Yesterday I had a visitor stop by our front fountain: a Coopers' hawk! YES! A nice, big FAT ONE, too. I think this is the momma. There are 2 young ones additionally in our neighborhood. In fact, one of our neighbors (next street over) stopped by and chatted and they visit her yard, too. I sometimes hear them cackling to each other. I always know when they are around because ALL the birds in the yard have disappeared! Sometimes when they take flight, they bump into my craft room window...poor things. And sometimes I find their feathers all over, so I know one has been a meal for one of the hawks. But, that's nature, right?
I did find a young hawk DEAD in the front yard last week. I looked at it and couldn't see any cause of death, and since I'm still recovering from week 3 of a TERRIBLE, coughing, NASTY flu, I didn't do anything with it. It sat out there until one morning I noticed the whole thing WAS GONE! I believe that one of the neighborhood feral cats made off with it. Nature's cycle completed.
Anyway, here's the link to the You Tube video that I made about the visitor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFrsDOy-8gU