Backyard Bird Watchers

#801
#801
Enjoying the dawn cacophony of bird songs at dawn this morning, I am reminded of a time I visited my mother at her home on the Satilla River delta. My mother was in her early 80s then, and sleep was fitful for her. Normally, she slept in, rising from bed between 7:00 and 8:00am. This morning she was up at dawn, outside, having one of her “talks with God” (amusing to her neighbors). I joined her and commented on the bird songs. She replied, “It’s just God’s orchestra warming up.” This phrase has stuck with me through the years since.
 
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#802
#802
Was doing some work around the house today, and noticed a row of six quarter-sized divots in a pretty straight row across a few shingles on my roof. Typical asphalt shingles. Could it be from woodpeckers? We have a few that are active in the trees around the house, but I never would have thought they would damage shingles.
 
#803
#803
franklinpence said:
Was doing some work around the house today, and noticed a row of six quarter-sized divots in a pretty straight row across a few shingles on my roof. Typical asphalt shingles. Could it be from woodpeckers? We have a few that are active in the trees around the house, but I never would have thought they would damage shingles.
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They like to peck on the gutters at my house in the spring which I read was a mating call?
 
#805
#805
The pair of interloping red tails have displaced the red shouldered hawks which were attempting to nest at the same site for the third year (the one within a mile of my house as the hawk flies). I’ve heard their distinctive scree! call several times.
 
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#806
#806
Think I have a Cooper’s Hawk here this season. Haven’t seen it yet, but I hear it, and the Merlin app identified it.
 
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