Yesterday afternoon I was walking near the Cherry Creek Country Club Golf Course and a VERY aggressive and seemingly hungry Broad-winged Hawk took a too close for comfort look at my African Grey Parrot (who was perched on my shoulder in a harness/leash contraption). The hawk dove down at us and got within about 20-30 yards before it turned away and called several times. My parrot returned the call with repeated Red-tailed Hawk calls and seemed to chase the Broad- winged Hawk away to a large Cottonwood. The calling back and forth went on for about the whole 10 minutes it took me to carefully get home with the calling parrot hidden in my jacket - no more shoulder rides during hawk migrations.
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