Save a woodpecker, kill a tiger shark

An old story:

I found some old pictures, which could be blog material, from a few years ago in November. Here's the first one:

Juv Red-tailed Hawk! But what is it doing?  I was observing this bird when it adopted a ridiculous pose.. And held it.. The bird slimmed itself down, and was staring up into the sky... It hardly moved for the first minute or so, but began to slowly rotate (still staring into the sky).. 

So what was the deal? Well........

It was then that I noticed the 3 Golden Eagles that had appeared overhead. Circling together, and not very high... The RTHA was trying to hide from these winged kings that had arrived on scene. 

I wish there was a more interesting end to this story, but there isn't. The GOEA's left and the RTHA went back to normal.. 

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Fun story about Tiger sharks and passerine migrants:

http://www.abcbirds.org/newsandreports/releases/120109.html

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New species, Blue-eyed Junco?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/missygracey/6671091637/in/pool-437129@N20

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If you haven't seen it already, here's a link to a pic of a Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch in northern ON recently (the rarer of the subspecies that's occurred in Ontario)... Snazzy bird:

http://northshorenature.blogspot.com/2012/01/another-hepburns-gray-crowned-rosy.html

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And here's an awesome blog posting, talking about why our winter weather has been so dry (with limited snow)... 

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2010