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More Red-tailed Hawk hijinks. Three were in the air: these two adults (the male is smaller) and a first year bird. The juvenile ventured some squirrel hunting on the ground… … the two adults landed above. This was the scene that had the three squirrels worrying, as seen in yesterday’s post. Half an hour later,…

The first and fourth images are of the same individual, a few minutes apart. So these are three different squirrels keeping very still as three Red-tailed Hawks perched on nearby trees.

Guess this was sap, since there didn’t seem to be any reservoir above for water to drip down from. And who, frankly, wants to know?

I won’t be surprised if they bring back DDT. * The Greenland thing as a lebensraum project, only instead of people, it’s resources, rare earths and uranium, a blunderbuss effort to counter the Chinese in the race to rape the Arctic as the ice retreats.

Downy Woodpecker White-breasted Nuthatches Turns out there are two Baltimore Orioles at Dell Water. Caught them one after the other. Carolina Wren Red-winged Blackbird Wren more time.

Just as I was wondering what the Mallards and Canada Geese were finding to eat atop the ice of Sylvan Water, the persistent American Coot came out of the water and started eating as well.( Seemed too far from shore for broadcast birdseed.)

Red-tailed Hawks circling each other on various days in the last month. Courting time.

For about 25 minutes, this Coopers Hawk plucked and ate a Feral Pigeon until the next door neighbor scared the bird away, with prey firmly in grip, while trying to get a cellphone photo of the situation.