has anyone added robins yet?
i saw one attack and eat one today.

also on my way to work while crossing the Memorial bridge I saw a Yellow
Billed cuckoo flying overhead and yes....it was carrying a cicada.

>From: Sharon Schwemmer <>
>Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding <>
>To: 
>Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Who's eating cicadas?
>Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 12:13:33 -0400
>
>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