The best watching this a.m. is from our kitchen window. A Red-Tailed Hawk just flew thru the side yard pursued by a Male Cardinal (At least one pair nests next to the house.) The female cardinal sat complacently beneath the platform feeder with the song and chipping sparrows and a chipmunk. Earlier this a.m. a Cooper's hawk flashed thru the yard in pursuit of a Red-Bellied Woodpecker. The woodpecker escaped, although its heart rate must have soared just shy of a seizure. The Cooper's then sat in the big tree in the back yard, waggled its tail for a minute or so and then was escorted off the property by 2 male Redwings (brave birds to chase a hungry accipiter). Shirley put out fresh pieces of orange for the Orioles, plus fresh jelly (today they get blueberry). Also fresh sugar water for the Hummer. A crow sat beneath the suet feeder for a while gleaning the scraps left by the usual 3 species of woodpecker. No little migrants today but maybe the hawks have kept them in hiding. Bill McAneny, TBurg
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