With thanks to Lisa Souza for that title. Love that colorway.
Got up early this morning and maybe I surprised them.
There was a swoop and a flash of large tail and so I sat down to watch a moment. A finch had hit the window in a panic and was cowering in the elephant ears.
Another swoop back the other way. And then suddenly a third and out of here–followed by a wheeling around from out of nowhere (how did a big black thing like that hide?!) somewhere in the neighbor’s tall trees and then a second, likewise wingtip to wingtip ground to air and turning on a dime: two ravens, trying to steal from the Cooper’s hawk, who’d gotten a good head start on them.
They knew he’d had a successful hunt, even if I didn’t.
Coopernicus had staked out the birdfeeder and they had staked out him. Through those trees and away for all they were worth.