Mob(bed) Scene

When you are a hawk just minding your own business in the top of a very tall pine tree and the crows decide to harass you repeatedly...note that the hawk doesn't do anything except look up at them. 
 

A Visitor

 

Imagine my surprise and delight when I looked out the window and saw this gorgeous bird in the fountain. I believe it to be a juvenile Cooper's hawk (though I am having a bit of a hard time saying for sure...). He or she stayed there for about 20 minutes or so, mostly just standing with a bath or two. 

Feather pants! 

So so cool...this is only the second time that I've seen a hawk in our fountain. Of course, the whole time I kept thinking "stay away, little goldfinches, stay away." 

Sitting in a Tree...

 

Periodically over the past few weeks, I have heard a raptor calling insistently. One day I looked out front--and across the street and 50 feet up--and saw these two hawks (I'm not sure which species, alas; red-tailed hawks are most common there, but the smaller bird does not have a red tail). 

The smaller one on the lower branch was looking up at the other bird and screeching. Then it took off while the other stayed put. I do think it was a parent and juvenile...the juvenile was begging to be fed and then finally decided it needed to go off and find something for itself. Fascinating!

The Birds and the Bees, Demonstrated by the Birds (Oh, My!)

 I was watching this bird through my camera--it is obviously a raptor of some sort that I can't quite identify; this tree is the next street over...

When all of a sudden someone else flew in...

This was all very quick (and quiet).

She then proceeded to sit in the tree by herself for another 2 (!) hours. 

Nature!

Majesty

 

A bit blurry, but look at this lovely...it's either a Cooper's Hawk or a red-tailed hawk.