Immature Coopers Hawk
The hawks have come here for several years. I get to see them twice a day in the winter but that declines to once a day in the late fall and early spring and then just a few sightings in the summer. The adults make sure the youngsters know my backyard is a feeding station and that many other birds gather here to eat. My backyard is a kind of grocery store for Coopers Hawks and Sharp-shinned Hawks. In the winter hawks have problems finding other birds as most birds leave and fly south to warmer climes and few remain here. I do feed wildlife in the winter and that makes my backyard like a grocery store for hawks
As sad as this post is because of the grocery shopping the hawks are doing, it’s just that something is always lunch for another bird or other creature.
Yes, it seems sad to us. But we eat the cow, the pig, the sheep and the chicken not to mention the eggs of the unborn. It is all kind of gruesome.