Birds

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Originally uploaded by Jonathansadler.

While we are on the subject birds, I saw some swallows today - the first I’ve seen this spring. And there is a pair of Cooper’s hawks nesting in one of the neighbor’s cottonwoods. While one bird sits in the nest, the other clucks at us from a different but nearby tree. That might be why some people call them chicken hawks.* And did you know that Sharp-shinned hawks used to be called pigeon hawks? And Peregrine falcons were sometimes called duck hawks.

*I realize it is probably because they eat chickens and not because they sound kind of like chickens.



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