Hawk, etc.
The wife was out gardening today and caught the image below of a red-tail hawk in a pine tree. She (the red tail) preened herself for several minutes while the wife tried to get closer for a better shot.
Some of the smaller birds mobbed the hawk and chased her out of the pine... Fortunately, the mob drove the raptor directly over where the wife was standing, and she got the two shots below...
How beautiful is that?
Pretty cool, no? (It's unfortunate that the raptor was probably waiting for its chance to devour one of our songbirds, but that's all part of the game.)
Other yard stuff... Lot of chirping and cheeping... red-wing blackbirds, chickadees, crows, orioles - the usual suspects... What else? Saw something interesting earlier... Something I don't think I've ever noticed before... Gusts of winds would shake pollen off the trees like it was fog - oh goody.
And then there's the cute little adolescent bunny who adorably hunkered down in the wife's garden and sliced and diced his way through one of her astilbe plants. (Maybe we should just pave the entire yard and simply call it a draw. Hmmm...) [Mrs. CapeCodAlan says, "I don't think so..."]
See you by the feeders,
CapeCodAlan
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