The Raptor Trust is one of my favorite organizations, and they are life-savers for so wild birds.

This Sunday is their Community Day, chock full of great events. You can learn more about it here:

On Monday I asked:

I found this assortment of feathers last week under a raptor nest. How many can you identify? Any idea what the raptor is?

Diane Louie replied:

Blue Jay, Mourning Dove and Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) prey of a Screech Owl

I agree on the feathers, but since the nest was "open air" (which I did not disclose) and not a nestbox, I am thinking it was a hawk or a falcon nest. There are a few still-unidentifed feathers, particularly the one in the lower right.

(Thanks, Diane!)

The last Fyke Nature Association meeting for the spring is tonight (Friday, May 19, at 8 p.m.), and the speaker is Karl Soehnlein, who has been a mainstay of the State Line Hawk Watch for more than a decade, The talk is free and open to the public.

I found this assortment of feathers last week under a raptor nest. How many can you identify? Any idea what the raptor is?

Thanks to the Fyke Nature Association's Tom Mitchell, we now have a webpage filled with so many wonderful memories of Stiles Thomas.

You can view it here:

http://fykenature.org/remembrance.php