This fellow flew by our front windows about 15 minutes ago.
He seems to be hanging around here for a while. There are pigeons about 2 blocks from us, and we are on the edge of a small woods...so we have lots of birds. I think he is after the doves. Our kitten Maya does watch out this window quite a bit behind my monitor too...it faces the back yard where the feeder is.
This guy seems quite large flying so close to the house. Same coloring as a sparrow hawk, but much much bigger.
One Christmas when our son was about 8 or so we were having a fancy breakfast and a huge hawk came right outside our dining room window and proceeded to eat a dove! It was rather gross and provoked our son into an eeeeuuuu
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attitude, but we subsequently called the event the Christmas Hawk. And now we have a Christmas Merlin! LOL
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Weezie looking at petunias 8.25.2017
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