30 December 07
Doom Of Gophers
As Pica relates, this harrier today grazed our back window, landed a few feet off, and started devouring a gopher which he was carrying after catching it out in the field. It wasn’t looking like a good day to be a gopher — the raptors were out in force today. In the space of a quarter-mile walk, we saw a red-tailed hawk, a harrier, a white-tailed kite, a kestrel, turkey vultures, a Cooper’s hawk, not to mention a great blue heron hunting out in the field.
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Happy New Year to both you and Pica, Numenius. We are heading off to Lady Elliot Island today for 3 days. This is peak nesting time for all the seabirds so stay tuned – we will report back on what we saw.
“Doom of Gophers” is such an awesome title!