As I was doing some dishes this morning I thought I spooked a squirrel that was acquiring a peanut from the deck- he jumped up on the deck rail and then froze. Hmm. Let's take a look around. The reason he wasn't moving was sitting in one of the ornamental plums looking for breakfast. Watched the Coopers for a bit and several Chickadees and Titmice flew in to scold the hawk (this called "mobbing"). The first Chickadee that flew in apparently didn't see the hawk, landed on a branch about three feet away from it, and left a lot faster than it arrived when it realized what was sitting on the branch.The hawk finally left after hanging out in the yard for over an hour.
Newsflash: Hawk came back. Looked out the basement door and it was sitting in a bush just above the stairwell, five feet away, looking back at me.
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