Mid-Atlantic Gardening: MID ATLANTIC BIRDS IN OUR GARDENS, 1 by Gitagal

Gitagal wrote:
OK! Doc--don't start this Thread with negative predictions--or expectations....
Just try to go with the flow....

Sorry that you have such a problem with Posts, naturally, tending to meander...
This is basically a "Chat Room"--just of much greater and more intellectual proportions.

If it stayed ONLY on the topic on hand--NO Posts would ever reach the 200 mark.
They would die at--lets say--maybe 40 Posts.....Given the multitude of levels of gardening
knowledge--it is a given that topics of discussion will take some detours. Patience!

This very blurry picture is of a hawk de-feathering, and then consuming, a Blackbird of some kind
last winter on a snowbank against my shed.
I took some pictures through my very dirty LR window--and also in a zoom function--
which means my hand had to be a lot more steady than usual. So! It is NOT too focused.

I watched this hawk for quite a while--as I had never seen one before.
Is this a Sparrow Hawk???? Going by the striated marks on it's chest..

Don't see too many wild birds of the attack kind around here...I live in a development.
NOT like open areas and acres of acres of open space.

Anyway--this is MY contribution..........Gita