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Posted by Bob Kelley on 18:42:30 09/24/05
In Reply to: Merlin - Cutler Wetland posted by Trey Mitchell
Your pictures are wonderful. I have had many experiences with Merlins over the years, and I never cease to be amazed at their speed and manuverabilty which is unmatched in all of the birds of prey that I have seen locally. In the days when the Virginia Key Sewerage Treatment Plant was still flooding the settling ponds they would winter in the area catching the small shorebirds. They will also set up on peoples Bird Feeders, and they can easily catch even warblers in flight(as I have seen them do). To me they are winged death.
Bob Kelley
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Went by Cutler Wetland this evening for a few minutes with my daughter Abby
: for a quick look. We saw a lot of semi-palms, least sandpipers, semi-palmated
: plovers, Yellow Legs, Black-necked stilts and a few Dowitcher, Stilt Sandpiper,
: Dunlin, Rudy Turnstone.
Then everything took off all at once. We looked around and found this Merlin
: with its prey.
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