This is an aside from gardening. Birds are really part of the nature of gardening. Even though they, except for the hummingbird, are around me every day when I am in the garden. They may not use the flowers, but kill insects "good and bad", eat the fruit of the trees if they are lucky. Since wearing a hearing aid, I can hear small twitters, gentle little chirps, distant calls of a pair of hawks.
The hawks are here because a neighbor has racing pigeons. Pigeons are prey for hawks.......
One morning this week, while at breakfast, I noticed a big bird in the pine tree. I was a Cooper's Hawk. This is a large hawk and so beautiful.
It sat in the pine tree for a long time and then flew off. Gathering my camera and binoculars, I went outside to check if the hawk had gone to another area of the yard and heard a cry from a bird I had not heard before. We don't really have a large variety and I am familiar with most cries and songs.
This was new. If you have ever been fortunate enough to hear a hawk cry, you know what you are hearing the next time. It was a pair talking back and forth. Bet they were commenting on the fact the pigeons were still in their coop and that nosy human with the binoculars was out and about.
I couldn't get a picture of the bird in the tree, but I will not forget.
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