[EBB Sightings] Backyard Drama

Hi, all.
  When I went out to our kitchen to investigate a
strange bumping noise as the light was just beginning
to fade last night, I was greeted with a flurry of
feathers outside on our deck. I then saw an adult
male?I think?Cooper?s hawk sitting on a low branch and
thought he had missed his prey. A few moments later,
however, he was on a large branch of our walnut tree,
vigorously tearing feathers and such from an adult
mourning dove.
  Talk about mixed feelings! I love raptors and know
they need to eat, but but the Coop's dinner may have
been one of the dove pair that raised a brood under
our eave earlier this spring and which we still enjoy
watching at the feeder, etc. I guess it's not fair to
the rock doves/pigeons around, but I found myself
asking why it couldn't have been one of them.
  I guess that's life in the wild--or whatever you'd
call my neck of North Oakland.
Cheers,
Alan Howe
  
  


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