Dinner For One (Hawk)

This is a close up of a female red winged blackbird. Unfortunately, for her, our huge windows are very clean. We have had a number of females of this species and the female brown-headed cowbirds slam into our windows this year.

But, it isn't for naught! I place them each time in our yard in the same place, and our resident red shouldered hawk gobbles them up. So, my bird feeder is using more than seeds to feed the hungry this year.

I still cannot figure out why just those 2 species and just the females are fooled by the reflection of the sky in our windows. The titmice, cardinals, chickadees, blue jays, bluebirds, cedar waxwings, goldfinches, all kinds of sparrows, several species of finch, and the male brown headed cowbirds and red winged blackbirds never hit the glass. The white winged doves, who are not present this winter used to be the only suicides by window. Yet, the mourning doves are not fooled, and never hit the glass. Interesting ........