Every year the Cornell Ornithology Lab does the Back yard bird count. If I remember, we participate. You just count the birds that show up in your yard. It is easy and fun because we like to go, oh look it’s a blue bird. There is the titmouse, there is hte downy woodpecker. Yeah, our lives are that exciting.
This year we had a treat—a hawk on the ground eating suet I had tossed. He/she usually hunts the feeder and we do now and then find evidence that he has snagged a meal, usually a smaller bird. He was not letting anyone near that suet and, of course, no bird wanted to go near it because the hawk will eat them.
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