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Monday, January 1. 2018

Our feathered predators

Our local Sharp- Shinned Hawks have been daily visitors at our bird feeder. They are picking off innocent sparrows daily.  It's a circus out there. Sparrows smash against our windows trying to escape. That's why Mrs. BD terms it a Sharpie-feeder.  That's fine me with me because I am a carnivore too, and I like meat rare.


And each morning around 3 AM I hear our neighborhood hoot-owl - a Great Horned - establishing a nesting territory. They have already mated, will lay their eggs in January in the snow and frigid weather in an old crow's nest. That's how they roll, and it works.

Posted by Bird Dog at 11:39 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Sharpies and night-hooting owls are two things I miss about upstate NY, but neither are enough to make we want to go back
#1 Alex G on 2018-01-01 17:25 (Reply)
If a cat was wreaking the havoc among the birds your sharpie is, you would have a conniption fit right on this site. Show the fox with the cat picture every day for a month.

Over the last 30 years, the numerous cats we have had have killed only a small fraction of the small birds that the damned sharpie in our woods has. If it were legal, I'd kill it. Actually both of them. We are cursed with a pair.
#2 Bob Sykes on 2018-01-02 07:19 (Reply)
Sharpies belong here. Cats do not.
#2.1 Bird Dog on 2018-01-02 08:30 (Reply)
The red tail hawks are coming to our feeders to dine and unfortunately the kill is usually the slower dimwitted cardinals or doves. The owls must have moved their territory as I haven't heard them as in years past. I have to confess I have no idea what a sharpie is and when I look it up it only refers to the writing instruments. I like cats and usually all animals but do hate any predictors kills, but I know they have to eat too.
#3 JC on 2018-01-02 09:01 (Reply)

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