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Squirrels in some city parks will come right up to you for food, but Green-Wood’s Eastern Grays are quite cautious. After all, you could be a Red-tailed Hawk. This one was planning the next move… that right front paw may have been in bad shape. This one was gnawing away on hickory nuts. Green-Wood has…

A trio of Feral Pigeons, thirty-five (35!) Mourning Doves, and, in the upper right corner, a young Red-tailed Hawk. Everybody bolted when this big lug descended. No breakfast this time.

Happy holidays, everybody! I can’t access my own posts on a couple different browsers/computers and I don’t know what the issue is. Judging from comments, subscribers seem to be getting emails with the daily raptors lately…but meanwhile, my statistics are jumping with visitors looking, or attempting to look at numerous pages when they come to…

The russet front tells you this is an adult of several years’ age. Here’s one in juvenile plumage, all riled up because of, I presume, a bath.

(Two different Accipiters and a Merlin on the same school communications array.)

One of the above Red-tails is pictured below in more detail: In the spirit of that Boston TV channel that used to show all the Planet of the Apes movie on Christmas Day, “Christmas With the Apes,” I’ll be regaling you with raptor carols all week. For those of you new to this blog, you…