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2nd April 10, 09:55 AM
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Our Cooper's Hawk
My wife took the dog out for a walk the other day and came back in with a mess of red feathers in a bag. She said that they must be from a cardinal but wondered what could have happened to make such a mess of a cardinal.
So I smiled because I knew that it meant that Princess was back. Even though I live in the city, the area that I'm in has a lot of "old wood"....probably not that old by some standards but for an urban area it's pretty well wooded. Thus we have a lot of birds and where you have a lot of birds, you have the odd hawk that knows a smorgasbord when it sees it.
So last year, I look out in the back by the bird feeder and perched on a tall fence post was the most wonderful Cooper's Hawk. She stuck around for a few days...and a few days more...so I named her Princess and started singing "The Circle Of Life" whenever I found a little mess of feathers that used to be a sparrow or a chickadee. It has never bothered me that the odd predator takes out one thing or another because that's the way it goes...my wife, on the other hand....
So after the appearance of the clump of red feathers that used to be a cardinal, I went out to the front yard and she was up there circling around. Very reassuring to see her back again. The habitat lines are getting blurred these days and so we have some of these critters that you wouldn't think you'd see in town hanging around. My back yard is a total mess so it's more like natural habitat than any of the others on the block...so it's paid off in that it's let me have this un-official "pet" living here.
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