Birds at my backyard feeders mirrored those of other reports; only unusual
sighting was on Friday 3/22 when 7 bushtits visited my seed and suet.
Yesterday birds ate voraciously all day during the storm.
While filling feeders this morning, a chickadee came in for a sunflower seed
twelve inches from me.
But...this afternoon 3/24 I was sitting at my dining room table, with
sliding glass doors on the right, and good views of the feeders, and also of
the porch with seed just on it just past the doors.
BLAM. Something big had hit the glass. I heard and saw 5 Eurasian collard
doves fly up from the porch, and a large spread out salmon colored tail of a
red tailed hawk on the porch against the glass for 3 or 4 seconds.
Apparently the hawk had made a dive for a dove from my right, and hadn't
noticed the solid glass doors. It rose immediately and flew up about 25
feet from the ground into a tree, then took off a minute later. His attempt
at lunch had been unsuccessful.
Karl Stecher
Centennial/Arapahoe County, near Colorado Blvd and Orchard
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