Subject: Dead juncos aren't much fun
Date: Jan 24 15:29:34 1996
From: Raymond Korpi - rkorpi at clark.edu


I've been having a dearth of birds in my hard since my wife noted a brown
blur last Friday. I went out to put seed today and found bits and parts
of a junco, but all the bits and parts I found were feathers, primarily
wing and breast. No carcass bits were found at all. I'm suspecting a
predator of avian origin as the birds would seek shelter in these bushes
when cats appear, and the distribution of the feathers closely resembles
those I found when my December gyrfalcon was eating its mallard. Has
anyone observed enough cat or small raptor kills to help me confirm or
deny my hypothesis? Will enjoy any comments as the rains falls here and
the stack of papers to grade grows. RK

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Ray Korpi "Upstream,
Hm: Portland, OR a cardinal perches
Wk: Clark College on the tip of a tamarack sawyer
Vancouver, WA like an ornament on the hood
rkorpi at clark.edu of the Kaiser's most influential car."
--William Kloefkorn, from
_Platte_Valley_Homestead_, #4