Despite the drought, it’s been a good year for hawks with an explosion of rodents last spring and very little dry feed for them to hide in. This time of year, a wide variety of birds of prey are busy everywhere, some migrant like the Prairie and Peregrine Falcons and Harris Hawk, and many natives like the Cooper’s and Red Tails. Soon the Red Tail nest in the sycamore above will be completely hidden in leaves, along with other hawk nests now waiting in the tops of Blue Oaks.
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