Wizards of the North Shore

Every year we are also visited by a Merlin and this year was no exception. This one spent it's evening dining on the hundreds of dragon flys that were flying about. This is one acrobatic bird in the air. We watched him chase and eat for about a 1/2 hour. Very cool!!!

Merlin:

Thinking of warmer times . . .

It's been some pretty ugly weather around here (as I have mentioned previously) so I haven't really gotten out. The one nice day that we had earlier this week I attempted to go to Carlos Avery, but got there later than I wanted and the gates were closed anyway. So I went back through the archives a bit and pulled out these photos of a Merlin I took last fall up on the North Shore.

Merlin:




If you look at the birds right leg/foot, it appears that he was injured. We witnessed this bird actively hunting a day or two later, so the extent of the injury was unknown.