Yesterday afternoon, I just happened to walk into the kitchen and look out the window in time to see our sharp-shinned hawk swoop around and land in our backyard on the pathway, sit there for a moment, later I realized he was "mantling" - and then lift off with a tiny varmint in his claws, it all happened so fast I did not have time to grab binoculars and look. It might have been a vole or mouse in his claws. Took place in a matter of seconds.
Earlier yesterday we saw our spruce grouse resident flying from one spruce to another, and eventually into the spruces right above our backdoor feeder. I saw the hairy woodpecker as well as the downy. Also saw a couple of juncos, and our old faithful chickadee troop as well as nuthatches, stellars' jays and gray jays.
Early this morning, we heard a big flock of geese flying over.
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