Thanks for sharing---Yuck.


At 10:24 PM 6/2/2004 -0400, you wrote:
>I watched a female Red-winged Blackbird meticulously pull the wings off a
>cidada, devour the head, and then leave, only to return shortly to finish
>the job by pulling the white goo out of the abdomen; the stuff appeared to
>have the consistency of melted mozarella cheese.
>
>Stan Arnold
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Tom Ewert" <>
>To: <>
>Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 9:53 PM
>Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Who's eating cicadas?
>
>
> > Who's eating cicadas?
> > A Barred Owl last Saturday at Sycamore Landing.
> > Crows catch them outside my 7th floor downtown DC office window.
> >
> > Tom Ewert
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Janet Millenson <>
> > To:  <>
> > Date: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 5:26 PM
> > Subject: [MDOSPREY] Who's eating cicadas?
> >
> >
> > >...The question refers to birds, of course (though I wouldn't put it past
> > >some of you). Although my neighborhood is literally crawling with
>cicadas,
> > >so far the only birds I've actually witnessed eating the things are House
> > >Sparrows. You folks must have seen other cicada snackers. How big a list
> > can
> > >we compile?
> > >
> > >Janet Millenson
> > >Potomac, MD (Montgomery County)
> > >
> > >----------------------------------------------------------------
> > >"Look at the birds!" -- Pascal the parrot