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In our front yard I have a small feeder in our red bud tree. It has mostly small seeds but the feeder also gets left over popcorn, squash seeds and other left over things that birds and or squirrels eat. In it not as active as the back feeders because it has few sunflower seeds and well it is right next to the sidewalk and road way.

So my wife was at the window with her morning coffee and lets me know we have a visitor at the feeder. Well not right at the feeder, up above it, anyway quite near it.

So in keeping with our only proof is if there are pictures here you go.
He/she was there for more then an hour but when the big brown truck pulled up it was time to leave. When I checked later and brought my package in there were no signs that lunch had been served.

BTW this had no effect on back yard bird activity.

Ed

Is that a Coopers Hawk? AKA Chicken Hawk, they like birds for there diet. I have one around here, but without a breast shot cant quite tell.

Here is one from a couple of years ago, out in the wilds near the local library, dated Nov. 2011. I think we all agreed at that time it was a coopers hawk. It would have been nice to have it turned around like the old one but you get what you get.

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Ed

Nice shots.

Reible, I am a bit of a birder, so last winter I have my feeders out on a tree line in my back yard about 30ft from my window where my PC desk is at. 3 Cardinal couples, a pair of BJs, Chicks, but I got a Cooper that hangs in the area, thats fine, I like birds of prey, Owls are my favorite, so it is Jan and some Morning Doves that too lazy to head to IL show up at the feeders, I dont like them, or how they sound at 530 on a summer morning, when I am trying to fall back to sleep after that pee call. So I am at the PC having my morning coffee and surfing, and it looks like it is snowing those quarter size flakes just floating down then I realize they are grey and breast feathers, look up in a tree branch, there is the Cooper plucking a MD. I got a pic, but it is in Appleton, I should be up there next weekend, If I did not delete it will post.

Nice pictures Ed., thanks.
The Hawks we have (Red Tail, Harrier) not sure which love to bust Morning Doves in flight.
Morning Doves when they hear a Hawks cry hunker down flattening themselves on the ground. Hawk flies back and forth screaming until a dove gets unnerved and takes flight. The hawk then strikes them in mid air. It is like a fire work display feathers flying everywhere.

Never see them with other birds. However one flew by about a year ago that looked real funny. The closer it got I could see it had a squirrel. The tail was flapping in wind, hawk was definitely working to stay airborne. When I saw the squirrel I gave the passing hawk a hardy cheer.