California Gardening: Backyard birds, 1 by JasperDale

JasperDale wrote:
I snapped this picture of a hawk that was sitting in the limbs of the Mulberry tree last fall. I only knew it was there because I saw it's shadow on the lawn as I walked by, so I ran and got the camera.

It stayed there for over an hour and I watched it, but it didn't move, so I went inside to see what it would do. Then I noticed feathers blowing out of the tree about six feet from the hawk. I got my binocs and could see there was a carcass of some kind of bird laying on it's back across some limbs.

I got my big ladder out and climbed to the top to see what the dead thing was. Couldn't tell if it was a pigeon or what because it was on it's back, but clearly dead. Meanwhile, the hawk didn't budge. It stayed right where it was.

Here's the photo. The story continues in the next post.