Day Two of the Hawk

It's 7am and seven degrees when Tom steps out on the porch. If the Sharp-shinned comes in false dawn to set his trap Tom will be there. Tom feeds the birds at 9am and by 10:30am still not a single raptor has appeared. Tom makes breakfast and before heading to the office to eat looks out the window to see no songbirds and a bush that is thicker than it was a little while ago. Today, the Cooper's hawk, like it or not, will have a new traveling companion.