thrasher, rough-legged hawk

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Jim & Judy Phillips

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Nov 25, 2009, 7:34:34 AM11/25/09
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Yesterday, I birded along New River in the Bluestone WMA in Summers and Monroe Counties.
At Bertha, I had ring-necked ducks, hermit thrush, brown creeper.
In the Chap Lilly campground near the mouth of Indian Creek, I had a brown thrasher, sharp-shinned & Cooper's hawks and a double-crested cormorant.
On the way and returning, I had an adult bald eagle in Hinton, Summers Co. and a rough-legged hawk near Peterstown, Monroe Co.
Jim Phillips
Summers County
Pipestem, WV

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Nov 27, 2009, 1:42:58 PM11/27/09
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    My better judgment told me that the attached feeder pole was not strong enough to support the 2 large wooden feeders --- BUT, I put them on it anyway to avoid the nocturnal raccoons. Forget about the squirrels. They could shimmy up it even when it was slick with rain. chuckle
    For the last week everything was fine. This morning I found it bent to the ground from the overnight wind storm. OR, was it a hefty raccoon who had learned the shimmy too?!
Cecelia in Sparta, NC
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Robert C. Perkins

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Nov 27, 2009, 1:58:00 PM11/27/09
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Cecelia,
Could a falling branch have hit the feeder pole? If not, what I
see in your photo looks like wind damage.

Bob
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Bob Perkins
Historian and general outdoorsman
Woodlawn, Virginia
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Nov 27, 2009, 4:57:06 PM11/27/09
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Bob,
I agree that the wind pulled the feeder over. There were no downed
limbs.
Cecelia

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