Subject: Flocking shrikes?
Date: Apr 30 20:22:36 1997
From: Streiffert - streif at televar.com


Dear Tweeters,
My rancher uncle, who does own a bird book that he has been learning to
use over the past few years, has told me of bird observation he made
(two winters in a row) while feeding his cattle in the winter in NE
Oregon. He says shrikes come by the dozens to eat the dead grasshoppers
found in the round hay bales. He says he saw up to 200 shrikes at one
time. I told him the birds must be horned larks, but he says no -
they're shrikes. Northern shrikes, he insists. Could this be?
Kristi Streiffert
Coulee Dam, WA