I’ve had Coopers and Sharp-shinned hawks work our feeders but mostly we have Red-shouldered hawks that work the doves over.My wife gets mad because they are eating our birds…but I remind her that the hawks have to eat too.Best thing I saw was a Red-tail hitting a squirrel. That will teach that tree rat to get on a bird feeder.
This one made me think about one of Larson’s old Far Side strips, where the pilot says to the co-pilot something like, “Saaaaaay, what are those mountain goats doing way up here in the clouds?”
they do look quite similar, but they’re different genuses (genii?). and in case anyone asks, japanese tits used to be a subspecies of great tits, but now they’re classified as just so-so tits…
sappha58 over 8 years ago
Outlines of a hawk or owl should do it.
PICTO over 8 years ago
You could take the glass out of the window,but then you would have tits in your house…
jreckard over 8 years ago
Right seat says “It’s the stress of the job. I can’t cope. I let a dumb bird fly.”
whiteheron over 8 years ago
I’ve had Coopers and Sharp-shinned hawks work our feeders but mostly we have Red-shouldered hawks that work the doves over.My wife gets mad because they are eating our birds…but I remind her that the hawks have to eat too.Best thing I saw was a Red-tail hitting a squirrel. That will teach that tree rat to get on a bird feeder.
ZorkArg over 8 years ago
OR, he could move the house into the flight path of Canada Geese and start a catering business!
Raider Red Premium Member over 8 years ago
This one made me think about one of Larson’s old Far Side strips, where the pilot says to the co-pilot something like, “Saaaaaay, what are those mountain goats doing way up here in the clouds?”
whiteheron over 8 years ago
That looks like a chickadee to me. Are your tit mice tufted?
neverenoughgold over 8 years ago
they do look quite similar, but they’re different genuses (genii?). and in case anyone asks, japanese tits used to be a subspecies of great tits, but now they’re classified as just so-so tits…
I prefer great tits, if I have a choice…