have to be taken with great care. The mink can be a real ball of fury! Ron
used another term for the bald eagles opportunistic dining habits, however bald
eagle headquarters has suggested not to use that in a public
forum.
**On Monday afternoon Dave Christie was travelling
across the Gunningsville Bridge and up Gunningsville Blvd. in Riverview when
near the crest of the hill he suddenly encountered a huge congregation of CROWS
that he estimated at 1000+ at approximately 4:30 pm. They were feeding on the
grass roadside areas and more perched in the trees along the edge of the tree
line. Dave comments it was an impressive solid display of crows for a distance
of approximately .8 km, very concentrated in that area. He passed by again the
same site again at 5:15 pm and not a crow insight. So apparently they moved to a
communal night roost elsewhere, probably in the City where night roosts have
been reported. On Friday he was in a nearby area to see only
approximately 75 crows only.
Dave also comments WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS are being seen in
the Mary's Point-Harvey area but numbers are still considered low.
