Re: Hawk Attack

["Jim Bailey" <jim at bailey dot aros dot net>]

I would love to have a sharpy or two to eat up some of the large population 
of house sparrows populating my backyard over the past year or so :-(

> We have always had Sharp Shinned activity in our yard in the winter but 
> for some reason this year seems more active than ever. I got home from 
> work Friday at 3:30 p.m. just in time to watch a sharpie dive into my 
> shrubs and come out with a house sparrow I watched for about 30 minutes 
> while he plucked then ate the small bird changing position several times 
> from the ground to my Lilacs to the top of our swing set. My very noisy 
> backyard was dead silent the whole time. Yesterday I watched the Sharpy go 
> for the neighbors cat that was stalking my feeders. I was rooting for the 
> sharpie who dive bombed the cat twice but the cat was too big and he 
> settled for sparrows again instead.
>
> To have the whole food chain in my yard is a thrill if I could just get 
> rid of the introduced cats.
>
> Happy Birding
> Steve
>
>
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