Great photos everyone!
I am like Claudia in that the birds of prey are my favorites if I *had* to pick favorites. I love the blue jays too & don't think they are bullies either. I'm not crazy about the crows though. Maybe in smaller numbers but we have quite a flock of them here & they ARE thugs. They get so loud too ~~~ sometimes when they land in a tree close to the house & start up with all their jabber you can't even hear yourself think! They harass the Red Shouldered hawks to death too. Ha, ha, ha, ha, the other day we were sitting on the back porch & you know how paybacks are hell? We got to see payback in action.
All of a sudden we see these 2 large birds swooping down in front of our eyes. It's a crow with a red shouldered hawk behind. Man, that hawk was tailing the crow like nobody's business! Hawk had crow flying at full speed & hawk was so close on crow's tail I'm sure hawk could smell crow butt. Crow was attempting to dodge for all he was worth but there was no losing hawk. They swooped a couple feet from the ground *really* close to the screen & had to climb out of the dive FAST. Up & over the roof they went with hawk almost about to taste crow feathers.
Did our hearts good to see crow eating crow.
