Thursday, December 19, 2013

Much Going on at Tiffany's

In the first video you see a male House finch hold his composure when everybody else flees. In the second, a Red-winged blackbird lands with a broken or damaged right foot. The third, fourth, and fifth videos are all false alarms caused by Eurasian dove landings. In the fifth video the Eurasian doves even scare themselves when they see everybody else take off.Looking out the office window not even an hour after he brings the GoPro in he sees most, but not all, of the songbirds scatter. This time it really is the Sharp-shinned hawk. Tom doesn't have time to grab a camera and heads out the door. Charging out of the kitchen he can see the Sharp-shinned has something. The Sharp-shinned sees Tom running across the driveway and tries to gather it's meal up and then takes off in flight. There's a male Junco injured on the ground and Tom grabs it. Flying off it appears the Sharp-shinned has something in one claw. Tom takes the injured Junco into the lodge and holds it in the office for a few hours.
The Junco appears ready to return to the outdoors but there's a slight delay, the front porch is occupied.
Once Zorro has left it's out to the Desert Willow. Sometime soon, Tom and the Sharp-shinned are going to have a talk.

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