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Feb/11/2021 01:20 PM
WHILE WRITING THE POST that precedes this one I was surprised by sudden motion on the bird feeders outside my window. I turned to see a gorgeous Coopers Hawk settle on top of my feeder pole! Talk about aggressive feeding techniques! This guy (probably a male since he was on the smaller side) sat there for about five minutes looking all around. He obviously knew somebody was hiding nearby. After a short while he suddenly stepped off the pole and dropped into the snow below right by a small fir tree. There must have been some small birds taking refuge inside because Mr. Cooper crouched down and started peering up into the lower branches looking for them. I'm sure those little birds were not happy with those vermillion eyes searching for them.

There are additional pictures in the gallery of this Coopers Hawk.

Photo taken 2/11/21

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They live among us...

Feb/11/2021 10:16 AM
At the beginning of February 2020 I was just finishing up building this Biota web site that I'd been contemplating for a while. Around Feb. 3rd I published the site and sent a sample link to a couple of people to get some feedback. That evening I began getting sick from what apparently was Covid-19. While the virus didn't quite kill me, it did stop the web site in its tracks. Now, a full year later, my mind has wandered back to this web site. A big part of that is a result of the vivid interest people in the Northview neighborhood have shown toward the wild life recently spotted around our houses and on our porches! So consider this web site an homage to the bears and the birds and the bugs and bramble that we live among.

Be sure to check out the hawk and owl photos in the Gallery taken by Stuart Chipkin from his back deck. When I say the animals live among us—I'm not kidding!


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Photo: © 2021 Stuart Chipkin

Tags: dogs, cats, bears, coyotes,

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