Monday, January 27, 2020

Fountain visitor (Coopers' hawk)

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



Garden, Spring 2019

I'm so sorry I haven't posted on this blog for...2 years!   I can barely keep up with my other two!

Anyway, if you want a little sunshine, here are some photos I took of my garden last Spring.   I had sunflowers and hollyhocks all over the front yard and around the mail box!   The hollyhocks got to be over 6' tall.   I planted black oil sunflower seeds from the bird seed I use in the yard and they weren't quite as tall.   They also weren't as sturdy as the hollyhocks and many of them broke in our March winds.