This fire-escape is in the morning sun and out of the predominantly western winds. Can easily see a dozen Mourning Doves up here, a scattering of European Starlings, and a few House Sparrows. It’s also a great place to perch for a raptor, meaning a scattering of all the other birds. Two days before this, a mature Coopers was up here.
“I think the tragedy is that we have a Congress with a Senate that has a minority of misguided senators who will use the filibuster to keep the majority of people from even voting.” ~ Martin Luther King, born January 15, 1929.
Backyard and Beyond 
Great photos and great quote by Martin Luther King!
It is such a shame that this quote is still true.
We are still fighting.
I love Kestrels more than Cooper’s Hawk. But that hawk is like “whatever, can’t bother me!”
It was a male American Kestrel that got me involved in birding. It was claiming territory and saw me as a threat when I looked out the 3rd floor barn door of my 25th Street shop. It took this tercel two weeks to stop buzzing me, but I was already hooked by then.