Subject: Re: Flocking shrikes?
Date: May 1 11:09:59 1997
From: steppie at wolfenet.com - steppie at wolfenet.com


Kristie,

If this is true, I think it would be an amazing event. I've never seen
shrikes in more than a family group.

By the way, you made front page news in the Yakima Herald-Republic today
with your article on "Women's Outdoor Gear." Not being affected by the
challenges you stated so I learned something new. Thanks.

Andy Stepniewski
Wapato WA

>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
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