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A visiting raptor

Well…that explains our sudden decrease in the variety of birds visiting the bird feeder.

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I thought it was my ugly shoes…soon I’ll donate them
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Or the dog that was running loose in the neighborhood
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Or Copper marking his turf
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Or the rabbits attracting predators
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Or the ground squirrel
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Who would’ve thought it was the crows?
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This many of them…
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They come here a lot…but they’re not the scary bird
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Hey buddy – what’cha doing chasing our pal?  
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Off they go
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He comes back around
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Flys right through the center of the sunspot

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Wow – that’s something new – a Hawk chasing the Crows.

Post Inspiration – The adventures of having a trail cam.

PS – Have you ever seen a hawk chase crows?  We sadly know why the hawk is around – he’s been feeding on the neighbor’s homing pigeons.  Now he’s moved on to our mourning doves and apparently the crows.  Sad…  Do you know what kind of hawk it is?  

38 thoughts on “A visiting raptor

  1. Oh no!! The poor little birds. And the bunnies 🙁
    This is “survival of the fittest” at its most basic. Great photos though! (I saw a deer yesterday on my walk and thought of you and your collection of wildlife. It strolled across the street about 20 or so feet ahead of me).

    1. You’ve got that right! It’s quiet in the yard during the day now. Aw, that’s cool about seeing a deer strolling on a street by you.

    1. LOL – I don’t disagree with you. I do appreciate the dang thing for ridding the yard of voles, though, I don’t like voles either.

  2. I love reading your posts because not only are they interesting. It’s about living life in a different country to mine. Although every day life is similar the environment is not the same.

    1. Aw, Julie, I so appreciate your compliments. Thank you!! I agree, it is fun to read about what life is like in other parts of the world!

  3. you are feeding the hawks too. Indirectly! 🙂 It’s probably either a Cooper’s hawk or Sharp Shinned hawk. They look a lot alike – just different sizes. Unfortunately a male Cooper’s is the same size as a female Sharp Shinned. Both prey on other birds.

    1. LOL – that’s true, the circle of bird lives here in the country is in full force. These hawks are in full force right now, and a lot of different sizes – not sure if they are all related, or if some message was sent around the neighborhood as to where to find good pickings?

  4. We’ve had a similar hawk in our yard. We have seen the crows chase him away. Crows can be nasty. The hawk was chasing small birds in our neighbor’s yard. I think Coopers as for kind of hawk.

    1. Interesting. All of the predator type birds are creepy to me. Thank you for sharing your vote on what type you think it is!

    1. Thank you, Carol. The crows are ferocious this year, same with the hawks apparently. I’m sad for the doves, too. They’re such a peaceful bird. Hope your daughter’s situation gets better.

  5. Last year we had a Cooper’s Hawk at Council Point Park – I had just fed one of the squirrels and this big bird swooped down and went after him … Stubby ran under a picnic table in the pavilion area and dodged the hawk. It flew to the chain link fence and I got a picture of it and discovered what it was online. They hunt for mice, squirrels and voles but attack birds too. A few years ago I was walking along and heard a loud screeching sound from a bird. The bird was shrieking – nothing I’d ever heard before. I looked up and was sorry I had looked up as a peregrine falcon was chasing a medium-sized bird. The bird was screeching as it got closer. I looked the other way – didn’t want to hear it make the capture. But it did and everything was quiet. I mentioned it to a neighbor who said ” you don’t see any more pigeons around now do you?” I felt sick.

      1. A fellow blogger (Kate Crimmons) lives in Pennsylvania and has a fish pond and feeds the birds and squirrels all year around. She wrote about the heron feasting on the fish in her pond – that was not so cruel and she replaced the fish and put a board over so the heron could not stand there and help himself. But soon afterward, a fox was routinely sneaking up on birds who fed under the feeder (like doves mostly) and then got a few squirrels who were on the ground eating their peanuts or scamming birdseed from the ground where it had spilled from the feeder. She had the same sick feeling as you had/I have. I’m about to get going – we had some fog earlier and we had a worrisome evening last night as tornadic activity had been predicted – we were okay, but this year and the weather has knocked a year or two off my life.

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