coyote's photos

A Cooper's Hawk showed up on my porch rail today! It's been fascinating watching different types of birds showing up now that winter is setting in. My big bird book shows a map of North America along with each bird, color-coded to indicate where they hang out at different times of the year. I'm accustomed to seeing red-tailed hawks in this area, so it was neat to see a different kind. Unfortunately, it seems this lovely creature has spied the proliferation of smaller birds that hang out on or under my back porch. S/he even hopped down into the bushes to forage around for the ground-nesting species. Yikes!

On a funny note, I watched a squirrel chase away the crows that were intruding on its 'private' section of the porch rail. Ha! The size difference is so disparate, it makes the squirrel's audaciousness even more comical.