I feeds the birds, the birds feed the birds

Cardinals are funny, in that the male will often feed the female, even when not mating season. The robins are often seen picking at a worm until it stops "fighting" so that it can be feed to youngsters. Sometimes the male will feed the female or vice versa, depending on who's on the nest. Today another bird got a chance to eat.

I didn't get a photo of it, as it was only watching carefully to see who was watching it, then it took its prey in talons, and left to eat it in a tree. The hawk was so fast that others fly by the hawk, confused as to where to go and what happened. The hawk's kill was under claw, quite dead and it wasn't forcing the hawk to move.

My guess ... the falcon got a sparrow -- not much of a meal, but something. Those stupid doves would make a larger, better meal, but that's not what the one got today.

The above picture was borrowed from here.

Squirrels around here are pigs

While they have "behaved" by not launching themselves on the feeders, they are naughty and always piggishly hungry. This picture is like them or better still, the chipmunks that are so common around here.


-- Thanks Andrew Bell