Urban Birder: Reflections, notes and an occasional rant from St. Louis

There were two Carolina Wrens foraging in the yard yesterday and again this morning.

A splash of bright red next to a small clump of contour feathers on the concrete slab yesterday afternoon was evidence of fresh carnage. A closer look at the feathers this morning showed that they had belonged to a pigeon.
I was thinking of taking down the feeders and not scattering seed. I can’t continue to [...]

Hawk
I forgot to mention the sub-adult Cooper’s Hawk that was in the yard on Sunday. It caught something that was hiding in the thicket where its […] conspecific found the House Sparrow two days later.
The yard squirrels seem to ignore these predators—not adaptive I think, as a desperate Cooper’s might opt for larger prey—some [...]

I was looking through past posts and saw that on September 24, 2007, I wrote about a Magnolia Warbler (female) I had seen in the yard, “That’s the yard’s fourth warbler species (the others are Tennessee, Mourning, and Common Yellowthroat).” On October 9, 2007, I recorded one Orange-crowned and one Nashville Warbler in the yard. [...]