My husband had a similar close call yesterday as a Kestral took a
Mourning Dove in the reflection on top his head--also, the Carolina
Wren we have had in our Brookfield yard was still singing up a storm
last evening.  PG


Nancy Goodrich wrote:

>About 1:30 this afternoon the backyard birds in this downtown Burlington
>neighborhood were making quite a racket. The crabapple tree, planted 50+
>years ago by Lyman Rowell was full of more than 50 house sparrows, a
>pair of catbirds and a pair of cardinals.  The catbirds were especially
>raucous and all were agitated. Thinking the neighbor cats were looking
>for lunch, I went to the rescue when a gorgeous sharp shinned hawk
>swooped so low over my head that he ruffled my hair; was he after me or
>the sparrows?!! Not a common sight in this neighborhood. As one poster
>(Silas Miller??) once wrote, he flew away "empty-taloned." Nancy
Goodrich
>
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Paula A. Gills, Director, Learning
Support, Norwich U.
(802) 485-2132
"Hope is the thing with feathers that
 perches in the soul" E. Dickinson