Jeez, Refrigerator, I don't often brush aside Almanac info very easily, although I do take it with a grain of salt.
You're making me glad I'm on the opposite coast, though.
I have the most incredible diversity of birds around me - several types of gull, a merlin, bald eagles, stellar's jays, wrens and sparrows of several varieties, crows (smart buggers, let me tell you), blue herons, cormorants, mallards....
I watched the local merlin hunt and kill a pigeon recently; what made it so bizarre is that I was DRIVING at the time, in a suburb, and the pair had swooped down low over my van as the pigeon tried desperately to avoid the merlin's claws. I had feathers rain down onto the windshield, saw the pigeon to a somersault when the merlin 'tagged' it, and then lose it's fight for survival to the hungry predator.