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Julie writes:
> Is anyone else in the city seeing birds of pray? I know there are
> falcons living on the downtown skyscrapers. Occasionally I see one
> perched on a highway street light over the Mississippi River- 35W
> bridge crossing. We've lived in NE for nearly 14 years and I never
> remember seeing such wild birds. Or maybe the birds I see were UM
> Raptor Center releases who liked the area?
>
>
Last winter my son and I were leaving the house out the front door to go to
preschool when I saw something red in the middle of the yard. I thought it
might be a child's cap from a snowball fight we'd had over the weekend.
When I looked more closely - I realized it was blood and some sort of animal
in the snow. We walked out to the truck and something caught my eye as it
swooped down and attacked the thing which I realized was a rabbit. We
watched the bird as it pecked at it's prey and finally picked the whole
thing up and flew off to the southwest. The bird was large, a hawk of some
kind, with a white breast. We ran into the house and looked it up, and
found we had seen a red tailed hawk. I wish I had gotten a picture of it.
Now, I am used to seeing hawks in the country where I grew up and summer,
but we live in the middle of the city, about a mile and a half from
downtown, and I was very surprised to see an urban bird of prey in my front
yard! Of course, I have no idea where it came from, and I have never seen
it since, but I assume animals such as this are around in the urban forests,
and I'm just not observant enough to notice them.
D. Klein
Kenwood, Ward 7
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