Today we got a call from our birding friend Paul Murray that a juvenile Northern Shrike was actively hunting the area around the Scott’s Mountain Hawk Watch. Jeanette and I had not seen the bird (after trying multiple times in multiple locations for others) so we rushed over and hoped we had enough daylight left. The bird had thankfully stayed around but was now on the other side of the reservoir after earlier being only 10s of feet from the gathered “Hawk Watchers.” The bird was scoped and given positive ID. However, our attempts at photographing the bird only provided the far-too-distant picture above. Happy to have seen it but look forward to better looks in the future.
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