Raptor Wednesday

One of the local feral cats was passing by below.

Cooper’s hawk at Bush Terminal. I’d say a male because it wasn’t so big. (Females are substantially larger.)
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It all seems so tenuous sometimes. Here is awful news on the American Kestrel front. The Montreal population is in free-fall, mirroring downward trends across North America, and nobody knows why.

The hell we don’t. The answer is in the mirror.