Backyard and Beyond

Starting out from Brooklyn, an amateur naturalist explores our world.

As John Burroughs said, “The place to observe nature is where you are.”

Raptor Wednesday

Two Coopers Hawks, one with a pigeon. The bird with the prey brought it down to the solar panels and feasted for an hour.

The feasting bird can just be glimpsed through the parapet fire-escape cut. There was a third accipiter in the air (to the left) in the background while this was going on.

A couple of crows showed up.

They rather boldly grabbed scraps of pigeon with both hawks around.

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