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| One of at least two Cooper's Hawks that are hunting the place. The other is immature, and thus more brown than all these fancy colors |
Counting birds, when suddenly all goes silent. Birds melt, some tucking up under the edge of the foundation, some in the Christmas trees that form a windbreak for the ground-feeding birds, some flying off as fast as light.
This bird, a flying appetite, sails over to perch on the big elm by the heifer barn, or in the nearby trees, or even on the roof of the house itself.
I haven't seen it take any prey, but he, or more likely she, as this is a big bird, has left some marks.
There is a Mourning Dove with a ruffled neck and only one tail feather and a White-throated Sparrow with no tail at all.
I have only one question...why, does this hungry predator not eat any and all of the 35 Brown-headed Cowbirds that come in to hoover every single seed off the big feeder and scare all the other birds away?
Why?
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You sure capture some neat pictures of birds.
Lisa, thanks! This was just a lucky one, as this bird is so bold it just sat there while we took pictures!
I so understand. The Red-tailed hawk hunting around here seems to leave the nasty ring-necked doves alone to MULTIPLY and multiply while the other darling birds become LUNCH!
Linda, it is nature taking its course and I love to see the raptors but still.....
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